Review on Experience Professional Play With STIGA STS 185 Table Tennis Table by Josh Schweitzer

It takes some time to put together but it is well designed, well constructed, everything goes together as it should, and it's very clever -- the table folds up and opens down very easily. The net is well designed. Putting it together requires some work but it's all solid and made right.I have two comments to help people put it together -- these really should be mentioned in the instructions: First, take note that there are bolts of different sizes that look similar. They are numbered in the hardware list and the instructions mention the correct numbers to use, but unless you take special note of the differences you might miss it as I did and at the end I had to remove and replace a few longer bolts with shorter ones in order to put together the final support. Not a big problem but if they could specifically call your attention to it in the instructions, especially the first time you need one of the bolts, it would be helpful.The other thing that should be in the instructions -- the metal strut has an indentation in one side to fit a nut later on. If the indentation is placed toward the inside of the table, the spacer on the other side lays in better. It still works the other way, but there's no reason they couldn't mention this in the instructions.Weight was 210lbs plus 60lbs for palette, so 270 off the truck. Some of weight is for protective wood all around it, and some for the metal struts, legs, etc., so you can take it all apart and carry the two table halves separately to where you need them. Still, it's pretty heavy so you need 2 or 3 people for handling the tables.Well worth it all! Great table for both regular play and for solo practice with one table up.