Would buying a set of Aramiths help on muggy club tables?

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briskx

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Hey guys

I play at 2 different local clubs over here in the UK. Not sure what it is like in the states but here the tables have just been played on by the public mostly and are treated quite rubbish. But more annoyingly....

The balls given with the Sams tables when you get a table are really muggy, dirty and stuff. I just wondered if getting a new set of personal balls would:

A) Split the balls better on breaking?
B) Easier to get spin out the balls so shots made a bit simpler?
C) Generall improvement (less kicks and bullshit)?

I have played with a mates aramiths and i felt great and swishy as the balls just felt really nice and pingy, not dirty, muggy and overused. I love playing with a measleball and watching it spin round and stuff, just psychologically helps!

Thanks for any help! (and please dont say a workman never blames his tools or you suck its not the balls etc because i know it isnt).
 
Playing with a new shiny set of balls is a great experience. Before you go out and spend the money on a set of balls, ask the pub owner permission to clean them on your own time. Aramith recommends their ball cleaner solution, and for restorer for their really dirty balls.

As for playing on a coin operated bar tables with your own set, check how the cue ball return mechanism works. I think it defeats the purpose of using your own set, but still have to resort using the table's oversized cueball or magnet ball.
 
ya know they have a good point about them not feeding properly but also if the tables are bad, new balls are only going to help very minimally i would think and only at first...once they have been rolling around on that bad table awhile they will get dirty and slow too, they dont make balls to just magically float over defects in the table, when your buying a new set of balls like aramiths what makes them better is the standards to which they are made, they are all the exact same weight, size, and are perfectly round, which isnt always the case with your normal run of the mill balls
 
master_cueist said:
ya know they have a good point about them not feeding properly but also if the tables are bad, new balls are only going to help very minimally i would think and only at first...once they have been rolling around on that bad table awhile they will get dirty and slow too, they dont make balls to just magically float over defects in the table, when your buying a new set of balls like aramiths what makes them better is the standards to which they are made, they are all the exact same weight, size, and are perfectly round, which isnt always the case with your normal run of the mill balls
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not even if i cleaned them every week?
 
Well ... ultimately their are 4 sources of drag involved.

1 - Cue tip to ball. If you play with the same cue this is a push.

2 - Aero drag. At low speeds like this, even a clean and smooth ball would have an edge which would require very expensive machinery to even measure.

3 - Cloth to the ball. I would guess this is the greatest difference. Bar tables as a rule play like shiite because they are worn out and filthy more often than not.

4 - Ball to cloth. This I would guess would be the second biggest factor. My understanding of Aramith benefits are that it smoother when clean and much harder ... less chipping.cracking ... than other commonly used materials.

LWW
 
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