Ball temperature

My 2 cents. We bring our own Aramith's to league play. Most of the time the balls are in the LO's car all week in sub freezing temps. When you rack the balls they are cold as all hell in your hands and I notice zero difference in playability.
 
FrankieD said:
My 2 cents. We bring our own Aramith's to league play. Most of the time the balls are in the LO's car all week in sub freezing temps. When you rack the balls they are cold as all hell in your hands and I notice zero difference in playability.
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Exactly. No truer words have been uttered in this thread.
 
garczar said:
temp changes in a pool room NEVER vary enough to make phenolic balls change in ANY way. tables are a different animal altogether. changes in bed/rubber temp. can/do make the balls go short/long off the cushions. that's why all modern 3c tables are heated, to try and keep speed/rebound constant.
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My favorite one pocket table when strangers wanted to play had the blast of air from an old stand-up AC unit passing over one side of the table and directly onto the other side. Even the end rails were warm on one end cold on the other. That old unit had copper coils and the air coming out was near freezing, substantially colder than modern units. The unit was huge but undersized for a busy pool hall so it ran nonstop.

Knowing the rails on that table or at least that they were different was worth a bunch. The craziest playing almost new Diamond I ever encountered. Reminds me, RKC installed that table. I should have ragged him about how badly it played when he came back through!

Hu
 
book collector said:
The billiard players must have thought it made a difference ,the old tables were heated, I think they also tried to keep the balls within a certain temperature,
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That was more for the rubber….cold makes it not responsive enough, dampness makes the angles short.
 
book collector said:
The billiard players must have thought it made a difference ,the old tables were heated, I think they also tried to keep the balls within a certain temperature,
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The 'Old' 3C tables were Not heated!

Brunswick tables from the 1900's - 1988.

In the USA it's Only since around the late 80's
 
ShootingArts said:
When I was a young man my temperature was 96.8 and my pulse fifty. The doctors said I should live forever. Wrong, it just feels that way sometimes! When I was a young man a new doctor took my pulse and it was idling along the usual fifty beats a minute. He asked me, "are you an athlete?" "Do I look like an athlete?" I had the typical pool player's manly physique. "Do I look like an athlete?" He was embarrassed. "I thought you might be a football player or something."

I dated a girl that was a physical therapist. Never knew how low her blood pressure was, it wouldn't read on most cuffs and it embarrassed her for some reason. Nothing wrong with her, it had been super low all of her life. Mine got super low for a few years, I think the lowest reading was fifties over thirty-nine but sometimes the digital cuff just gave an error message, it said one of us was dead!

Hu
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fastone371 said:
Cats are actually warmer than humans, I think around 105 is normal for them, wouldn't that make them toasty cats instead of cool cats??
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Pussys are spose to be hot.😉
 
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