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I can assure you that I measured the opening at the tips, and they're 4.25". I'll post a pic with a measuring tape. One thing's for sure---my table isn't as fast as it could be, so maybe the cloth is a little loose. The rails are also a bit less springy than I think they should be, but that's...

Cool! Thanks for the encouragement, people. I hope to share some runs soon. Low500, on my way home tonight I stopped at WalMart to get the Real Magic. I'll give it a try. You have to wonder why they didn't spell it Reel Magic, since it's for fishing reels. I assume they were threatened with a...

Bob, I use Aramith Ball Cleaner fluid to polish my set. It doesn't seem to help with opening up the balls on the break, and I'm wondering if it would be cheating to use some additive to make the balls less sticky just to bring the conditions up to normal. If it's a reasonable thing to do, what...

Interesting, Bob. That's an interesting experiment. And I'd say that the majority of my run enders are missing shots. I was watching Alex Pagulayan's 280 plus run last night that Michael Yednak was kind enough to post on Facebook. There were several shots that just wouldn't have gone down on my...

I got a 9' Brunswick Gold Crown table about 9 months ago. It's one of the toughest tables I've ever played on, and it's all I've been playing on. It's in a humid basement. The balls are always hard to open up. The corner pockets are 4.25", and the sides are 5". I think the pocket cut and hard...

Cool. Does anyone know how much storage I'd need per hour of mp4 video from a tablet like this Kindle Fire? The storage is expandable up to 256 GB with micro SD.

Thanks, Franky4Eyes. I don't plan to stream, but I do plan to record my practice sessions, so I'm curious about file format and storage capacity to look for in a tablet that might make things easier. Any other thoughts, anyone?

I just tested a wall-mounted cheap webcam connected by USB to my laptop, and it's recording my table fine, but I'd prefer a less bulky setup, so I am considering mounting a cheap tablet like this Amazon Fire. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GEVWOG6/ref=twister_B01M71HRMY?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 If...

I would think that the higher the target is for the matches, the more certain the tournament winner will be the most deserving player. But, 150 is probably plenty. Watching straight pool can be torture or meditation for me. The point target is probably the least important factor to me as a...

What is the concern, how long the match takes for viewers to sit through?

My feed froze also about 10 minutes ago. Fulcher was at about 65 or so. Feed still down for me.

Yes. The thread is about throw. It just isn't about me and my problems. ;) Just because I misjudged what I was doing, doesn't mean others shouldn't test how much throw they can apply.

Thanks, dumluk. Sadly, I wasn't "swiping the rock" as you suggest. I was just mishitting the cueball. I placed a ball near the object ball and just barely out of the way for a particular aim, so if the cue ball struck this additional ball on its way to the object ball, it showed that the cueball...

What do you mean by swiping the rock?

Please forgive me, everyone. I just tried to accomplish the same results with a ball as a boundary so I couldn't squirt towards a thicker aim, and yup, I'm doing something crazy with my stroke that kept touching that boundary ball. Sorry for the buggy ride. :embarrassed2:

Maybe I'm doing something wrong. I can't figure it out, but I believe in peer review, so if several others set up the same test that I did, and they can't achieve more than 5 degrees of throw, then I'd concede. However, could there be additional cling happening with high speeds and excess...

Thanks for weighing in, Bob. I used Aramith Billiard Ball Cleaner in a home-made bucket polisher, and I used a microfiber cloth to get all the cleaner off and hand polish them to a shine. Although I'll try your above recommendations some time soon, I'd really like others to set things up for...

So, my results show: 5/8-ball aim theoretical: 22° actual range: 12°-30° 1/2-ball aim theoretical: 30° actual range: 18°-39° 3/8-ball aim theoretical: 39° actual range: 25°-45°

Today the humidistat shows 78% in the basement. I tested the other two aims with the balls before cleaning and polishing them. This is what I came up with: 5/8-ball range: 12-30 degrees 3/8-ball range: 25-45 degrees I then cleaned and polished the balls, cleaned the cloth with the Simonis X1...

I figured this deserved another thread rather than remaining a tangent topic in another. I claimed in another thread that when I tested the extremes of the fractional aims around half-ball (5/8, 1/2, 3/8) that, when considering various speeds and spins, each of the three aims has a large range...