Cue Tip Protector

RRfireblade said:
Your implication that some of us are disrespectful is insulting and I don't see where anyone choose to personally insult you for your choices.

As I stated, it's common practice at every pool hall I play at for the employees to sweep chalk dust from the tables onto the floor to be vacuumed up later. Wiping off your tip in that exact seem manner and location is not at all disrespectful or even frowned upon by anyone I know in the business and I'm friends with everyone responsible for that job at every room I play in.

Please don't make false judgements against people you know absolutely nothing about.

Thanks.
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I have do this also, But, you are pushing chalk into the carpet not just sweeping dust on it. there is a difference.
 
Been playing many years and never really thought about the bottom of my case. I know mine is blue, never put anything over the tip.---Smitty
 
good luck - looks like a number of good solutions have been posted.
 
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dontlitethat said:
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Always wipes tips off before going onto case.
I'm using a loaner case and the interior is sickly smothered in chalk dust.
Cues are covered in it. Sickening

Rob.M
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I am the complete opposite. The shaft on my old player is about as blue as the tip. I love the look of that. It makes me feel like it has a patina type finish. Cant wait until the new shaft is blue. Probably going to take a while since I switched cases.
 
I wet my thumb and rub the tip. Wipe with a paper towel.

I wouldn't want to be prying anything off the ferrule that is tight enuff to stay put around the ferrule and tip.

One of these days the tip will come off along with the protector. Constant pulling upwards
could damage the layers of the tip. Tips are meant to be compressed, not the other way around.

Have fun with it tho Buddy.
 
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A friend of mine came up with these several years ago and they work great. They are used to protect the end of screws. He had to special order them to get the right size. The standard sizes were either too tight or too loose.
 
These are tip toppers. I've found a China website that sells them.

dardusm said:
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A friend of mine came up with these several years ago and they work great. They are used to protect the end of screws. He had to special order them to get the right size. The standard sizes were either too tight or too loose.
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In 23+ years of playing pool, I have to say I have never seen anyone use anything like these things.
But they look to be a good idea and do something useful. If I had one of those multi-hundred dollar leather cases I would probably get these, although I would thing that they'd end up falling off the tip and end up at the bottom of the case quite a bit. Since I use a $100 case I won in a raffle here with regular foam insides, I don't really pay attention to the case aside from making sure I don't rip something.

Most of the time I do the wipe chalk off on the carpet thing, but I do see if the carpet is in good shape or not first. If it is, I wipe it off with something else if I bother to clean the tip at all before putting the cue away.
 
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