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Shoot a Million Balls? Give me a break.

worktheknight
I am very very far from being an elite player, have had my moments and practice about three hours a week.
I started in 1986, had two old grocery counters and since then have practiced bowlliards about 95% of the time,
I am a little over 39,000 made balls with that game. I thought I was doing well, lol, I started doing this just to see
how long it would take me to pay for my table. Games at bars cost .25 cents to .50 back then. Best to all who can
practice so much more than I could think of doing. Awesome.
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Pocket Facings for Olhausen

dr_dave
rexus31 said:
The "Olhausen Rattle" will not be fixed by just replacing the facings, regardless of what you want to tell yourself. The angle of the pocket openings needs to be reduced. There are two ways to fix this.

1. Subrail extensions, pockets recut to correct angles and desired size, new cushions and facings installed
2. Quarter inch facings installed and pocket angles altered by sanding the facings down to the correct angle with a sanding disk on a table saw

I would not do Option 1 on an 8' Olhausen home table unless you have the skillset and tools to do it yourself. The cost to have it done by a pro will be more than the table is worth. Option 2 was executed by a forum member (can't recall who) and he reported favorable results; not as good as Option 1, but an improvement. Again, this may cost more than the table is worth to have a pro do it, if you can find someone willing to do it as it's not a normal service provided by most.

You can go through the expense of having someone change the facings and recover the rails but you will be left with what you started out with. 60 Durometer 3/16" facings are standard and I'd be surprised if you didn't already have those installed on your table.
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Option 3: Have new rails made with the pockets cut to the desired specs. This is what I did to solve the “Olhausen Rattle” problem:

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WNT Hanoi Open 2025, Vietnam, Oct 7-12

ctran
sjm said:
In real time, I must concede that it was not an easy call to make. With video review, however, I thought the call was so obvious they would call a foul within ten seconds. No way the nine travels that far on a good hit of the four ball. I can only wonder what their reasoning was.
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I believe the ref could not tell, so they treated it as if the cue ball hit both the 4 and 9 at the same time, or gave the shooter benefit of the doubt
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WNT Hanoi Open 2025, Vietnam, Oct 7-12

sjm
jsp said:
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1.4M views · 7.6K reactions | Well, well, well.... correct call or not...? 👀 Drama late in the quarter-final between Robbie Capito and Max Lechner, as the hit on the 4-ball was deemed legal... #WNT | #HanoiOpenPool 🇻🇳 | Matchroom Pool

Well, well, well.... correct call or not...? 👀 Drama late in the quarter-final between Robbie Capito and Max Lechner, as the hit on the 4-ball was deemed legal... #WNT | #HanoiOpenPool 🇻🇳
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How can the ref(s) make this terrible call? Referee Pool Physics 101. There is no way the CB would deviate to the left like that if it hit the 4-ball first and the 9-ball second. Lechner got robbed.
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In real time, I must concede that it was not an easy call to make. With video review, however, I thought the call was so obvious they would call a foul within ten seconds. No way the nine travels that far on a good hit of the four ball. I can only wonder what their reasoning was.

I've noted before on this forum that one pool refereeing skill needed that has little application to refereeing snooker is the ability to call close hits. The situation nearly never comes up in snooker, but it comes up a lot in pool.
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Original Balabushka bumper

Chopdoc
middleofnowhere said:
I foolishly took the bumper off this cue
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:eek:

OMG...that made me a little sad.

The brown KU bumper on my Joss is a bit worn and banged up, but I have an NOS replacement for it if I ever get the cue refinished.

I remember I talked to Dan Janes around 1991. I was ordering a cue. I also ordered some other stuff. When I asked about a bumper he asked: "Brown or black?" So, they still had them and it was just a matter of picking which one you wanted. I think I still have order forms from that time that had the brown bumpers on them too.
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Funny pic/gif thread...

Frosty
Patrick Johnson said:
Only for phobes.
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You seem at a loss for the meaning of that word as well. While all the rejects from the island of misfit toys LOVE to incorrectly add the word “phobe” to what ever form of deviancy they are a slave to in describing others that won’t validate them. The real truth is, the word “phobe” indicates a fear of something, no one is afraid of those deviants, they are revulsed by them, not the same thing.
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Original Balabushka bumper

Chopdoc
I had several people ask me what I thought they are worth.

I haven't looked at the current market but I will say here exactly what I told several others privately.


In April 2018 I included 12 bumpers, without the box, in a trade deal with some other stuff like Fellini keys and a tooled Sam Engles case, for a first catalog Palmer.

We valued the bumpers at $40 each, total $480 for the deal, and we agreed the full retail value on them at the time was $50 each for a total of $600.

cueman said:
The original ones are $50. At least that is what I would part with one for.
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I agree 100%. In fact, as time passes, I expect that to go up of course.

Until and unless someone makes an exact replica, you can tell immediately if it is a modern replacement.
cueman said:
The modern ones fit but are lighter in color.
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I have wondered if this might be due to age. Oxidation tends to darken materials, so it could be simply that.

But I honestly don't know for sure. I just know what the NOS originals look like now and there is no exact modern equivalent.
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