How To Repair Bumper Pool Posts

Professional Bumper Puddle Upgrade Kit

With B&GC's, we enjoy the reputation of edifice the finest bumper puddle table in the earth, and to be off-white, we deserve it. Nosotros've spent two decades building, applied science, testing and upgrading virtually every aspect of the game. While I strongly encourage yous to buy our Maverick bumper pool, the reality is, many clubs simply tin can't afford it.

I've been doing this for a long time and I know many of you lot personally. In our conversations you lot've shared the numerous economic challenges that you face, and I completely concord that making sure the kids have something to eat, or a performance computer lab is vastly more than important than a new bumper puddle table. I also understand that many of you lot get games donated and I recall information technology'south great that people recognize your needs. Some of the games, when they break, y'all can throw out, while others (like pool tables) tin can concluding y'all a long time. Just bumper pool falls into its ain course and hither'due south why…

Behind Carpet Ball, bumper pool is probably the second or third about popular game you lot have. It'due south a not bad game for kids because it combines math (angles/caroms) requires strategic thinking (offense/defense) and is an piece of cake introduction in learning how to utilise a cue stick. Information technology's as well easy to acquire and fun to play. However, bumper pool has inherent bug that are not but annoying merely expensive and our upgrade kit eliminates these problems.

Problem - Bumper Posts

All bumper posts are made of either plastic, wood or cheap hollow metallic. All have a very modest threaded metallic rod that drops down through the slate and is then attached by a modest nut/washer. You adhere the safe band by sliding it over the acme of the bumper mail.

The main complaint is that the kids peel off the safe rings, play ring Frisbee or as one manager told me, flushed downwards and clogged upwards the toilet. The kids then burn down balls into the unprotected posts and intermission them or the threaded rod snaps. And, many times, the post simply comes loose and the kids take them off. Dozens of directors accept complained to me that they accept to spend time replacing and inventorying rubber rings or spend a lot of time trying to observe the same type of replacement post. It really isn't the price of the replacement parts, it's the constant bedevilment of having to practise so.

Solution - Our Exclusive Solid Steel Posts

We resolved all of these problems past making our own posts. Each post is solid steel with a 3/8" threaded rod that is welded to the base. We so utilise a compression washer which never comes loose and in the unlikely event that it does, we accept a metallic ring that attaches to the bottom of the post which makes it nearly incommunicable to remove the post. All of this means that you should never take to replace a postal service, but here's the best part. Since we manufacturer our ain posts, nosotros've increased the bore of the mushroom top so the only way to attach a safety band is to slide it on from the bottom of the post. By making this change, it makes it impossible to remove the safety ring without removing the entire post. This works and so well, a gorilla couldn't pare these rings off. This unit eliminates all of the aggravation and costs associated with the posts. Simply now the all-time part.

Problem - Bumper Post Protective Plastic Rings

On a bumper puddle table, at the end of each terminate is a pigsty that the balls drop through. When covering a slate, the fabric higher up the pigsty must be cut into minor "5" shaped pieces (called "hole tabs") in order to allow the brawl to drop. To protect the cut tabs, a pocket-size plastic ring is pounded downwards into the hole with the hope that the pressure of the ring against the cloth tabs will hold it in place. It doesn't work! On a home table this plastic cup works fine, unfortunately non in a B&GC environment. The kids tin either reach down and pull the ring out, or the more resourceful ones use a cue and pry it out. Either mode, with the plastic ring removed, the fun really starts. The kids now have admission to the cut tabs of cloth and they take hold of the tabs and pull on them which tears the material out onto the playfield. At this point, the game is essentially useless until it is recovered, at your expense. Just it gets even better. At present, you have to pay $200 - $350 to get the game re-covered. The billiard mechanic puts on a new textile, cuts the textile tabs, replaces the missing band with a new ane and out the door. Some fourth dimension later, the kids remove the new ring, grabs the tabs and tears the material. It never ends!

