to be some things that you're going to need you get these tools together most of them can be found laying around the house first you're going to need a drill with sockets and more than likely a wrench some ratchet wrenches would help like 14 millimeter 15 millimeter and just have a variety that way you you're covering all your bases you'll want to staple puller most pool tables have a staple bed and
this makes life easy pulling those staples if you don't have a staple puller then what you can use is a flathead screwdriver you'll want a flathead bit a Phillips head bit many times both of those are used during the dismantle of a pool table you want some moving blankets to be able to wrap up the individual pieces to protect them during shipping whether the table is going into another state or you
know just down the street we're going to have a box to collect your hardware and your accessories to keep everything together you don't want to lose any of that hardware you're also going to want a marker this way you can mark the table as you're taking it apart especially the positioning of the slate this makes life easier when you go to do the rebuild or if you're going to have a professional installer
they still need to know how the slate was positioned on the table originally the first step in dismantling a game style pool table is we want to remove these pockets you'll find a tack on either side of the pocket right behind the cushion sometimes a Philips head screw is used at any rate you'll want to remove those you may have a ball return system on your table if that's the case you'll go ahead and remove that before you remove the pocket or the gulley boot squeeze the top and push it
down underneath the apron and that's how you remove a pocket Eric's going to remove the tax so they don't scrape anything during the move it's going to do that to all six pockets the next step is going to be removing our rail bolts where we're going to lay down underneath the table we're using a fourteen millimeter socket we're going to remove three rail bolts per rail don't confuse your rail bolts
with the bolts next to it that holds the apron on then they're different size sockets so it'll be hard to mess that up again you have three bolts per rail if all your hardware is present with the table you'll end up with 18 of these bolts after remove the bolts you want to keep all your hardware together it's a good idea to put them in a baggie if we need to mark where they came from when you go to do the rebuild and we're also after the pockets are removed we're going to go around the entire table removing all of the rail bolts putting them in our bag to get ready to remove the rail system carefully lift the rail system off the table and turn it over carefully lay it back down on top of the pool table nice and secure that makes a good workbench next we're going to remove the corner castings by
taking off these two brackets there's two brackets per corner casting you want to use a flathead bit for for these after that we're going to show you how to remove these bolts that hold on the apron system so go ahead and get your drill with your flathead bit you can loosen these brackets or you can go ahead and take them all the way off I like to take them all the way off it just makes life easier just keep up with your hardware to keep everything together now there's a lot of pressure holding this first corner casting on so once you get those brackets off go ahead and move to your next corner piece and
when you're taking your corner pieces off you'll want to mark the different ends top and bottom because they're different and it makes a difference when you go to do the rebuild the top is curved and the bottom is flat and again that makes a difference you don't have to mark which corner the piece came off of because they're Universal in that aspect so keep all your hardware together it's going to make your life the more organized you are the easier it's going to be when you go to rebuild your table we're going to move on to the third corner miter and once that's loose then the pressure is
taken off for the first one and you can go ahead and pop that off Erik's going to give it just a little bump and there you go after you've removed your corner miters the next step is to remove the apron you're going to detach the apron from the rails you're going to have four aprons keep your hands on it so when the last bolt comes out of that particular apron it doesn't fall onto the floor and then just work your way around the table and keep your hardware in a baggie again you can mark the hardware so you know where it came out of these bolts that come out of the aprons they look similar to your rail
bolts so it might be a good idea to go ahead and mark those so you don't get them confused the apron bolts are not quite as long as your rail bolts so so once you've got all of your aprons off you want to wrap them up nice and neat for shipping or first storage and then next we're going to take off the pockets Eric has used the 14 millimeter ratchet wrench to break those loose so I can continue on the table he's going to loosen those by hand again you have two 14 millimeter bolts per pocket casting on the Middle's there's not enough room to get your ratchet around that bolt so I use the open end face of my of my wrench I'm gonna get those broken loose and I'm going to move on of course to per just
showing you where those are and then once you get all of these taken off you put the corner pieces in your box and your rails will get wrapped in blankets and we're going to fit these back in so they don't get lost and once you get those screwed in there and you just continue that on all six pocket castings put your corner castings in your box so they don't get lost and then clear your workspace you can bring in your blankets and wrap them up three rails per blanket once you get done with that we're ready to move on to pulling the staples from the bed getting ready to pull the staples out of the staple
bed you want your staple puller a good pair of needlenose pliers and we like using this magnetic bowl to catch the staples you don't want somebody stepping on one if it won't falls on the floor when you're pulling your staples put the corner of the staple puller underneath the staple and pry back sometimes you can give it a little twist and that staple will come out in one shot without any extra steps if you have trouble twisting it and the staple won't come out like that one did then just go ahead and pop one side of all your staples and then you can come back with your pliers and then pull the staple you want
to get a firm grip on that guy and give your pliers a little twist and the staples come right out and now that you know how to pull staples it's time to get busy pulling all the staples go all the way around the table each pocket all the way around and my camera died so what you're missing from the video I go all the way around the table making sure every staple is removed if there's a row of staples beneath there you need to remove those as well then you shake out the felt fold it up nice and neat and put it in a bag that keeps it separate from the other hardware you don't want that Hardware poking holes in your felt sometimes you know more expensive like worsted cloth Simonis can run up to 500 bucks that put on your table so you definitely want to take care of that and now we're ready to move on to
removing the slate screws belt is removed you'll see your slave screws there about four in each piece of slate some models have more which this one does go ahead and pull those it's going to allow you to pull the slate off of the cabinet remove the rest of the slate screws and get ready to mark the slate now you want to mark your slate mark the end piece one the middle piece two and then your other in piece 3 this is the order they go on the table and also you're going to pull back each in piece and you want to keep the middle piece where it is without moving it because we're going to make a mark on
the table and on the slate and this tells us where the position is so when we go to rebuild it our slate screws line back up now I want to mark a 1 on the cabinet and on the other end we're going to do the same thing this particular kind of slate is pinned so it's a little a little tough getting that separated but once you have that separate you'll take a moment and make the same kind of mark on the opposite side of the table that line tells you where it sits and you can line up those hash marks number it and you're done okay so for the rest of the video I'm just going to go ahead and go through it stack your
slate off and because this steps are necessary I'm not I'm just kind of going through it this is the dismantle fold this mantle of the base go ahead and wrap them all everything all up pack it away and that's how you do it you want to see that again use unwrap it put all these things on there at this point this bottom part of the base is not very heavy at all your frame they're solid mahogany you don't need to wrap that in any kind of blankets and this my friends is how you dismantle a game style pool table
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