760 isn't fast enough - yet...

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azbluemach1

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I have 760 on my table at home. Honestly I don't get to play that much so the cloth isnt getting 'worn in' at all, and it still plays pretty slow compared to the room I play in.

Is there anything I can do to speed the cloth up a bit? Just carefully vacuumed it and wiped it down with a damp cloth, but still no love.
 
azbluemach1 said:
I have 760 on my table at home. Honestly I don't get to play that much so the cloth isnt getting 'worn in' at all, and it still plays pretty slow compared to the room I play in.

Is there anything I can do to speed the cloth up a bit? Just carefully vacuumed it and wiped it down with a damp cloth, but still no love.
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alot of people confuse cushion speed with table speed, perhaps its your cushions which are slow. Also I recommend keeping your environment dry. Humity will slow down cloth. And keep your cloth dry.
 
azbluemach1 said:
I have 760 on my table at home. Honestly I don't get to play that much so the cloth isnt getting 'worn in' at all, and it still plays pretty slow compared to the room I play in.

Is there anything I can do to speed the cloth up a bit? Just carefully vacuumed it and wiped it down with a damp cloth, but still no love.
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You would need to define "slow".
Check if your cloth is loose. If so the install was screwed or you have a humidity problem.
 
Well, Im not going to aruge with the experts, but the cloth seems to be well installed, and I live in phoenix, AZ, so humiditiy shouldn't be a problem.

My cloth still seems "wooly"

The cloth at my local room seems 'slick'.

I figured theirs was just more "worn in" than mine.

Ill run a "stimpmeter" test on it without letting the rails come into play...
 
There has bee someone running around Arizona putting Simonis on upside down, and other worsed cloth. There was a pool room in Gilbert with about 40 brand new tables out of the box that had worsted cloth (knock off Simonis) installed on all of them upside down. Also a few years back there was a tournament at ASU that had a few rips of Simonis donated that was also installed fuzzy side up.
 
azbluemach1 said:
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My cloth still seems "wooly"
The cloth at my local room seems 'slick'.
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The top side of 860/760 is smooth and slick and the grain is tight..
My guess is your cloth is on upside down if it feels/looks otherwise.
 
to find out if you have it upside down you can also black light the cloth ...you should see simonis 760 light up ....

if you don't see that then this is not simonis or it is upside down.
a close up picture of the cloth will also help...

imo, simonis is pretty much as slick as it will be right out of the box...you shouldn't need a break in period ....
 
matteroner said:
to find out if you have it upside down you can also black light the cloth ...you should see simonis 760 light up ...
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are you serious? Is it the same story with other Simonis cloth types? That's the first time I ever hear about black-lighting it.
 
The UV marking also has the serial number of the bolt that the cloth came from so it can be tracked for the most part from the mill to the end user. :cool:
 
Funny story...we didn't know about the UV markings until several years ago when we recovered a table in the loft above a guy's garage. Everything in the place had been repainted with blacklight reactive paint. Posters everywhere...even had a really cool old player piano that he had painted the ivory keys yellow and the ebony keys orange.

He even found the blacklight reactive set of pool balls. The table got Black 860. Looked pretty cool. Then we turned out the lights and turned on the blacklights to check everything out! LOL Big purple stripe all the way down the middle of his brand new cloth. That was the only guy I've ever known to be pissed he had the real deal.
 
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