Anyone use a Roomba to vacuum a pool table

SomeDeadGuy

SomeDeadGuy

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I saw in Billiards Digest Dr. Dave using a Roomba to vacuum a pool table. Sounds like a great Idea. Anyone trie using one and how did it go?
 
I do for my Diamond. Works fantastic.
After 18 months, I’ve seen no evidence of any detrimental effect on the cloth. YMMV.


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It's great at the combination shots.....

Do you just use it on your Diamond or do you use it on your floors as well?
 
I am sure Predator will come out with a model made "just" for a pool table. It will be $2,000, but it WILL have their LOGO!
 
SomeDeadGuy said:
I saw in Billiards Digest Dr. Dave using a Roomba to vacuum a pool table. Sounds like a great Idea. Anyone trie using one and how did it go?
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They run the Roomba regularly on the pool tables at the room I play at.

It does a relatively decent job.

Lou Figueroa
 
chenjy9 said:
I thought using vacuums on table cloth is bad?
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Too bad Roomba can’t get back to the charger by itself (or get to the pocket edges). The low-power vacuum likely won’t pull up the slate sealer, but the rotating brush may eventually prove damaging. Also, unlike a human, it can’t concentrate on the worst chalk marks.
 
Have you guys seen the Roomba-da-Boomba gambling thing?? Crazy.
You get a ball and you bet. If the Roomba hits your ball you win.
 
I used a different brand. The problem was that the fine chalk dust would eventually coat the sensors and pretty much everything, so the thing wouldn't function correctly unless I took it apart and cleaned it. That kind of ruined the whole idea of me not needing to mess with anything and just let it do everything for me. LOL

I went back to a smaller ShopVac and an attachment with a brush. Doesn't take too long.
 
If you change your felt on a good schedule then it’s no problem. If you stretch it out too far, you’re exacerbating a problem.
 
chenjy9 said:
I thought using vacuums on table cloth is bad?
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If the cloth installer uses plaster of Paris to seal the joints between the slate then don't vacuum. The plaster will crack and get loose and the vacuum will pull it up. If the cloth installer is competent, then a vacuum is no problem. At some major tournaments the tables are vacuumed before every match.

Of course at some tournaments neither the balls nor the cloth are ever cleaned -- sounds like a good advertising opportunity for Roomba.
 
Bob Jewett said:
If the cloth installer uses plaster of Paris to seal the joints between the slate then don't vacuum. The plaster will crack and get loose and the vacuum will pull it up. If the cloth installer is competent, then a vacuum is no problem. At some major tournaments the tables are vacuumed before every match.

Of course at some tournaments neither the balls nor the cloth are ever cleaned -- sounds like a good advertising opportunity for Roomba.
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A vacuum won't pull-up slate sealer unless the vac is nuclear-powered. Every mechanic i know uses Bondo. POP went out with the HulaHoop. ;)
 
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