Solution - PermaCup ®

We have likewise struggled with this trouble for years. For a while we idea we had the respond and while it was better than the plastic cup, information technology still didn't resolve the problem permanently. Until we engineered our new PermaCup™

Our PermaCup™ consists of two metallic pieces: a cup and flat base of operations. The cup slides down through the hole and the metallic base slides onto a grove in the cup which holds information technology in place. The base is then bolted to the game past the two posts on either side of the pigsty. This unit makes it impossible to get access to the textile tabs which means no more ripped cloth and no more than expense.

The Upgrade Kit

The entire kit consists of (12) of our solid steel bumper posts. Each post has a safety ring, compression washer and anti-theft rings along with one set of our exclusive PermaCups™. The kit also contains a complete set (bed/rail) of high quality cloth in B&GC blue along with a box of chalk. Likewise included is a 3/eight masonry bit, pattern for cutting fabric tabs, razor blades, mucilage, assorted skid on tips (for cues) and easy to follow instructions. Unless you have a staff person who is proficient in roofing tables, we suggest you leave the recovering of the tabular array to a professional person billiard mechanic. However, if your table doesn't need to be recovered, the actual upgrade of replacing bumper posts and our PermaCup™ can easily be accomplished by nearly any staff person and the entire process volition take well-nigh ½ hour.

Cost

The toll for the unabridged upgrade package is $595.00. To some, this might seem loftier, but in reality, it's practically gratis.

Payback

It is not very often that annihilation we buy has a definable payback, ordinarily it is just an expense, but our upgrade kit pays for itself in many means.

Aggravation - I ran into a manager at a show a eight years agone and he told me that he had 4 bumper pool tables and his kids loved the game, simply because he was constantly replacing posts/rings or recovering the games, he finally locked them upward in a storage room. This kit eliminates all of the frustration.

Recover Costs - Under normal circumstances, the cloth on a bumper puddle table should last somewhere around five-7 years. Just, nosotros all know that you recover your game a lot more oftentimes than that. I spoke to a managing director at your almanac briefing and she told me that she recovers her bumper pool tables every year. Non because the cloth was worn out, but because of the ripped textile. I call up she told me she paid around $250 - $300 per table. (As a pocket-sized annotation, if you lot bring in a billiard mechanic to recover your puddle tables at the same time, you should spend no more than than $200 for them to recover your bumper pool table. Anything more than than that, they are taking advantage of yous). With our upgrade kit, it doesn't take more than a couple of recoveries and it has paid for itself. Afterward that, it saves yous money. But, information technology even gets better!

Donated Games - As I mentioned earlier, all (non-Ruxton) bumper puddle tables take these problems, even so chosen commercial games. I besides addressed the issue of donated games and every bit much as I feel that many of you should purchase our Ruxton Maverick, for many of you, this just isn't an choice. The typical bumper pool game people donate is a standard home slate game. We all know, these games aren't going to concluding forever in a club surround, but, you lot're non paying for it either (except to get it recovered every year or then). Yet, when your game finally wears out, yous can but remove the metallic posts and PermaCups ™ from the one-time game, and transfer them to your new donated one. You have now protected yourself from all of the unnecessary recovery costs and the great thing is, our parts will never wear out. Over the lifetime of the society, by rotating these parts from game to game, yous will salvage thousands of dollars. This is what I mean by gratuitous.

Conclusion

When I first took on the claiming of building games for B&GC's, my master goal was to get you off of the "purchase, repair, supplant" merry go round. It has been a long exhausted and very expensive journeying but with the introduction of our new PermaCup™ and out Professional person Upgrade Kit, by almost whatsoever metric, I have finally accomplished what I set out to accomplish more than than two decades ago. Nosotros make swell puddle tables, but to exist fair, so practise others. However, our Ruxton Maverick bumper puddle and our 20th Ceremony Carpet Brawl are without question the finest games in the world.

Finally, I love building games and the challenge of edifice the best games is what gets me up in the morning. Over fourth dimension, and as new data comes in, I'll make additional changes, and if that costs more than money, I'll simply raise the price. One matter I take learned over the years, is that y'all cannot build world class games for a little money. I (and you) wish we could but nosotros all know it can't be done. Just my commitment to you will never change, and to be fair to me and my business, in the world of game room games, I really am the only visitor on the planet that cares about y'all.

To social club or whatsoever questions, please call me at 608-423-3000.

Thank you,

Rick Ruxton