Had a 15 ball break in two - someone else playing.
Ball temperature
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I had a table as a young tweenager in Ohio , in the winter it got Dang cold, below zero, I always noticed that I played a lot worse , when it got to the extremes, and it was a pain in the butt trying to keep from moving balls with my gloves.
Sure, but I think it is moisture that will change things. If the cold comes with damp, everything will get stickier. I notice this when I bring my set of balls from a cold car into a warm room. Condensation.
That's why I got a heated waterbed.
I've sprayed lots of stuff on my balls over the years. Silicone wasn't one of them. Lol. Anybody remember 'Rush'??
The Old Jaybird
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98.6??
Awwwww! You do careHere ya go techies, get ur nerd on: https://forums.azbilliards.com/thre...in-the-cold-too-precise-data-included.470305/ Someone has already tested this, notice the TINY difference in size. Notice my quick retort. It still stands.
Cool down??? Firing at me pal?? I'm not mad just amazed at the lengths some will go to look a tad foolish. some of the stuff that pops up is just loony fringe material. Surprised justnumnuts hasn't chimed in , this is right up his alley. BTW, a quik search will teach you all you need to know on phenolic's resistance to temp changes. For a pool ball to change shape in any noticeable amount you'd have to go to massive temp swings, nothing you'd ever see in use. usedtoberich's chart show just how little they change in his test. Later folks, keep measuring your cold balls............................
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I played in a tournament last night in a room in Georgia where the balls were slightly damp and/or sticky. The AC was blowing COLD. At the start of every match, I'd wipe the whole set on my shirt. They were Aramith Super Pro. Surprisingly, they played exactly the same to me. I played my normal game. Either I'm not good enough to notice the difference, or there is no difference.
Its not all bad, there's less risk to sitting on them when they shrink.As my buddy says 'from boulders to bb's'
A negligible difference is still a detectable difference.
You know with that electronic measurement thing. 
Makes sense because I’m usually in the 97’s. Always thought I was running cold
Now I know
It appears the thermometers were not that far off. From the innerwebz:
“What everybody grew up learning, which is that our normal temperature is 98.6, is wrong,” said Dr. Julie Parsonnet, a professor of medicine as well as health research and policy at Stanford University School of Medicine.
The 98.6°F standard was established by a German doctor in 1851. Recent studies have indicated that’s too high; research on 35,000 British people found their average was 97.9°F.
Parsonnet’s study published this week in eLife. It found that temperature changes since 1851 reflect a historical pattern instead of an error. They contend the decrease is the result of environmental changes over the past 200 years that have affected human physiology.
Parsonnet looked at data from 1862 through 1930, 1971 through 1975, and 2007 through 2017. It included 677,423 temperature measurements.
The body temperature of men born in the 2000s is 1.06°F degrees lower, on average, than men born in the early 1800s. Women have temps about 0.58°F lower than those born in the 1890s. That means body temperatures declined 0.05°F every decade.
It would be hard to sneak in place but it would be funny to dip the one ball or the money ball in liquid nitrogen or oxygen. Both are cold enough that I believe a ball would shatter on impact if not before. Freeze a ball to the core in liquid a few hundred degrees below zero and what happens next should be fun, and dangerous as hell! Those liquid gases freeze most anything. A cushion shattering when you lag for the break would be funny too.
I know, I have a sick sense of humor. Now I am trying to figure out how to get a little liquid oxygen and alcohol together along with something to ignite it on the tip and cue ball. Anybody want to see a two hundred mile an hour break?
I hate to admit this, I am stone sober, just my imagination running wild. Where is Bill Nye the science guy when I need him? Death is an excuse for whiners!
Hu
I know, I have a sick sense of humor. Now I am trying to figure out how to get a little liquid oxygen and alcohol together along with something to ignite it on the tip and cue ball. Anybody want to see a two hundred mile an hour break?
I hate to admit this, I am stone sober, just my imagination running wild. Where is Bill Nye the science guy when I need him? Death is an excuse for whiners!
Hu