Parts to convert Gold Crown 5 to ball return
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Brunswick Ball Return and Reliable are mutually exclusive concepts. You could fabricate a drainage system with PVC that would work flawlessly.
I've played on quite a few GC's w/returns and they all worked fine. If the gullies are installed by a moron you can have issues but its not the tables fault.
Agree 100%.
Those that I've seen are nothing but roller coaster tracks. Balls derail and fall to the floor. Some derail and wedge on the cover boards. Some don't even make it through the funnel. The ball hunt is something familiar to all pool players.
You mean the divider thing for one hole?
I have a GC4. Bought brand new..... the balls hop off the rail when pocketed into side pocket. The installers were Brunswick authorized. From now on I had it with authorized installers.
No, it’s a 1x3 support that runs across the top of the ball box. The balls can roll underneath it from front to back of ball box but there’s only a 3/8 inch gap from top of balls to bottom of support. Reach under It to grab a ball can rip the skin off your knuckles pulling it out if you forget the support is there
I get it but this is an install issue. Played on a bunch of 3's with returns and they all worked fine. One 4 i played on had mis-aligned gullies and a ball would fall out. I told the houseman and he fixed it in about a minute. I'm a drop pocket guy all the way. All the 4's at Magoo's Tulsa are drops.
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I have always very much liked the GCV's, I would be willing to trade my GCI for a GCV but probably not a Diamond. Its not that I don't like Diamonds I just like my GCI more.
Whoever set up a Gold Crown to where there are problems with the ball return has got to be one of the biggest morons on the planet. They are simple, completely visible, and there is nothing for the balls to hang up on. My ball return GCI is 60 years old and still works flawlessly. (OMG, Im sounding like a grumpy old man, kinda like Garzar
)So stating FACTS makes one grumpy? How's this for grumpy: FK OFF.Whoever set up a Gold Crown to where there are problems with the ball return has got to be one of the biggest morons on the planet. They are simple, completely visible, and there is nothing for the balls to hang up on. My ball return GCI is 60 years old and still works flawlessly. (OMG, Im sounding like a grumpy old man, kinda like Garzar
I had a GC5 with ball return for several years, just recently sold it.
Loved the ball return it worked perfectly. It's just a few wire tracks covered in soft plastic/rubber. Very quiet and smooth.
Just a few times in the years I had it a hard hit ball would come off the track and fall on floor. And even less would a ball get stuck in the track. Great for practicing, you can just stay on the ball return end and keep shooting. Alignment shots down the rail or whatever.
It has a nice symmetrical well designed look and adds to the beauty of the table.
GC5 has no 1x3 support that I can recall. Nothing is in the way of grabbing the balls. The size of the box was never a problem for me.
I like the large size, easy to find a specific ball (usually the cue ball in my case!
). I don't really like the small size of the box on a GC7 that I tried.. If you have most of the 15 balls in there its hard to find the cue ball as its still almost inside the table.
If you can't buy the parts from Brunswick anymore, I'm sure they will be hard to find as anyone that has one is unlikely to sell just those parts and it would be really hard to duplicate those tracks. Easy to put on, just a few screws. Mine is the black one. The other one I almost bought to replace it in my new house.
Loved the ball return it worked perfectly. It's just a few wire tracks covered in soft plastic/rubber. Very quiet and smooth.
Just a few times in the years I had it a hard hit ball would come off the track and fall on floor. And even less would a ball get stuck in the track. Great for practicing, you can just stay on the ball return end and keep shooting. Alignment shots down the rail or whatever.
It has a nice symmetrical well designed look and adds to the beauty of the table.
GC5 has no 1x3 support that I can recall. Nothing is in the way of grabbing the balls. The size of the box was never a problem for me.
I like the large size, easy to find a specific ball (usually the cue ball in my case!
). I don't really like the small size of the box on a GC7 that I tried.. If you have most of the 15 balls in there its hard to find the cue ball as its still almost inside the table.If you can't buy the parts from Brunswick anymore, I'm sure they will be hard to find as anyone that has one is unlikely to sell just those parts and it would be really hard to duplicate those tracks. Easy to put on, just a few screws. Mine is the black one. The other one I almost bought to replace it in my new house.
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