ldmitchell said:

I install tips. For most tips, I sand them flat before installing.
The Kamui Clear, Rhino Time Crystal and Caiden Fighter have flat glueing surfaces that install well without any sanding.
Are there other brands out there that don’t require sanding to be flat?
Leonard

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Not to be argumentative but I even sand the Kamui Clear. They are not flat. The surface is concave. I know they say you don't have to but you really should. It's the one tip out of 50 or so that popped off on me.

If you want to avoid problems, it's best to sand them all, a light sanding will show if they are flat or not.

I am reluctant to broach the subject, and I certainly do not mean to be negative or derisive, but here goes . . . I came up and live in a very straight pool world, perhaps I should more accurately say "in a very straight world". The world has certainly changed, but not my pool hall world. I don't ever recall seeing an identifiable or "out" gay person in a pool hall, and I cannot come up with a reason except the pool world is so macho it is incapable of tolerating gay folks. What do y'all think?

Rackaday said:

Do you know which hardness level you prefer? Many of these tips are marketed as S/M/H, but another question might be which tips are consistent? I believe this requires a durometer to even get close to accurate on hardness testing. I would bet a bunch of people have a good experience with one brand tip, but the next time the buy one, they have no idea if the hardness is less than or greater than the previous tip.

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I have randomly sampled my tips with a durometer and while they technically aren't defined s/m/h but are rather color coded to how hard they are. Silver, Blue, Green, Red. It would be overly cumbersome to test every single tip with a durometer.

iusedtoberich said:

Do you boys think we will ever hear from the player, the ref at the table, or Marcel, from their own mouths?

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I thought Karl was suggesting (in response to my post in the MR discussion forum) that we would hear from Marcel, but I wasn’t watching earlier today to see it (I assume someone would have posted about though).

In the past when Dr Dave has made and posted videos about what he thinks are bad calls Marcel has responded to some on Facebook. Maybe we need [mention]Dr Dave [/mention] to do a video to get a response?

By the way, I think it’s Marcel who should be addressing this, not the local ref who made the call. Marcel is the head referee and this is part of his job IMO.