I played one pool room and the idiot room owner got the brilliant idea to spray scotch guard on the pool table cloth.
. HR uses the 760 blend but is woven like 860. IMO its the best Simonis cloth for big tables. A little faster than 860(climate dependent), shows fewer burns and lasts longer. ANDY988 to me plays virtually the same and is about 100 or so less in 9ft. ANDY has two new cloths out so i'm not sure which one is the new version of 988. UD: its called 'Premier'. Omega stocks it. Not the deal it used to be. Almost as high as Simonis.
Agree that you don’t want to do that yourself. I have a Brunswick Centennial that is manufactured with a teflon coating and plays with no problem, and the general opinion of the teflon coated Championship cloths is pretty good.I played one pool room and the idiot room owner got the brilliant idea to spray scotch guard on the pool table cloth.
Needless to say the application was not even and the chemicals made sections extremely fast and other sections slow depending upon how much chemical used.
It was a total nightmare.
Chemically treated billiard cloth is the last thing I would ever choose......
Kd
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Andy is out of Taiwan, right? That is a whole different quality and manufacturing ethos than China.
Not familiar with it. But, curious
if you experience the same issues with humidity and the cloth???
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I’m not the person in a location to ask about high humidity and how it affects play. Our area, high altitude southwest Colorado, ranges from low humidity in the summer to very low humidity in the winter. We typically run the air conditioning for a few hours each year just to make sure it still works.Not familiar with it. But, curiousif you experience the same issues with humidity and the cloth???
Weather has changed and air conditioning gets cut on. Anyway, the moisture seems to make the cloth play short or bank shorter.
Anyone else notice this with pool cloth? I would love pool to switch to heated slate and stop being cheap.......
Kd
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The obvious elephant
in the room is the desperate need for a official set of standards for the sport regulating every aspect of the game. Rubber backed cloth is pretty much deader than HulaHoop and i know of no rooms much less tournaments that use resin balls. I get your point but things aren't that bad. Look, players always have practice time before they fire the gun. If they don't take the time to figure out the conditions/equipment that's on them. Your never going to have 100% uniform set-ups. Ever.The obvious elephantin the room is the desperate need for a official set of standards for the sport regulating every aspect of the game.
So, tired of facilities with different cushion heights / rubber backed cloth / phenolic vs resin ball compositions / table heights with 1 foot variances /
These things are essential. Too many manufacturers lobbying for their variant of the product and nothing but players and the sport suffering....
Kd
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One room owner has 30 plus barbox tables and uses the same cloth on the 7 big tables.
Done it a lot. Don't much care for it. Its like watching ricochets in a western. Its easy after a little practice. Make a lot on the snap.One room owner has 30 plus barbox tables and uses the same cloth on the 7 big tables.
Ever try playing pool on a 9 footer with barbox cloth on the table?
It ain't fun
Kd
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