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Sounds like assumptions rather than facts.

There’s a massive difference between you and your lack of motor control causing a foul. Versus something uncontrolled causing a foul. In the situation you described, if someone else causes me to foul the cue ball after the shot was taken. The only recourse should be to replay the shot. Which...

Sorry but you’re wrong. As long as the cue ball is still moving, the shot is considered live. It’s a foul no matter what. What if the cue ball was actually going to a pocket and the object ball got moved to prevent a scratch? If I have a cue ball going for a pocket, by your logic, I can...

Are you becoming slightly senile? The ‘tip’ is just the end of the cue. Are you confused as to the difference between a one piece tip/ferrule, and no ferrule with a tip? Are are you confusing material types? I think it’s time you post a pic of the cue in question so we can end this which hunt...

How big is my belt? Some things aren’t just easily explained. Concepts get lost. If I hit two identical looking 28mph breaks, same cue ball reaction. Center cue ball, square hit.. But one with a leather tip, and one with a phenolic tip. How is the energy/forces the cue ball is receiving able to...

All the old hardness charts I’ve used are no longer around. Seems they’ve been updated. But the ones I remember always had phenolic at 98, and white diamond at 99. None of them had G10 listed either. Now the charts I see had WD at 90, and Phenolic is 99, and no G10. Seems to be some discrepancy...

If the marks are as you refer to them, scrapes and not cracks. That is a totally different problem. I would say that those marks are from an entirely different issue than just how hard a tip is. A prep/surface issue. Dry chalk not adhering, causing your friend to overly scuff his tip. Could have...

Not a phenolic tip, the Cyborg break 2.0. No table at home. We’ll see once I get out of this surgery required quarantine period if I can get something set up and going at a friends. And unless I have a radar gun, I can only speculate as to what my actually speed will be. But I’d hope I could do...

Are you changing the subject now?

Simple physics(calculus 2) states that contact point between two arcs stays the same no matter the curve of the arc. You’re wrong in your assumption. Simply put, unless the cue tip is actually harder than the cue ball, the half moon cracks aren’t caused by the tip itself.

So couldn’t the exact be same for a slightly off center impact on the rack be the cause too?

This is the anecdotal evidence I’m talking about. A white diamond tip is harder than a phenolic tip. How could a softer tip leave marks but the harder one doesn’t? No one can explain that and still stick to their theory that the composite tips cause the marks.

Do you understand what a test actually encompasses? That doesn’t mean break a rack 50 times, find the evidence you were looking for and quitting like they did.

I’ve seen plenty. But since no one cares enough to actually look at the evidence on hand, it’s often overlooked. You’ll notice the cue ball marks because you’re actively looking at it. I’ve broken two object balls by breaking in the last 3 months. Still haven’t broken a cue ball.

Word of mouth is now established information? Where’s the actual tests showing these anecdotal claims?

Are people really this blind? The pool balls are made from a phenolic resin. The tip made from phenolic resin. Yet somehow a cue that is 5x less forceful on impact than the cb->rack force is what’s causing the half moon cracks?

Assuming much? Why wouldn’t a cue stick leave a full circular mark then too? And you’re not paying attention to details. Four hours of play left 7 little marks. My explanation says that there were only 7 good breaks during that 4 hours. Otherwise if it was the cue making the marks, couldn’t...

Here’s a curve ball to that theory; no one has ever checked for a cue ball half moon crack when it’s just the cue stick striking the cue ball. It’s always after the cue ball has struck the rack. Anecdotal evidence is to not be trusted. A cue stick hitting a stationary cue ball imparts at best a...

Lots of stuff just got re-shut down. They could have been planning on reopening and could have postponed it.

Care to try and elaborate on that? The idea behind low deflection is that apply side spin no longer creates the squirt of the cb, to deflect it off the shot line. Very confused to what you’re saying?????? And if you’re applying side spin on the break, you’re either doing a cut break in 9 ball...