Alternative Cheaper Table Heating idea?

[vmax]

Beware of drying out the timber of the table as wood warps when it loses moisture and you could end up with a table that can't be levelled.
Oil the table all over, leave for 48 hours and then varnish the table to seal in the moisture, leave again for 48 hours and direct any heat only at the slate bed, about 20 degrees C should be enough to warm the cloth and evaporate any moisture it picks up from the atmosphere in the room, which should be warm and well ventilated.

Balls can be warmed also as this increases their elasticity and response, lie them out on top of the radiator for 10 minutes before play, turning 180 degrees after 5 minutes, but no basting

[inevermissblue]

Too much ambiguity here! Conflicting views all round.

[philip in china]

Certainly the wood cracking or warping due to changes in humidity is a very real one. Fortunately I have a curatrix who monitors such things. I have a hygrometer in my snooker room.

Yet another reason for getting a prewar mahogany table!

[djax]

I'm left wondering, just how quick we need a table to be? This time of the year my room stays around 15c the club slightly warmer. After years of playing, I find with the latest cloths, Northern Rubber, steel rail cushions and TC balls I am hitting the cue ball softer then ever. Resulting in reaction of the cue ball that wasn't possible 20 years ago.

[philip in china]

I was clicking through a few threads when I had a thought on this one.

Be careful and follow the advice of the gurus- Geoff and others similar. If you get it wrong and ruin the slates your Cheaper" form of heating might end up being extremely expensive.

[JONKAR]

Hello
I have a full size snooker table and I made six heating plates for the table. each plate has a 10 m coil of carbon fiber heating cable (the total is 60 m). the heating cables are contrecoller by a thermostat which cuts the current when the temperature exceeds certain degree.
- 10 m of cable costs: 4 euros so total 24 euro see the link (https://fr.aliexpress.com/item/Nouve...6054449d13ea-0)

- the price of the thermostat is 4 euros, see the link (https://fr.aliexpress.com/item/10A-1...9ca5980c53a9-2)

so the snooker heating system price is 28 euros
the plates used are 3mm wooden plates.
it works perfectly since a year and a half.

enjoy it

[EvilDealer]

Hello
I have a full size snooker table and I made six heating plates for the table. each plate has a 10 m coil of carbon fiber heating cable (the total is 60 m). the heating cables are contrecoller by a thermostat which cuts the current when the temperature exceeds certain degree.
- 10 m of cable costs: 4 euros so total 24 euro see the link (https://fr.aliexpress.com/item/Nouve...6054449d13ea-0)

- the price of the thermostat is 4 euros, see the link (https://fr.aliexpress.com/item/10A-1...9ca5980c53a9-2)

so the snooker heating system price is 28 euros
the plates used are 3mm wooden plates.
it works perfectly since a year and a half.

enjoy it

I would be interested to see a picture of this. Do you not need a thermostat for every 10m cable?
where do you lie the cable? on top?

[Hotwire147]

I have just opened a new thread here introducing my hotwire system to a wider audience having mainly fitted systems for top professionals untill now. How much should a cheaper alternative be? To have Hotwire fitted, does not cost much more than having a table recovered and lasts a lot longer than a cloth.