Chalk stains in clothes

Joseph Ortega

Joseph Ortega

Daddy's little girl
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I am the type of player that overchalks after each shot and the results are always very messy. I always end up with BOTH hands as green as can be, especially my bridge hand. I also wear a plain white T most of the time whether I am playing or not. The bottom of my white shirts are always stained green and since it is just powder I dont see why the stains dont just come right out when I wash. I just did a load of whites and everything white that I own now has a greenish hue that I cant get out.

Does anyone else have this problem? How do yall fix it?
 
1. Try a different style of chalking. Hold the chalk in one hand and the cue in the other (not vertically). Look at the tip and paint the bald spots with little brush strokes. No need to grind any holes in the chalk. This way, loose chalk dust falls away from both your hands and the cue shaft.

2. Wash your hands more often. Take a slightly damp paper towel with you from the restroom and use it to quickly wipe down your shaft to remove any chalk/grime. The cloth should not be wet enough to make your shaft feel wet after half a dozen rapid strokes.

3. If the rails and skirt of the table are very dirty, this WILL stain light colored clothes. This is the fault of the establishment and you may want to point this out if this is happening to you.

4. Don't wear white!!
 
kilojo420 said:
I am the type of player that overchalks after each shot and the results are always very messy. I always end up with BOTH hands as green as can be, especially my bridge hand. I also wear a plain white T most of the time whether I am playing or not. The bottom of my white shirts are always stained green and since it is just powder I dont see why the stains dont just come right out when I wash. I just did a load of whites and everything white that I own now has a greenish hue that I cant get out.

Does anyone else have this problem? How do yall fix it?
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I like to wear white, also. One thing I found to be helpful was to wipe the table-top edges down before every game and then make sure everyone does their chalking AWAY from the table, so the chalk dust doesn't coat the table so thickly. When you lean over the table, that pretty white t-shirt becomes a magnet for any dust on the table.

We started using the brown chalk. It's not as grainy as the green. It is much smoother and doesn't seem to stain nearly as much.

And yes, gently wiping the tip is MUCH more effective and tidy than overchalking and it doesn't take long to notice the difference in your shots, as well as your clothes (and the extended life of your chalk cube, if you use your own). ;)

The biggest problem with the brown or tan chalk is that some places only allow certain colors of chalk (usually blue or green) to be used on their tables. We've found very few to be that picky, but it happens. :(

Best of luck with finding more white t-shirts in the dryer in the future! :D
 
I also have the same problem, chalk all over my hands and clothes. I have never had a problem with it staining though, no matter what the color clothing. I always wash my clothes with tide with bleach alternative, along with oxyclean. That combination will clean just about anything you could possibly get on your clothes. Using that combo, I also never seperate my colors from whites. It cleans everything and even if colors run they still will not stain your whites. Try it a few times and you will see. This is not a sales pitch for laundry detergent!
 
You brush chalk on

the tip, you don't screw or grind it on. 3 or 4 brush strokes and turn the cue as you do it will sufficiently chalk your cue evenly. I try to never use chalk
that is more than a third of the way used to keep from getting it on my ferrule. Any good Pool player knows that you always keep your ferrule clean, otherwise it looks like a washed car with dirty wheels and chrome.

My hands are not the problem so much as the back lining of my left front pocket where I keep my money. All my shorts and jeans get a bluish tint at this particular place. Not a problem for blue, but khaki, white, and other light colored shorts, or slacks, this is a problem.

I guess I have to breakdown and use Clorox on the whites, and Clorox 2 on the colored ones, but I am rather elementary when it comes to laundry .. lol
 
As you can tell from my avatar, I tend to use the chalk until I've worn a hole all the way thru it. Actually, I'll use it until it breaks apart into pieces. It all depends on how you use it.

I never have to clean my ferrules because of chalk stains because I use brush strokes and I NEVER chalk up over my table. I was really surprised how clean my table stays since I stopped chalking over the table.

When I do get chalk on my clothes, my washing machine has always been able to clean it off.

My beagle got ahold of a cube of chalk once and had blue all over himself and the carpet. It came right up with a little water and mild soap. Bad beagle!:p
 
kilojo420 said:
... How do yall fix it?
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I just put my dirty shirts in the laundry basket and miraculously in a day or two they show up clean in my bureau draw. :rolleyes:
 
Do not over-chalk and do not chalk over any part of the table.
 
I'm just having fun, but this is great; Lanudy tips for billiards players!

What's next on the AZ? :rolleyes:
 
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