Well I am going to explain this one more time.
If you have a table that needs to be recovered, try dying it. If it don't work you were going to get it recovered any way so just get it recovered. What I suggest only costs $4 and 40 minutes of your time. Remember you can't hurt it.
Next thing is ask yourself who has told you not to do this, well let's see, mechanics, billiard cloth distributors. I wonder why they say not to do this maybe it is because if people do this the sales will drop by 100%.
Why is this so hard to believe. So many skeptics.
I would like all of you that has said this won't work please explain why and let's be serious.
No one said anything about the balls lol.
I AM a Professional pool table mechanic, and one of the best world wide, so I have a few questions for you. 1) does re-dyeing' the cloth to look new, slow down Championship 3030 from playing faster and faster as it wears down? 2) does dyeing' the cloth to look new, fill in the ditches that start forming along the cushions from balls digging in the cloth as the rebound from the cushions? 3) does dyeing' the cloth to look new, mean the balls won't roll off when they're racked up, which is caused by the cloth wearing thin right where the balls sit after being racked. 4) Will dyeing' the cloth to look new, fill in the divot under the head ball so it don't roll off when racked?
See, when you start trying to imply that the cost of changing the cloth on pool tables is to high because of us pool table mechanics, and you start your great idea of cheating your customers out of their chance to play on newly recovered pool tables, just so YOU can save a few bucks, do you discount the cost to the customers every time you dye the cloth to make them tables look new, or do you just keep right on charging them....putting you into that class of room owners that are to cheap to maintain their equipment for the paying customers, yet keep on charging them, maybe even during that 5 year period....raising the cost of playing pool, because the price of dye went up!