Red Circle Cue Balls
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Luminescence & Translucency.
The Aramith red circle cueball is made from a specific carom resin from Saluc (a Simonis company now) that has some level of translucency. A certain percentage of light can transmit through this resin. In my industry, we call it "light transmissivity." The Diamond company uses this material attribute in their SmartTable cueball return mechanism.
One easy way to spot it (pardon the pun) is to check the red circle itself. You should be able to see the red underneath the surface, like a tattoo bleed out/blowout.
Freddie <~~~ scienmorphically speaking
Thank you. This is the info that I was looking for! A friend and I both have red circle q balls from the same place that look different. We both got them from the same place, but a long time apart. His is darker and weighs a quarter oz more according to my scale @ 5.92.
i know you know what you are talking about but I couldn't help thinking of that Al Sharpton skit from SNL with all those 5 dollar words you were tossing around
i know you know what you are talking about but I couldn't help thinking of that Al Sharpton skit from SNL with all those 5 dollar words you were tossing around
I get dumber every day. I need to dip into the smart jar once in a while to keep my wits about me.
Cool ... green for that. I see the logo has the same thing, but I really can't see it on the red DOT.
Obviously a "black dot" .. but seriously .. really hard to depict this stuff in pictures.
I can't see that second layer on those ones. Not knocking cyclops .. just sayin
The Cyclops Cue Ball has the similar attribute in regards to light transmissivity. A Diamond table rep showed me this by holding a flashlight up to one side of a Cyclop cue ball in the darker setting under the pool table - the entire ball glowed brightly.
Also - in regards to the difference between a genuine Aramith red circle cue ball and the much cheaper lookalike: the lookalike will get dirty and show permanent chalk marks much faster and most of the lookalikes have a noticeably whiter color than the Aramith cue ball.
The light transmissivity of the cue ball is how the Diamond Smart table knows how to distinguish the cue ball from the rest of the calls. The way I understand it - An optic sensor in the table senses the amount of light transmissivity to recognize the cue ball
No kidding. I was showing the different look between a real red circle and just about anything else. The one on the right is a blue dot, by the way.
All the best,
WW
From just about EVERYONE I've ever talked to abut it, I'm in the huge minority but my favorite has always been the blue dot / circle.
You've been around a while, and you're old school, just like me. The older Blue Dot, when still made in Albany, NY, was a replacement for the Centennial Blue Circle, also made in Albany. The reason for this is no matter how far back you go, the Blue Circle generally wasn't available on its own.
So, the Blue Dot cue ball was pretty prevalent in pool rooms that had Centennials, because the Blue Circles were worn out. We know the compounds now are different between Blue Circle and Blue Dot, but that's Aramith in Belgium. I don't think information is available on what the compounds were when they were made in Albany. We're going back to the 70s here. I also had no problems with both Blue Circle and Blue Dot.
All the best,
WW
I have the red logo one that came with my Aramith set, and man that thing holds the chalk spots, and they’re hard to get off th cue ball. The red circle and the measles ball seem to stay much cleaner.