Recent content by DeeDeeCues

I like the 3/8-10 modified well enough. I don't agree that the minor diameter should be used as a locating feature, but I use it, mostly because it is easy to get and I like the locating barrel. If the female threads are cut with the flats, they are stronger. The thing is, there should be...

I'm no machinist, I've known too many great, good, and mediocre machinists to ever call myself one. I'm a mechanical engineer who can machine well enough to fool the masses. I can usually design parts that I can make to serve the purpose.

Yeah, because your opinion matters that much to me. I've posted photos of cues in progress and of my machine in progress. You are all butthurt over my reply, but you were the one who started this thread because you couldn't rely on your own opinion. You then received more suggestions for a...

Hard to tell, but it looks like the rubber might be a hollow cane tip pushed over the foot. The riveting and design looks extremely similar. I'd guess it's at least made by the same company.

Funny stuff. My hasbro lathe is a three axis CNC mill with a rotary that I designed, machined, and built. I cut my teeth working for a company that designed machines, jigs, and tooling for all of the major aerospace companies, including NASA. Why don't you take a radial pin to your local...

Easier to put together? Every radial I have ever seen is tight as shit...which a thread shouldn't be.

He certainly didn't do it based on any good engineering practices. It isn't simpler to invent your own pin, it isn't less expensive, it isn't faster...I can't think of a single reason other than creating a proprietary device to lock people into their product. No evidence has ever been provided...

One is based on concepts learned from a couple hundred years of engineering, the other is the result of some dude thinking a lead screw looked cool. I'd think the choice would be simple.

I think you and Sheldon are talking about two different things. Sheldon is saying that it isn't what happened to this cue. I don't think you are saying that, either. Yes, hydraulic pressure (the rubber bumper acting like a fluid) has cracked many cues. First one I was asked to repair was a...

Great company to get kitty stickers from, meow.

No, is the original hybrid, half car, half truck, completely useless. I own one.

I wouldn't spend over $175 on a jump cue ever.

See my photo of ebony. Plastic used in cues won't break like that. Ebony will. Or just keep arguing the same point. The ebony I took a photo of has been in my possession for over 25 years.

That is reflection.

As much as you claim to know, you should be able to tell that is not a decal. It appears to be veneered spliced points.