Sean,
Your original post contains factual errors, bad info. Someone not reading the entire thread would get bad info.
Courtney:
Someone reading my post would have had to read
past another post by someone else that states basically the same thing, albeit packaged in a more soft-shoe way. Go look.
It would be nice to know when, if ever, Saluc made a 5 oz. red circle cue ball. In my opinion a five ounce cue ball would be a gaff ball, not useable in competition. It is my understanding that the red and blue circle cue balls have always been very similar, but I'm really not sure about this. I am no expert!
A couple points about this:
1. It's well-known that Aramith (and Saluc) have changed ball formulations over the years in various products, and even yanked one product's availability for a good while (measles ball), reoffering it at a later date where the "second generation" of that ball even looked different.
2. Aramith and Saluc have always been close-to-the-vest when it comes to information about any changes in their products. Hence, this thread, and other threads like it over, what, the span of a decade? Have we ever had a definitive cue ball thread? No. Until someone from the Saluc factory chimes in, and shares information that has not been shared to the public previously, all we have is speculation in many cases, and documented weights / pictures in another -- information that is frozen in a moment of time when that particular product was purchased.
3. Your impression of the red and blue circle balls doesn't match other posters in this thread, or other cue ball threads, yet you target me to change *my* post. Why is that?
Dr Dave has a good reputation for science.
Yes, Dr. Dave *does* have a good reputation for science. However, I doubt Dr. Dave can supply "missing" information from a manufacturer, unless he'd been buying cue balls over a long period of time for a specific, targeted study. Dr. Dave tends to lean towards the "here and now" of how things perform. And if he did that study now, he might find that the current Saluc products may all perform basically the same -- which was discussed above re: standardization of product line.
Its your post, you can do as you see fit!
Courtney
It's interesting that you are fixated with the information about specifically the red circle ball. You seem to have pain with the "an ounce less" aspect of that one bullet item. I want to comply with correcting any erroneous information from my side. Honest. As mentioned, I do have an Aramith red circle ball that *is* approximately an ounce less than the rest of the object balls. You seem to hint at using Searches which may turn up my post
(vs. reading down through the thread, "stopping" at my post and not going further -- which you did say), searches of which will turn up the other posts in this thread and others.
However, in the spirit of making sure as many people are happy with [what I intend to be] helpful efforts here, I've fixed the wording to soft-shoe it a bit, only in that area where you're fixated. I'm not going to fix my post to include all the add-on information that came out for the other cue ball products, e.g. the measles ball and its changes, because that unfairly makes
my post the collector of all this dynamic cue ball information, and my being put on the hook to have to maintain it going forward. If I'm going to do that, I'd want to make a dedicated cue ball thread where post #1 is the information collection and maintenance point (as is the practice here on AZB), putting it on the Main forum, not here in the 14.1 forum. At some point, I'll do that. The original intent of my post, however, was just to quickly share some information I know, not be "the" de-facto encyclopedic cue ball reference.
I do appreciate your concern about correct information, though. Believe me, I want to do my part.
-Sean
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