Aurora was the big home slot car racing set company in the early to mid 60s- they sold hundreds of thousands of those sets at Christmas time.
During Christmas time we would put a 4x8 plywood over our 7 foot home pool table to race the slot cars.
My older brothers had the Big Lionel train sets in the late 50s into early 60s then the slot cars and smaller HO train sets took hold for kids born after the first post war baby boom.
I have used a rather inexpensive shoe polish for years with very impressive results. I have Bic4 from my day's of wearing some nice leather boots. I think I'll be okay with what I know. I was expecting a Long list of preferred products actually.
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only time i got to rack 2 today. i had to leave for work anyway so the ending isnt quite as dramatic as it seems haha
tried to minimize cue ball movement. Came up short bouncing out for the 1 ball and missed position from the bank to roll the key ball in the side. came up short bouncing out again. Somehow made the ultra thin break ball and then just dogged one from the rail to keep going.
used my tip today instead of bobs paper idea to point to where i wanted the cue ball (earlier in the session). it helped. I used to do that a lot playing 8 ball when i was younger. Now i have the advantage of watching it back to see how close i was. Thanks bob.
You move the cue ball quite well and pocket balls well. It was a somewhat difficult rack to get through with no really good keyball candidates. And you got through it quite cleanly without bumping too many balls. Also, kudos for getting the problem ball early. The 3 was also a problem ball, btw, but it was tougher to see why it was a problem until later. I think you realized why the 3 wasn't really a good keyball. Your plan was solid, but the 3 was just too difficult a choice, well done for still getting through it.
Whenever I have a bit of a mess down in the rack area in which some balls go and others don't I usually start cleaning up there before I do anything else. After the first shot, I'd go down and do some cleaning up in the rack area. As for key balls, I'd either try to make one, or I'd maybe settle for the 14 as a breaker and maybe the 13 and 11 as key balls or key to the key.
Or maybe I'd have used the 15 for a key ball, if I'd bumped it like you did and then got with the 9 as a breaker. That was a clever little shot you played when you bumped that, too bad you didn't take advantage, however that plan had the problem of not having a perfekt ktk. Some times you just have to get through a rack and there is no really obvious solution.
