Thank you Lindal. That link was very helpful for me. As for the simple table, I inspected the table and found only the two linked cylinders. When looking at each prim individually, they are both same path cut is 0 and 1 , taper is 0-0, slice 0-1and everything else is 0.
I just remade it again and compared the two. Both are exactly the same size, one is 2LI and the other is 9LI. I inspected both objects and found one difference. in the TMem tab, both numbers were the same for the root prim, but on the second prim, the numbers were very different. One read 768 and the other read 1152. I don't know how that happened or if that is even a factor since I made them both exactly the same way.
Anyhow, thank you for the help.
BTW, this was only done for practice, nothing important, just practice.