Click in the cue stick.

Thunderball

Thunderball

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As you guys know I bought a Pat Diviney cue a while back and love it.Recently,a few weeks now,it picked up a "click" upon contact with the cueball.Fwiw the wife says the cue was dropped,but I'm not sure.I do know I shot with it for weeks before it ever started clicking.

Its not there all the time,maybe 50% or so and it sounds about like the kind of slight high pitched "click" you may get when the ferrel catches the cue ball when shooting very low draw shots if that helps you get the idea....
or maybe a better discription would be:Its very much,if not exactly,the sound you ferrel makes after its cracked,but you don't know it yet.

Thing is...I can't find a dam thing wrong with it upon inspection.Nobody else can either for that matter....But everyone can hear it...(though not every time)

So I ask...what the hell can it be?Ferrel busted under the tip?

I called Pat about it and I'll be shipping it back after the holidays to have the tip and ferrel replaced and a very fair price.(Great guy to talk to btw)..but he said he'd only seen it once before and he never quite got to the bottom of it....he just knew a new tip and ferrel fixed it on that cue after a new tip alone did not.

I'm not asking so I'll know how to fix it,I'll let the man himself do that,but I am curious about what you guys have seen in the past.It looks to be in great shape from the outside,but sounds like it must be busted half the time.

Thoughts?
 
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Thunderball FWIW I had a similar problem a while back and it drove me insane to the point I thought the tip was and re tipped it but the problem continued so I took the rubber pad off the butt of my cue and tightened the weight bolt and hey presto problem solved, so maybe consider tightening the weight bolt to see if that makes a difference.

Just my 2 cents

9ball
 
Wow...not something I had remotely considered.Never would have either.Thanks 9 ball for the idea.Gonna go check on that right now actually.I'll post back either way in a few short minutes.

Heres hopin thats it...sure would be a sweet,easy solution.

Thanks for the idea,
Tball
 
Same problem

9 ball said:
Thunderball FWIW I had a similar problem a while back and it drove me insane to the point I thought the tip was and re tipped it but the problem continued so I took the rubber pad off the butt of my cue and tightened the weight bolt and hey presto problem solved, so maybe consider tightening the weight bolt to see if that makes a difference.

Just my 2 cents

9ball
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I have a Z90 Viking I bought in the mid 70's and it does the same thing. I play with it and it has a ping on contact then I put it away for awhile and when I take it out agian to play with it the ping goes away. It does it with both shafts so it must be in the butt. I never thought about the weight bolt. I will check it soon. Thanks for the lead, rep for you.
 
Well...I pulled off the plug and found an empty threaded hole (1/4'' maybe).I put a screw driver about eight inches deep and didn't hit squat so this has me thinking there is room for weight bolts,but none present.

Here's where it gets a little more interesting (if your're interested so far).

I have only had this cue apart a few times.I few times to show my boys the pin and joint and once for league.BUT I have not had it apart since it started "clicking"....well I don't think I have anyway.

Anyhow...and I noticed this one at least one of times I took it apart before...some "debris" fell out of the joint.Not big stuff and not lots....but enough to easily notice on the felt.Kinda like crumb sized pieces of wood.Some bigger then others but maybe 20 "crumbs" in all.

This got me to awonderin....could it have felt tight due to the debis in the joint?Maybe although it was tight,it wasn't seated on all the threads evenly?

I put it back together and started hitting balls,and then some more.Fast,loose,hard,soft.Top,Bottom,left to right whatever...pick one.

I hit 50 balls or so in the five minutes before coming back in to post my reply to 9ball.
Not one click.Not a hint of a click.

Now...all I did was remove the stopper and probe the hole.Put the stopper back in and pulled the cue apart.Emptied the crumbs from the hole in doing so,blew it out to be sure and put it back together.Nothing more.No click.

I'm not sold on this simple fix just yet,but I'm 90% of the way there...the click was there in a big way half the time..now not at all.

So new questions:
Why are there wood crumbs in my joint? (at least twice)
Could it cause my "click"? (news to me if so,Ida bet a kidney it was in the tip)

Fwiw I think its the G10 pin into wood threads (looks like to me) in the shaft.

So...it may be fixed which would be VERY cool.But are there bigger issues to address like the overall cause of the debris?
 
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9 ball said:
Thunderball FWIW I had a similar problem a while back and it drove me insane to the point I thought the tip was and re tipped it but the problem continued so I took the rubber pad off the butt of my cue and tightened the weight bolt and hey presto problem solved, so maybe consider tightening the weight bolt to see if that makes a difference.

Just my 2 cents

9ball
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I had the same experience....
 
Hey Thunderball I think I would contact Pat and see if he thinks you need to send the cue to him so he can look at the joint, something flaking in the joint will probably be covered for free. When have you been to Breakers ?--Leonard
 
He did say he had and was sending it back if need be.

I was only going to add that generally speaking , 'noises' only come from the Ferrel , Joint or Weight bolt area. Weight bolt (Loose or vibrating) being the most common in my experience. Ferrel cracks don't usually hide for very long and then you have the joint. Most times there, again in my experience, it come down to what you may have found. Debris interferring with the 2 cue halves fully locking down with tension. Sometimes it's as simple as a 'dry' joint where the threads make noise during the hit.

Sounds like your on the right track , good luck.
 
Have you tried bouncing the shaft on it's side on the table?
If it still makes a sound, it might be loose ferrule, insert or collar
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A friend of mine had a cue that made a funny noise. It took a few different cue repairmen before one discovered a small hair line crack in the tenon.

If you bought 2 shafts try the other one, if not find someone that has the same type of pin and try a different shaft on it. If the noise is still there you know it is in the butt section and not the shaft.

You should also try the shaft on a different cue and see if it still makes that noise. Switching them around will help you narrow it down.
 
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