jbart65 said:

Predator events have a different vibe, and that's fine. I am not crazy about the set format or shootout, but some variety in pool is all right. The sport should experiment.

As for a lack of attention on AZB, the event is taking place off hours and we did just get over a big run of events in the U.S. There was bound to be some dropoff.

I do like MR events better, but others like Predator. The more the merrier ...

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their tournaments are interminably long and detached. one match per day is just insane.

no, player calls it a good shot and wins the game.

or its a cue ball foul and ball gets back where it was.

or as bob said.

middleofnowhere said:

Say you're playing one pocket and player A has his game ball hanging in his hole. Player B can't just follow it in because there are still loose balls on the table that player A can pocket with ball in hand from behind the line.
So player B pockets the hanging Ball but double hits the cue ball with the tip of his cue leaving the cue ball hanging in player A's hole with the ball now pocketed. Ball goes on the spot, cue ball hanging in the hole, player a comes back to the table.
Would this be legal?

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The ball pocketed in the opponent's pocket does not spot up. That ball spots only if the cue ball is pocketed and no other foul is committed.

(In the old days, the cue ball leaving the table would also get the ball spotted, but that rule has mostly gone away.)

a pool room is worthless if it has, all small tables, or

no one to talk to, no one to gamble with, not good food, too loud music, not cared for tables.

WildWing said:

Actually, Dick Helmstetter started making cues in Washington DC, with the help of Gordon Hart. I've seen at least one of Dick's very eary cues. Looked like a Paradise, but with Gordon's super joint that would be later used in his Viking cues.

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I thought I recalled tales of helmstetter in DC and the international cuemakers HoF agrees.

It details helmstetter cues started 1966 in DC and also that he worked with gordon (hart) prior to that.

Say you're playing one pocket and player A has his game ball hanging in his hole. Player B can't just follow it in because there are still loose balls on the table that player A can pocket with ball in hand from behind the line.
So player B pockets the hanging Ball but double hits the cue ball with the tip of his cue leaving the cue ball hanging in player A's hole with the ball now pocketed. Ball goes on the spot, cue ball hanging in the hole, player a comes back to the table.
Would this be legal?

bbb said:

That’s the penalty for not running out

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And the Fargo 300, who only got to kick at balls in five racks, decides he wants to spend his time some other way.

iusedtoberich said:

In the old days it was common to tap the top of the CB in one hole, or trap the CB in the jaws of the corner pocket with a double hit….

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Back in the day, it WAS common that all players who had never read a rule book would do just that. But, once we learned re: the ‘forward stroke’ & ‘CB must be shot out of the kitchen’ rules, things changed. Specifying BCA rules before the game starts (and carrying a copy) helps prevent conflicts.

kingwang said:

Usually players with a bent bridge arm would float their arm above the six there I think. It's just simply his form.

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I don't think... I know.

As an arm bender, that green cue ball is in an area of concern!

fastone371 said:

The real problem with small block Mopars is the valvetrain. They have kittywhumpass pushrod/rocker arm angles and suffer a lot of valvetrain issues at high RPM.

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Pretty much all the small blocks had valve train issues, the mopars in particular. Ford had them too, not as bad. Chevrolet had issues but they also had more things available to fix them. Used to fit something called a jo-mar stud girdle on the Chevies. Totally different units but they made one for small blocks and large blocks.

I put timing gears on top and bottom, no chain. With a little offset bushing which went over the pin aligning the cam gear it was possible to time the cam gear off of the crank gear. By being able to adjust the entire valve timing assembly in one place it was possible to time an engine for low end torque or high end screaming or a moderate setting in between.

In the big block Chevy line up I favored the 427, the NASCAR mystery motor from the early sixties. They released it on the street after a year or two, first shrinking it down to "just" 396CI. Just the way things worked out I spent most of my big block time with 454's. I don't exactly like 454's from a technical standpoint but no question that they can be built to run and hold together.

I planned to build a Ford Pinto with a big block Chevy in it, kind of a superspeedway Modified, modified enough to be street legal. A big big block, maybe 508 or bigger, a rock crusher Muncie, and a superspeedway quick change, Halliburton, Winters, or whatever can hold up to that kind of horsepower.

I also leaned towards a dual engine street rod to top 1000CI when I was younger. Have it set up where I could time the engines to run as one which should have a wicked thump, or 180 degrees off from each other which should make it purr like a luxury vehicle of old. It would be running as a sixteen cylinder where with the two engines firing together it would seem to be a monster V8.

Just a few ideas for a Sunday afternoon grocery getter or something to cruise the park!

Hu