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I noticed these for sale in some old and very fuzzy and hard to read Brunswick balke collender adverising. It seems to be an odd duck and Im not finding a lot of info on it. it had shelves and a wicker bucket. so youd store all your balls on the rack but then you could pull a "trigger" and...

my snooker cue is fine but I'd like a shorter butt. Its made offshore but seems of good enough quality.. I bought it used from a friend so I'm not sure who sold it. im the thrd owner.. If I remember right it says san yuen or something similar. My girlfriend bought a nice English made one...

my lady friend was reading somewhere in snooker rules that if the cue ball is hit off the table that the opponent can shoot ANY ball after placing it in the D. we have always played that it is a foul, 4 unless the shot involved a higher point ball. I'm thinking that actually could make sense...

so to define that,, Coefficient of friction (COF) is a dimensionless number that is defined as the ratio between friction force and normal force (Eqn (2.1)). Materials with COF smaller than 0.1 are considered lubricous materials. COF depends on the nature of the materials and surface roughness...

Just want to repair a bunch of mostly junky cues so I wanted to order a selection 10 or 11 mm for snooker and 13's for 8 ball cues. I found lots of different types online, but didn't really want to order a whole lot of one type or boxes of different ones to experiment with hardness. I assume...

I just happened upon something a bit unusual and wondered if others were more familiar with them , it has a black Bakelite ball on the end and is a walking stick, it unscrews and the shaft is stored inside the ( hollow) butt., It converts to a pool cue. It has a map of japan on the stick with...

fixing Up this old Brunswick Balke Collener table. it measures 50 x 100 inches, probably made around 1905 give or take a decade. the long bolts that hold the rail covers on thread into the pocket irons. they thread in but the threads are a bit sloppy. I was missing 3 bolts and went looking...

I've noticed that on average counters , furniture etc, have grown in height over the past 100 years because so has the average height of a human. Are all pool tables a set height? or have they grown taller over time? there are plenty of graphs online showing how much humans have grown in...

I keep hearing how Ai will replace a lot of things. Then I imagine if a CNC robot could play pool. imagine two robots, both playing pool against each other and controlled remotely? or a peal person playing against them. people could pay to play and control them remotely, or a robot...

I noticed in looking on ebay that there were weights that had the "brunswick balk collender name on them. I believe there was a weight system where the chalk may hang at the end of the table but it could be pulled out and then when you let go the wight caused it to retract. the weight was tied...

Just curious why the forum says specifically "in the US" I know most of the readers are from the US, but as far as Billiard and pool history a lot of interesting facts pertaining to antiques and history may also be from other countries. England has a lot to do with the history of snooker...

I'm sure it has come up before. I've made a few wood parts like replica radio knobs on my metal lathe, Id like to be able to at least re-tip a few cues. I can make the ferrules in brass and have a bunch of cues with cracked up lousy plastic ones. I do not think the hole in my chuck is big...

Just thought I'd pass this by others that have more varied experience. Where I play there are a few that migrated from the legion which is basically a club of heavy drinking alcoholics. Many smoke weed too, it's both legal and common place here. the weed smokers tend to be a lot more polite...

so we all know snooker cloth is directional and many go to great lengths to care for the cloth. some use a big brush to comb the nap towards the foot of the table. One place made a piece of plywood about 6" wide and the width of the table, with snooker cloth on the bottom, and they slide that...

I'm just setting up a Brunswick Balke collender table from around 1908 so Im looking for books that are related and may show pictures and details. Brunswick has setup instructions for the table but they are intentionally blurred out and there is a form to ask for higher resolution pics but I...

right now I have a practice table in our kitchen , a 1960's brunswick that I rebuilt with better rubber, felt etc. It served us for a year or so. Its not ideal because we've been using only the shaft of our 3/4 length snooker cues. Now I'm setting up a practice table in a place where the space...