How To Clean Bottoms Of Titanium Shuffleboard Pucks

After Dave and Sarah installed their basement shuffleboard using Armstrong's kit, I heard from Guy — whose time-capsule homehas been featured on the blog — that he recently painted a shuffleboard on his concrete basement floor. I am then inspired! Read on to learn how he did it, step-by-step:

Guy writes:

Pam-
Below is the info and pics of my basement shuffleboard we talked well-nigh last month. My whole extended family has been bitten by the shuffleboard issues and we have even had a few tournaments! I am and so glad you introduced me to the idea of basement shuffleboard!
-Guy

Instructions? With photos all signed sealed and delivered? You are on the weblog, again, Guy! Here are his step by steps:

I went ahead and painted my basement shuffleboard courtroom this weekend:

For anyone else who wants to attempt and make 1 this way, here is how I did it:
Step ane: I marked out a large rectangle on the floor with painters tape. I painted it with some regular pigment I had leftover:

Pace 2: I marked out the scoring areas with tape. I used an image of a court as a guide. This was much easier than I idea it would be. I am sure the dimensions are not perfect, just this is for fun with friends – not the Olympics.

Because my basement is narrow on the one side (due to an office and the water heater & airconditioner unit) I only planned on putting a starting line on that side to shoot the shuffleboard pucks to the scoring area (on the more open up area.)

However the first scoring zone was and so like shooting fish in a barrel to mark I idea I would make one on each side (even though nosotros yet but shoot from that side.)
I idea for decorative reasons it looked amend to have both scoring triangles.
Step 3: I got another leftover white paint and painted the triangles. The number and letter stencils were available at Home Depot.

Step 4: THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT STEP. I bought some concrete sealer at Domicile Depot and "painted the court with it." Its a milky substance that dries articulate. I got the "wet look" high gloss version. Without this stuff the pigment would easily scratch off when you play shuffleboard.

I put downward 3 coats of sealer and if I outset to run across whatsoever wear in information technology in the future I will re-apply.

I am And then INTO this idea. Our basement (which is basically the laundry room and storage place of doom) has a physical floor. I am And then GOING TO Practise THIS. I fifty-fifty accept a vintage shuffleboard gear up with pusher-thingies and biscuits (yes, that's what the puck is called) already. Picked it upward at an manor sale gosh knows where. I am telling you, my treasure breast is total full full. Thank you, Guy! So, I also asked Guy how he got the measurements, and he says:

Wikipedia listed the standard size at 39′ x6′ and then they had all of the other measurements and a pretty good diagram. So what I did was figure out how much room I had and then I started trying to mathematically make up one's mind how long things should be based on the space I had.

I experimented with a chalk outline and it worked out nicely.

The whole thing was surprisingly simple. I actually expected information technology to await crooked and silly and I was amazed at how "professional person" it looked.

BTW, I really relish your blog. Information technology is the very first site I check in the morning. You may think that I constitute your web log when researching what to practise with my 1964 home. I bought the house because it looked 'dated' (I like the time sheathing feeling) and then I was really feeling force per unit area to "update" it from everyone I knew.

Now I show everyone that enters the post you wrote so they all seem to "get" what I like about the business firm. I programme to frame that post and hang it in the hallway. I will send you a movie when I do.

Thank you,

Guy

You lot are the sweetest, Guy, and be certain to tell Rosanna I said that!

Links:

Wikipedia on shuffleboard, including: "During World War Two shuffleboard came into its own. The intrinsic entreatment of the game – skill, diversity, competitiveness, availability to immature and old, strong and disabled, the serious game, the fun game – offered the kind of release needed in those turbulent years. Hollywood climbed on the shuffleboard bandwagon and took information technology upward, at first as a source of good publicity. So when the pin-upwards girls and bandleaders and actors discovered they really liked the game, shuffleboards found their mode into the studios and homes of the stars. People similar Betty Grable, Harry James, Merv Griffin, Alan Ladd all had their own shuffleboards. The game grew to its greatest height in the 1950s. Most major shuffleboard manufactures sponsored nationwide shuffleboard tournaments. These were the biggest tournaments ever held: one had 576 teams participating."