Building a table.

[dirtyD]

I got an old junk table, and I wanted to put on a new top. Need help with what kind of paint and any specs I'm forgetting.

 

[yoass]

This thread is all I managed to dig up when searching for some guidance on table top paints.

I know the table "(..) playing surface shall be uniformly dark coloured and matt, but with a white side line, 2cm wide, along each 2.74m edge and a white end line, 2cm wide, along each 1.525m edge."

Now I'm about to restore our tables. Dents and scratches to repair, mostly. I plan to fill up damaged areas with woodfiller, polish gently, and then either touch up the restored spots or paint the entire table.

My searches have borne little fruit. Apparently, a Stiga Touch-Up Paint "Pen" (not my quotes) exists; a single shop has it, and it's expensive and available in green and blue -- but there's green and green, and blue and blue, of course.

Some DIY forums write about using "alkyd, or chalkboard, paint for the surface" of BYO ping pong tables. I suspect chalkboard paint might just be too grippy, but then again, a matt varnish might solve that problem.

Alkyd paint might be the way to go. Experiences in this area, anybody?

 

[JulianTT]

Lookup the ITTF handbook. The only specs that I can think of are the dimensions, marking and how much the ball should bounce when dropped from a certain height. I don't think the paint will influence the bounce much, so pretty much anything that makes sense should work.

Julian

 

[yoass]

I just went to ye olde locale painte shoppe, borrowed their colour meter and had them mix me some matt alkyd paint (Wijzonol) matching the existing colour, which in the Sikkens colour coding is N8.10.20. I'll try to use that to touch up the filled-in pits first, and see how that looks.

 

[LucasMcCaine]

keep us posted Yoass ,sounds interesting ,since my table is beginning to show signs of wear and tear ,