what do you need help with specifically?


Here is a predator truesplice i was working on recently.
The phenolic face is just a paper thin cap, with loads of epoxy sitting underneath.



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AF pool guy said:

Anyone got tips on breaking this? ....

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I would start from the side and hit the one ball full. note where the wing balls go. Move the cue ball to the other side and to the center in subsequent breaks, searching for something dead, but always play the one ball full. Unless they use a template, you will need to deal with the gaps.

In theory, if the rack is tight, you can direct the nine ball to different spots on the end rail by the hit on the one ball, hoping to make the nine in a head pocket. Also watch its path. Watch on your opponent's break, too.

They seem to open at 11AM. Any idea why they don't start earlier?

Cuebuddy said:

I don't even know where to start, but here goes.
In 1986 I started moving snow for one the biggist ski resorts in North America.
After 10 years I had operated Road graders both Cats and Deeres. Front end loaders with 13' blades
Cats, Case and Volvos, all tires had to be chained up. Larue blowers that were fitted to out 850 Cats.
Unimog tractors, Frieght liners and many other heavy trucks. For the last 30 years I ran a crew of 32 operators on three shifts 21 hours a day 7 days a week.

We would move every flake of snow 3 times. Plowing snow onto the shoulders of the road, than when the storm had passed we would group it and blow into tractor trailers and haul to our snow dump. Once there, we would need to push it off into a 80' revine.

I retired 12/15/2025 and since then we have received around 8" of snow. Its the driest winter on record. We average around 300-350" a year. But this year is vastly different.

I had a great career and am proud of what I had accomplished. Enjoy it while you are fortunate enough to get it. Fire season will be very bad this year in parts of the Rockys if this continues.

Hang in there my fellow snow fighters.

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That's the real deal right there.

Happy retirement! I bet you miss plowin, but probably don't miss the sleep loss!

couldnthinkof01 said:

I remember many rooms having the:
No gambling
No masse'
No swearing

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We also had the "No Jumping" and "No sitting on tables" and the owner would throw you out if he had to warn you more than once.

I don't even know where to start, but here goes.
In 1986 I started moving snow for one the biggist ski resorts in North America.
After 10 years I had operated Road graders both Cats and Deeres. Front end loaders with 13' blades
Cats, Case and Volvos, all tires had to be chained up. Larue blowers that were fitted to out 850 Cats.
Unimog tractors, Frieght liners and many other heavy trucks. For the last 30 years I ran a crew of 32 operators on three shifts 21 hours a day 7 days a week.

We would move every flake of snow 3 times. Plowing snow onto the shoulders of the road, than when the storm had passed we would group it and blow into tractor trailers and haul to our snow dump. Once there, we would need to push it off into a 80' revine.

I retired 12/15/2025 and since then we have received around 8" of snow. Its the driest winter on record. We average around 300-350" a year. But this year is vastly different.

I had a great career and am proud of what I had accomplished. Enjoy it while you are fortunate enough to get it. Fire season will be very bad this year in parts of the Rockys if this continues.

Hang in there my fellow snow fighters.

Not much to say, it's your canvas. Sounds like you got the big stuff figured out (air, power, exhaust).

Insulate it 2x more than you think you need if you live in a climate where it can get below 0. You'll never regret spending a few extra bucks on insulation.

When I built my shop space, I went OVERBOARD with power outlets, dedicated 20a legs for each machine I run, lights on their own circuits, outlets on the walls every 4 feet, duplex outlets for everything. Nothing is more annoying than having a few things sucking power and tripping a breaker or having the lights flicker. I've already found something to use each outlet with. Can't have enough outlets.

Everything else is creature comfort. I threw a smart TV in my shop so I can watch accu-stats in the back ground while roughing out tapers n such. I got a bluetooth radio for listenin to podcasts or tunes when doing work that requires my visual attention. I added some nice shelves that double as light duty tables for assembling parts / cues. Mini fridge so I don't have to walk my ass upstairs for a soda.

What else.... Vintage signs, ads, ephemera from local machine shops is a must, oh, and pin-up gal photos. Then you're set.

take another days drive south and those temps will be the lows for the year and everyone will have a warm coat on.

sjm said:

... Oddly enough, though it is further south than New York City, Louisville, where I'm heading on Friday for the Derby, is often significantly colder.

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I suspect that's because Louisville is farther from the Gulf Stream. I experienced -35F one winter when we lived near Syracuse -- a gift from Canada (15 Jan 1957). I enjoyed building snow forts/igloos and clearing ice from our sidewalk.

I don't live near Syracuse any more, and it looks like I won't build snow forts any time soon:


We have the Pacific Ocean as a temperature buffer here.

take a vacation down south. join me in the sunshine.

or get your own f- 250 gasser with a boss plow and do jobs for yourself. i got one for my driveway , any temp i start it from my house and let it warm up.
even -20 or so.

block heater will run off a 12v battery with a 2000 w inverter. but your salaried so tell them if they wont give you electric or a way to warm up then you cant plow that day. no one builds a shop where there is no electric available.

and you do run number 1 diesel in winter and power service to stop gelling or it isnt starting anyway.
but a 7.3 is made to start in the cold. thats what they are for.

what i used to use for a plane was a camp propane stove and run a flexible duct up into the engine area and let the heat go in that way and twenty minutes everything was up to temp. this way the battery gets some help as well.

my tractors usually had number 2 in them still so it gelled and with the heater they warm up and ran fine . gelling starts like at just below freezing with number 2 diesel.
cold weather is the shiits.