j2pac said:

If it is the shaft, I might have one lying around. Let me see if I can find it. If it is straight, I will send it to you.

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well that would be great. It is my son's first cue of his own and my cue repairman has quit. KCMO area

sbrownn said:

Other people have mentioned this also in much older threads for possible replacement hardware. After searching the following Tandy clasp website, nothing was found even remotely close to what the clasp looks like on my Instroke 3x7:

https://tandyleather.com/collections/clasps

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You could probably find something close at Springfield Leather company. https://springfieldleather.com/coll...9JE2utQ2I14hsHfqYAiFQ1p9KO5vl2hqgEkkwz8lSbKQo

straightline said:

Modern rationality/common sense is mostly narrative. The actual carriers - the people- are only along for the ride anyway. In that sense public opinion is far from truth.

Besides the shit (pyramids for instance) sitting out in the back yard, I go by the proportions and scale of the immediate universe. Everywhere you look there is unfathomably more beyond perception.
Were not even particles here.

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Good post. Two things that are true: a) there are things we don't yet understand (Stonehenge and the Pyramids are good examples) and b) some of what we think we know will be proven incorrect sometime in the future, much in the way that Copernicus proved in 1543 that the widely accepted geocentric model of the universe was in error and needed to be replaced by a heliocentric model.

Still, we're not debating the origin of the earth or the universe here, just the shape of the earth. We have been photographing the earth from space for over sixty years and there are so many images suggesting a basically spherical shape that it is hard to reach any other conclusion regarding its shape.

Is it possible that we're wrong and that the many such photos are a cosmic ruse that has misled us? Yes, it is, but we tend to reach our conclusions based on the evidence in front of us, so at least for now, the earth is round.

Unless it's possible that pool balls are flat, however, this thread is not pool related,

Not to mother hen but mother henning anyway, if the cloth was on a removable frame, you could take it outside and hose it off. Also pop it on in the first place.