Latest Florian Video - No Rail cloth
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That was pretty cool. The balls aren’t sliding off the cushions.
The takeaway from this video is “why bank pool is so difficult” the friction of the cloth on the cushions has a massive effect on the angle which the ball comes off the rail. Amd adjusting for that as top bank players do is a art in and of itself.
The takeaway from this video is “why bank pool is so difficult” the friction of the cloth on the cushions has a massive effect on the angle which the ball comes off the rail. Amd adjusting for that as top bank players do is a art in and of itself.
I skimmed parts of the video very quickly, did not watch the money shots, as it were, yet....
However, if there is advantage to this, It is certainly now possible to make "bare" rails with durability that might not have been possible in gum/natural rubber without cloth as long term protection.
Polyurethane.
I cast polyurethane sets for planer rolls, for myself and a couple others, over 20 years ago.
Not exactly mar-free - these are working machines in pro shops.
But the durability is there and for pool balls which would apply very little abrasion, the rails would probably last as long as the glue held up to the structural/subrail. Un-filled/near pure poly never seems to age harden, either.
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However, if there is advantage to this, It is certainly now possible to make "bare" rails with durability that might not have been possible in gum/natural rubber without cloth as long term protection.
Polyurethane.
I cast polyurethane sets for planer rolls, for myself and a couple others, over 20 years ago.
Not exactly mar-free - these are working machines in pro shops.
But the durability is there and for pool balls which would apply very little abrasion, the rails would probably last as long as the glue held up to the structural/subrail. Un-filled/near pure poly never seems to age harden, either.
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It’s a regular table just no cloth on the cushions.
I’ve experienced this myself, but nowhere to this degree. 10 or so years ago I had made a “practice shelf” out of a board and 2 rails that a mechanic on here sold me. The 2 rails gave me one corner pocket. They didn’t have cloth on them. I did have cloth on the bed, which was a piece of particleboard. When the balls hit the rails, they reacted the strangest I’ve ever seen. The friction was tremendous. I didn’t see anything as extreme as this video, but that’s most likely due to my very limited setup. Based on my experience, and now watching Florian’s video, I’d say every table without cushion cloth would play like the video.
At the rec center (about 50 years ago) someone had managed to tear off the cloth on the long rail for about 8 inches by a foot pocket. With ball in hand behind the line, you could shoot onto the bare spot where the rubber was exposed and bring the cue ball straight across the foot rail. If you overdid it, the cue ball would hit the other long rail second and spin up the table from the reversed english.
Cool. Surprising how much the sidespin grabs without cloth on the rail. We only use a small fraction of the potential effect.
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I really enjoyed that.
I haven’t seen something so original in years. It reminds me of when I was a boy I was fascinated how I could bounce one of those little rubber balls off the floor into the wall and then it would bounce back and forth like a boomerang on the floor
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The exaggerated spin action is a magnified version of what happens on a smaller scale with cloth. Kinda edumacashunal.
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The spin seems to reverse on every cushion, like a super ball as mentioned above.
