It's possible the cloth is not right enough. The table is brand new with brand new balls and the house is only one year old. Located in N.C. so it is not cold either. Thanks for your thoughts. All opinions are appreciated...
Black light on true simonis cloth
- Thread starter Smutzc
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I know two people that went to Florida (we're from Idaho) and the AC was blowing cold on half of the table and Florida's humidity is so bad they could tell from one end of the table to the other the speed was different - I was not there to confirm but I believe it.
Today me and a buddy were playing for a couple of hours at my house and as it cooled down outside and I turned the air off and opened the windows and my buddy literally had a ball stop 1/4" before falling and we both knew that ball should've went. After some discussion we realized I had shut the AC off. My house is on a concrete slab so the AC (2 vents) is directly above the table and blows directly on it. I can 100% tell the difference. Would he had made it with the AC on, we don't know, but we definitely changed our style of play because of it.
From several tables I played on, the cheaper stuff (not Champion but the more generic brands) have a rougher feel to it than Simonis and also have a stronger smell to it. A pool hall near me redid their tables with some Chinese cloth and the whole place had that plastic chemical smell you get from some products, and the tables felt almost like what a sharkskin feels like, not quite sandpaper but rough. That was not the only place that I ran across with with, but they did a bunch of tables at once so the smell and feel was really noticeable there.
My ho town is on an island and the fog can roll in down the harbor and into town at anytime. As kids we used to hustle players that came through by opening the doors when the fog rolled in. Within 30 minutes the table would tighten up and they would jaw balls they made earlier.. Use to screw them out of town boys bad!
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I didn’t read whole thread. Mine is right side up, but I don’t think they stretched 860hr correctly which is making it a bit slower. Simonis should also be on outer seam every meter if memory serves me.
Willowbrook Wolfy
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Have you ever seen one of those crotcheting templates? The ones with all the square holes? Like a Santa clause that you use yarn for? The back is fuzzy and the front nice and clean when you are done. Something like that is my best guess.
Loose rail bolts will make the table play slow as well.