Loosening the pockets on a Diamond table

trob said:
Of course you have to name call just because someone likes something you don’t . That shows your lack of intellect. Sorry you’re not good enough to play on anything that doesn’t have bucket pockets. Try practice or maybe take up bowling.

I totally understand there are two kinds of home players . Some aren’t trying to take on the world they just want a nice table in their house. That’s what the olhausen I had was and they mostly are. It was way to easy for me so I didn’t enjoy playing on it. The diamond I do. to each his own.
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Nothing I said reflects my ability at the table on tight pockets or my intellect 😂
And yes, only knuckle dragging fanboys love Diamonds and their bouncy ”my stroke sucks please bounce me into position with my garbage poke stroke” rails, and their long ledge shelf of a slate, inside the pocket. 🙃
 
SUPERSTAR said:
Nothing I said reflects my ability at the table on tight pockets or my intellect 😂
And yes, only knuckle dragging fanboys love Diamonds and their bouncy ”my stroke sucks please bounce me into position with my garbage poke stroke” rails, and their long ledge shelf of a slate, inside the pocket. 🙃
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I take that as a you haven't had much success playing on Diamonds, that's usually the case when player think they play better than they actually do!
 
Coos Cues said:
Not only are each pocket exactly within thousandths of an inch the same opening size but also the same angle both opening and down. The condition of the original sizes and angles from the diamond factory was appallingly sloppy. And since the work was done by the best table mechanic on the planet, the actual opening size is exactly correct too as well as the angles. Not too loose, not too tight. So the table plays exactly as it needs to in the overall best interest of the game of pocket billiards. 4 and 7/16" for those not in the know. But also in conjunction with the angles I can't recite but they are perfect. Well hit balls never rattle and poorly hit ones do frequently. Exactly right with the world. Players of all skill levels can enjoy the game. Some of you will think well that's just my opinion but it's actually fact. Every deviation from this is going in the negative direction of equipment. There should be once and for all one standard specification for all tables manufactured to be taken seriously and this is it. The coin ops serve a different market and set of goals.

I have to add that when new cloth is installed on this or any other table they will play unnaturally easy for a couple of weeks before settling in to perfect. This is why it's too easy for so many pros you see on newly reclothed tables. Get them on used cloth they miss way more shots.
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Just curious, in your opinion, who is this best table mechanic on the planet you are referring to?
 
snookered_again said:
at about 1 min 8 sec, you can see he has the rails upside down and you can see how the pocket irons or corner pocket castings or whatever you like to call them fit there.
If one were to move the rails inward or outward there might need to either material removed or shims to get those parts to fit tight to each other where they butt against the ends of the rails.

My take is that one could add more thickness to the rubber facings at the ends of the rail cushions without doing damage ( if you dont mind recovering the rails.)

Adjusting the shelf or trimming the rails or adding to them to move the cushions is technically possible, but a bit extreme. If you add 1/8" more to the facings that would reduce the pocket size by about 1/4"

If one did not like the modification, or was selling the table to another, then the rails can then be adjusted or recovered with new rubber.

if the table is sold or moved then the felt may be renewed anyway, and its nicer if the carpet matches the curtains, so that might be the time to fool around with all that.
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You are not speaking from a knowledgeable perspective.

No offense intended...your thoughts about what you see aren't reality.
 
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I was away a week and it seems that the discussion I participated in turned childish. I'm new on this forum so I'm not calling anyone in particular out, just a casual observation. Is there a moderator ?
 
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