Wasted chalk?
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Toss it.
Chalk is cheap.
Chalk is cheap.
Give it to some homeless panhandler, with sign anything will help, with a note say try pool.
Chalk from the edges of the chalk instead of the middle. Use the high points of the chalk as they develop. You'll get chalk on the tip more consistently.
Tear the paper back slowly as the chalk is used up.
Tear the paper back slowly as the chalk is used up.
it’s a waste not to finish them.
I used to take a razor blade and cut the paper down, and keep going with it, but I decided that was a waste of time considering how cheap chalk is. To this day though I have some difficulty throwing it away, so now I have a stack of used chalk waiting to be tossed. It's kinda like my wife with running shoes. She has been a runner for years and has every pair of running shoes she ever bought, and can't seem to throw them away.
Sent it to “justnum”, he is recycler.
That results from improper application of the chalk to the cue’s tip.
It’s a newbie mistake that some players never quite break the habit.
It’s a newbie mistake that some players never quite break the habit.
Rusty in Montana
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Personally after growing up around my grandparents who survived the depression like so many others I became frugal to say the least ha ha
The chalk I use I use to sides or corners tearing off the paper as needed , it slows me down and makes me think about what I need to do I owe this tip to Frank McGowan .
The chalk I use I use to sides or corners tearing off the paper as needed , it slows me down and makes me think about what I need to do I owe this tip to Frank McGowan .
That is why you never leave your own chalk on the rail.
The paper on that chalk should have been trimmed a long time ago. I sometimes wrap some tape around it to keep the wrapper on and to mark the chalk as mine.
If the paper is exposed, it takes chalk off your tip.
It looks like he's halfway between grinding and brushing in how he uses it now.
middleofnowhere
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My best story about chalk.
I was going in a bowling alley. It was small with 24 lanes and a 10 table pool room. They had a big box of used chalk behind the counter. and one day the owner decides to get the kid who worked there to cut them down so they could still be used.
There was a shop behind the pin setters so he takes the box back there. Instead of cutting them down with a hacksaw he gets the ides of grinding them down with a disk sander. it worked and they came out pretty good, "EXCEPT". The blue dust got into about the first 10 pinsetters. In no time you could see the pins slowly changing color from white to blue.
To make a long story short, they had to clean all the pins and completely clean the pin setting machines. It took days to clean up the mess all to save some chalk that at that time cost like $10.00 a gross.
I was going in a bowling alley. It was small with 24 lanes and a 10 table pool room. They had a big box of used chalk behind the counter. and one day the owner decides to get the kid who worked there to cut them down so they could still be used.
There was a shop behind the pin setters so he takes the box back there. Instead of cutting them down with a hacksaw he gets the ides of grinding them down with a disk sander. it worked and they came out pretty good, "EXCEPT". The blue dust got into about the first 10 pinsetters. In no time you could see the pins slowly changing color from white to blue.
To make a long story short, they had to clean all the pins and completely clean the pin setting machines. It took days to clean up the mess all to save some chalk that at that time cost like $10.00 a gross.
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At The Palace in San Francisco (and probably across the street at Cochran's) the procedure was to file the face of deep-hole chalk on a rough file. I think the counter man did this in his spare time.
But chalk only gets like that if it is used by people who chalk wrong, which is to say most of the people in the pool hall.
boogieman
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that ping.
I prefer to brush but grinding is a much better low brainpower method (for me) while you're thinking about the table. I'll always brush if I'm about to put an extreme stroke on the ball but a little grind never hurts. Bonus points if it makes you look like a banger to keep your opponent off guard.
I've gotten many, many address labels from St. Judes Hospital over the years. Since I rarely send anything through the post office anymore, I use the labels to mark my chalk.