Cloth and ball cleaning
- Thread starter Brizzle
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I followed another AZ posters example and made a ball cleaner out of 2 orange 5 gallon buckets and a 29.00 buffer, all from Home Depot. A little Aramith Ball Cleaner or similar product works very well. I mean clean is clean right?
Real King Cobra gave me some good cloth cleaning advice. A easy going vacuum cleaner, not the super sucking shop vac type. A micro fleece towel to wipe it down and once in a while a damp one, but not wet. I remove a lot of chalk with a dry micro fleece towel.
I have a camel hair brush that I use when all done to brush the cloth the same direction.
Works for me just fine. Get some Magic chalk. Lasts forever and not messy.
I followed another AZ posters example and made a ball cleaner out of 2 orange 5 gallon buckets and a 29.00 buffer, all from Home Depot. A little Aramith Ball Cleaner or similar product works very well. I mean clean is clean right?
Real King Cobra gave me some good cloth cleaning advice. A easy going vacuum cleaner, not the super sucking shop vac type. A micro fleece towel to wipe it down and once in a while a damp one, but not wet. I remove a lot of chalk with a dry micro fleece towel.
I have a camel hair brush that I use when all done to brush the cloth the same direction.
Works for me just fine. Get some Magic chalk. Lasts forever and not messy.
Lightly damp towel only if really really needed.
Else, use vacuum cleaner with "just enough" power, don't go for high (use an adjustable one) and do that (1 minute) after each session or daily.
That way dust cannot settle into the cloth and everywhere else.
Balls cleaner is nice, but a lot of work or money.
Again usually use microfibre cloth and use more time on the white.
If really dirty can be sprayed with Isopropanol or dishwashing detergent, rinsed and rubbed dry again carefully, too.
Use Magic chalk, yes. :grin:
Else, use vacuum cleaner with "just enough" power, don't go for high (use an adjustable one) and do that (1 minute) after each session or daily.
That way dust cannot settle into the cloth and everywhere else.
Balls cleaner is nice, but a lot of work or money.
Again usually use microfibre cloth and use more time on the white.
If really dirty can be sprayed with Isopropanol or dishwashing detergent, rinsed and rubbed dry again carefully, too.
Use Magic chalk, yes. :grin:
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I managed a couple of pool rooms a while back, and we vacuumed the tables every day. We used an old canister-type vacuum with a long hose and a brush attachment similar to the pic. It did not have a "beater bar"...just a simple brush. The rails were wiped down with a damp cloth.
We also polished the balls after each use. Back then, not many rooms did this, so there wasn't specific products available for this purpose. We used liquid car polish/wax with a carpet lined motorized polisher.
Hope this helps!
We also polished the balls after each use. Back then, not many rooms did this, so there wasn't specific products available for this purpose. We used liquid car polish/wax with a carpet lined motorized polisher.
Hope this helps!
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I have a brush like Ratdaddy's. Hot water (as hot as you can stand) a micro fiber cloth, and a little woolite mixed in the water to wipe down the cloth.
The above method was also what RKK advised if I recall, either way it does a nice job of cleaning the cloth.
The above method was also what RKK advised if I recall, either way it does a nice job of cleaning the cloth.
My experience has been if the chalk dust on the table is stirred up, which is inevitable when cleaning, there's gonna be dust on top of the cloth that needs a damp cloth or else the balls will collect a lot of dust quickly.
I've always used a damp, lint free cloth at the end of cleaning the table.
If you wipe down the table w a white cloth at the end, the cloth will tell you if it was needed, the chalk will showw.
I've always used a damp, lint free cloth at the end of cleaning the table.
If you wipe down the table w a white cloth at the end, the cloth will tell you if it was needed, the chalk will showw.