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  1. ShortBusRuss

    Moving to England! (Garage Insulation questions..)

    Further update: While property is a little "oversized" for a couple with a cat... I just realized that it comes with an added benefit... Wifey and I get our own private bathrooms, each with a shower! Plus a spare for guests... No more annoyance with all wife's stuff cluttering up the...
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    Looking for Experienced Diamond Table Mechanic Northhamptonshire, England

    For the UK folks on the forum.. Looking for someone to set up my Diamond table/Light in Polebrook, Oundle, probably sometime mid to late December. Table is currently completely disassembled. It will be on ground floor. Would prefer someone with actual experience with Diamonds, even if it...
  3. ShortBusRuss

    Moving to England! (Garage Insulation questions..)

    Update: We found a different house, and did manage to get a small rental price reduction. About $2,000 or so over our yearly housing allowance. Tolerable. It is a very high spec property (for UK....) New house https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/163415351#/?channel=RES_LET The dining room...
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    Moving to England! (Garage Insulation questions..)

    Well, there's an update... The landlord was up to total shadiness, and after running by the military housing office to check things out, after explaining the deal with the property, they advised us to absolutely not take deal as-is, and we followed their advice. So back to square one, and we...
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    Moving to England! (Garage Insulation questions..)

    Mmmmm.. I was looking for something more "automatic", that kicks in when the temperature falls below a certain level, and is energy efficient enough to leave running for multiple hours during the winter. Does this system fit the bill? I cannot follow the link, cuz apparently Lowe's thinks there...
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    Moving to England! (Garage Insulation questions..)

    Bob, As the table is completely disassembled now... Is there something I can do to "retrofit" the table with underslate heating as it is being rebuilt?
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    Moving to England! (Garage Insulation questions..)

    Not sure which direction/place you are talking about, but no place internal to the house is big enough for a 9 foot Diamond. The glass room is 12 foot wide at most, and the same with either leg of the "L" of the Sitting/Dining Room.
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    Moving to England! (Garage Insulation questions..)

    Yeahhhh, no. There are no dining rooms in the UK, even in most "executive" homes, that have a dining room approaching any semblance of room for playability. All the rightmove pictures are taken with fisheye filters, so they look a lot bigger than they reallynare.
  9. ShortBusRuss

    Moving to England! (Garage Insulation questions..)

    So, moving on from Germany, where the language barrier has been a major issue for both my wife, and to a lesser extent, myself.. Will be living in Northamptonshire region. We got picked to rent an absolutely amazing property, well within our housing allowance. (The UK rental market is extremely...
  10. ShortBusRuss

    Savannah's home table?

    Are we talking gambling, or tournaments? I really don't know, since I did not get to watch any of them play live until much later, but the word on the street was that Parica murdered a lot of champions on the gambling tables way before he started winning tournaments. Granted... I think your...
  11. ShortBusRuss

    Savannah's home table?

    Do you think that maybe that was more about lack of knowledge of play outside of the U.S. at the time, though? I am not sure that Jean would have been able to deal with even the second tier Filipinos at the time, due to the influence of Efren and Parica (and Rotation) on how the game was played...
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    Savannah's home table?

    Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, gross!
  13. ShortBusRuss

    How do these diamond tables play so badly? vid

    This. iusedtoberich would be driven absolutely bats**t crazy by the Gold Crowns most Germans play on. Absolutely rock hard pocket facings, as they don't extend the subrail so they can use a proper thickness pocket facing, so they just double them up. Makes the pocket facing play like concrete...
  14. ShortBusRuss

    Dechaine vs Krause

    It is looking like he might give Krause a good old fashioned passionate horse f***ing!!!
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    Seeking Input: Archer ‘93 vs. Today

    Ten packs with the 1 on the spot where the wing ball was dead wired in the corner on certain tables, on 4 5/8" pockets. Not even in the same universe as what players are doing these days. Top players of that age had a power break, because obviously they needed one... But everything else about...
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    Dechaine vs Krause

    I agree. He is proving me wrong.
  17. ShortBusRuss

    Dechaine vs Krause

    Oof... I don't think this is gonna be as close as some people are thinking.... As in.. I think Mike may be lucky to get 10? (Sorry, Mike!)
  18. ShortBusRuss

    Quiet Eye Theory

    I used to do the same thing, and would specifically focus on elements of license plates as I was driving to the pool hall to practice. I have a theory about this. From an evolutionary perspective, what we call "dead stroke", and other sports/games have various different names for, is a state...
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    Dechaine vs Krause

    Can someone post the link when they get it? I cannot access Facebook from work...
  20. ShortBusRuss

    Seeking Input: Archer ‘93 vs. Today

    Ehhh.... I think that a main factor is that the older cloth almost always came with bigger pockets, and as a result, lots of players never were under any real pressure to really work on having a laser straight stroke. And actually... Slower cloth is inherently more friendly to poorer strokes on...
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