Topic: Slippery play field..

[papabear]

Hi all,

Ive got an enquiry.. My issue is with slippery playfields. I do maintenance/ cleaning work on the foosball tables weekly. We use wet cloth to clean it. The tables are around 2yrs old. Changing new balls will give it some "tackiness" for a couple of weeks, after that, it will be slippery to play again.

Any one has a solution?..

[marty]

what type of table  if not tornado i read on one of these forms where
a guy sand papered the table then when over it with steel wool what
thought was a good idea

[Rocker]

That was me.  This works great, but go easy on it and don't use anything rougher than 220.  Then some 000 steel wool to buff it a little will make the playing surface MUCH more playable.  You don't want to have any sanding marks.  When I did it, I sanded to roughly mimic the surface of the Tornado.  If it's a Tornado or equivalent (oooo, is there an equivalent?) I wouldn't mess with it at all.  Just leave it and maybe clean and rough up the balls, so to speak, if they're that bad. 

[papabear]

yeah.. its Tornado.. we have thought of "spraying" the 3M adhesive.. its like a temporary solution. We have changed new balls to accomodate the slippery nature of the current tables..

I guess the best solution is to change the playfied.. it would be the ideal answer i guess..

Ermm.. what about "chipped/cracked goal posts?.. any cool solution for it?..