Accu-Rack "SOLO"

The Renfro

The Renfro

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Tracking on my ink stamps show they will be delivered on Monday... I have a list of people to send "SOLO"s to that purchased templates from us in the last year... Hopefully those will go out Monday depending on when USPS delivers my package....

As a reintroduction I will be running a sale on the new SOLO templates...

Fo the next week you will find promo pricing on the SOLO with tube $10 instead of $14 and you can buy the 9-Ball and SOLO templates as a bundle for $15.....

Will likely do another drawing right before the US Open for a free Accu-Stats PPV package and we will be giving a few sets of these away as well as for those who don't win the PPV

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Chris
 
Two racks?

I was under the impression that the "Solo" was going to be good for 8,9 and 10 ball. So I'm a little confused as to why you're selling it in a bundle with the 9 ball rack. Was I just wrong or do you prefer your other rack for 9?
 
iateyourlunch said:
I was under the impression that the "Solo" was going to be good for 8,9 and 10 ball. So I'm a little confused as to why you're selling it in a bundle with the 9 ball rack. Was I just wrong or do you prefer your other rack for 9?
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I actually prefer the SOLO but we have several tournaments/pool rooms who use the 9-Ball template... With that in mind.... I decided to keep the 9-Ball version around awhile longer... How long I am unsure of.. It would make the most sense to just mark the 9-Ball down as a closeout item and going forward only offer the SOLO template.... From an aesthetics perspective I doubt many will prefer the look of the 9-Ball template so maybe it needs to go the way of leaded gasoline and dinosaurs.....
 
Instruction Sheet... Printer screwed up the inserts.. Usually this is on the backside of insert.....

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Chris, I'm not sure who your laser guy is but I noticed faint burn marks around the edges. Perhaps he needs to lower the power and slow down the laser a bit to prevent that. I suspect it is a tough material to get the settings right but I bet he can do it if he works at it hard enough.
 
nobcitypool said:
Chris, I'm not sure who your laser guy is but I noticed faint burn marks around the edges. Perhaps he needs to lower the power and slow down the laser a bit to prevent that. I suspect it is a tough material to get the settings right but I bet he can do it if he works at it hard enough.
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It is a hard balancing act... The issue is the polyester fillaments are not completely uniform like normal fiber in paper... Depending on the distibution we have some racks that have that faint burn mark where the fiber may have flared up during cutting.... I will have a talk with him and see if he has any ideas... I tried dye cutting the templates as it would bring the costs down and I could do it with my equipment but once again the poyester stuck it's head up and decided it was going to stretch instead of cut clean... All It takes is a few thousandths of stretch and they would do no better on worn out sets of balls as the competition....

May not be something that can be adressed without a material change and I would likely be very hard pressed to come up with another material that mimics the friction of the cloth as well as what we are using.....

Appreciate you pointing out that the customer does notice it likely as much as I do....

Chris
 
Chris, it's not a big deal to me but it could be to some. I'm guessing most wouldn't understand what caused it.

I assume they're using a CO2 laser. They could try turning the power down, turning the speed up and running the pattern twice. I know you can use an inert gas with Yag lasers, not sure if that works with CO2.
 
nobcitypool said:
Chris, it's not a big deal to me but it could be to some. I'm guessing most wouldn't understand what caused it.

I assume they're using a CO2 laser. They could try turning the power down, turning the speed up and running the pattern twice. I know you can use an inert gas with Yag lasers, not sure if that works with CO2.
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It's an 80 watt CO2.. And he is a little protective of letting me play with it :wink: So I will have to see what he thinks of a double burn at lower power and faster speed..... He also has a 50 watt CO2 that I may drag home in the next month... Is an older unit that used a chain instead of a ballscrew so it may take me some time to rehab it but I have an Acrylic Bridge head thats different than anything on the market that I could cut with it as well as the templates... Just a matter of finding time...

Chalk goes back on the priority burner as soon as I have molds...

The Medium/Hard we just released may be the best tip we make performance wise so I need to get a medium/soft out that I like as much..... We'll see how long the new lasts tho as I may be back on our soft at any point... Our soft changed me from a hard tip player and it has done the same thing to more people than I can count now....

Coolest part of Outsville is as we grow there is more capital for equipment and projects... I have an App design I have been working on the decision tree and database for for 2 years now... It may fastrtrack training if I can find the cash and programmer to put it together..... December is marked as APP Month on my calendar LOL....
 
Although you can often find just the right settings on the laser to not get any burn marks sometimes it's really more like herding cats. A trick I saw here is to use wet newspaper as a mask. We have a notebook full of settings for each material that we cut using the laser. The laser cutter's rule is test six times cut once :-)

Also, consider having them die cut. We were laser cutting most of our parts and then just decided to go old school and have dies made and it's WAY faster and of course no burn marks. We still use the laser a lot but using dies has increased our capacity on the stock parts.
 
Just ordered my Solo on Sunday morning. Can't wait to get it and start using it. I've used the previous templates before and was really pleased with how they performed (much better than the MR I bought at DCC) so I'm sure the all in one model will be exactly what I'm looking for.
 
StraightPoolIU said:
Just ordered my Solo on Sunday morning. Can't wait to get it and start using it. I've used the previous templates before and was really pleased with how they performed (much better than the MR I bought at DCC) so I'm sure the all in one model will be exactly what I'm looking for.
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Let me know what you think of the new design... Facebook thought my rack your own image was too shocking so they shut down my sales post over there... Am working on something a little less risque and will likely run the sale for another week because of their unappreciation for curves......

Chris
 
Ok I've been out of town so I haven't been able to provide an update. The first time I used the Solo I was having a little trouble getting the one ball to freeze playing 9 ball, but the problem was I was using the rack upside down with the white side up. I used it correctly for a good 2 hours the next day and it worked perfectly. The racks just went together, and I didn't really have to even push up on them to resettle them. Compared to the MR I used to have it's a 100 percent improvement. Also I want to note that I was using it with a really worn ball set and it still worked just like it was supposed to.
 
this side up

Hey Renfro...Just an idea, maybe you can
engrave a big X or this side up just in case
anymore IU grads buy your rack.

EXCELLENT product. Played with it the other
night. Couldn't get a bad rack at all and trust
me I tried. Any chalk updates?

Take Care, Carl
 
nobcitypool said:
Chris, it's not a big deal to me but it could be to some. I'm guessing most wouldn't understand what caused it.

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In my industry, I've done more with laser cutting than most of my peers.


With non-homogeneous materials, it's most often not worth trying to fiddle with the process once you are comfortable with the cut. The optimum process one day won't be so optimum because the substrate has it's own tolerance. One day, the substrate thickness, the fibers position and percentage could be at one end of the respective tolerances; the next lot could be at the other end. Fabrics sometimes just suck, and often using the higher energy process is best to mitigate incomplete cuts, hangers, and whips.

If the function and aesthetics are acceptable to the limits of the customer (in this case, Outsville is the customer), then I'd let it go.

Freddie
 
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