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First problem with a Bulletproof Recoil tip?

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SeniorTom said:
My experience with A bulletproof Soft synthetic tip:
1) It plays as well as a leather tip, in my opinion. Miscues are no different, neither is drawing the ball or following the ball, those tasks all work very good.
2) the synthetic tip has a ringing sound when striking the cue ball as opposed to the flat thud sound of a leather tip that people are so used to. It's a bit difficult for some to get past, but the sound doesn't bother me.
3) now this is one issue I don't like because it ruins the real reason I put the synthetic tip on, and that is mushrooming. I couldn't believe it when I rolled my fingers over the tip and felt the mushrooming that had occurred. I have only used the tip for about 6 months, and I measured it with calipers. The difference was approximately .010", but nonetheless it was mushrooming a bit. The main reason I went and tried a synthetic tip was to avoid mushrooming with a soft tip, but I was disappointed when I could not only feel the mushrooming, but measure it with the calipers as well. I don't plan on taking the tip off my cue, I still like the tip, but it does mushroom a bit when using at least the soft Bulletproof tip.
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I'm using the hard tip so no mushrooming at all, I was using hard layered leather tips before using the Bulletproof Recoil tip, a Tippik is not a good tool for that kind of tip in my opinion so I was hesitant to use one on the Recoil tip, after shaping my tip to a proper nickel radius I figured what do I have to lose in trying it, so I dug it out of my tip tools I don't use anymore, tapped my tip and I have put over 10 hours of actual practice hitting with it and it still feels perfect, I'm shocked at how good it feels with zero maintenance, if you have a Recoil tip and haven't tried this give it a shot.
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Predator Revo tip pad

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skor said:
When I came to cut the tip off, I've placed the knife blade at the center of the clear pad of the tip, and when starting to add pressure, it just popped off the plate with no glue residue on the plate what so ever. I think that the plate material is not bonding well to glue,
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Another explanation for why gluing the Kamui clear tip to the Revo vault plate fails is that you need to glue the vault plate to a fabric-like material instead of gluing the hard-plastic clear Kamui clear pad. I presume Revo’s silencer pad (or the replacement Mezz IG tip plate) are fabric-like materials and not the hard-plastic Kamui clear pad. I find the same gluing problem with the Rhino Time Crystal clear-plastic tip to the Rhino ferrule. The trick for this amateur is not to glue hard plastic to the ferrule/vault plate; use a pad whether silencer/Mezz IG plate/$1 pad.

Is the better sound only with the Mezz IG tip plate/pad? Or does Revo's silencer/pad sound good, too?

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Who is the best player of the last 40 years not to win a major event?

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SBC said:
Yeah....he didn't travel as much as he could. Plus living in Shane's shadow.

If pool paid better, he would have stayed it, improved more and been a real force.
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he is still in his 30s- I feel like Dechaine and Bergman could still compete with anyone if they chose to be fully dedicated to pool, but I guess they don't want to compete full time for different reasons- travel, money
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Who is the best player of the last 40 years not to win a major event?

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garczar said:
Someone mentioned Dechaine and i'd agree there. When in-gear he is as good as anyone that's ever played the game. Various circumstances, like life and his attitude, got in the way. Had his planets lined-up a lil better he could have won anything.
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Yeah....he didn't travel as much as he could. Plus living in Shane's shadow.

If pool paid better, he would have stayed it, improved more and been a real force.
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