You've never seen it done... you've never heard of it being done ... You've never tried it yourself...
Everything you said thus far is out of ignorance. Sorry if that offends you, but that the reality of it. I'm done with you.
Dents in the felt
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Everything you said thus far is out of ignorance. Sorry if that offends you, but that the reality of it. I'm done with you.
I don't drop the balls on the nose of the cushions to check the slate for level. IF I'm even going to roll a ball to check for level, I use 3 balls lined up and shoot the first one with the cue ball, then watch the roll of the 3rd one. And no, dropping the ball on the cloth don't dent the cloth. First of all, cloth can't retain a DENT because it has no memory. Jump shots are the hardest you'll ever damage cloth in one motion, repeated jumping from the same spot will burn through the cloth eventually from friction induced wear. Only amateurs, people who've seen someone else drop the ball on the nose of the cushions do that.
The cushion method is easy also. I saw it done a dozen years or so and use it often.
I don't know why it wouldn't be valuable to roll balls on the bare slate. It will pick up any tiny steps at the slate joints and any slight roll off that would be masked by cloth. Of course fancy levels are the gold standard but they eventually drift out of calibration and are only able to tell the story of the area they are placed.
I rolled balls for hours when I did my own table because I didn't have multiple known levels. It took me a long time but so what, I do one table every 5 years. I built a little "stimpmeter" type ramp to roll without spin...not as fancy but similar to Dr. Dave's shown below.
Again, if you have a bunch of precision levels...great. If not or if you just want a double check then what could possibly be more definite than slow rolling balls?
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hahaha........... point taken
I have bounced the cb off the cushion nose to present it to the breaker, after I rack. You can manipulate both the vertical and horizontal reactions, if you wanna get nutty with it.
I guess I can see how it might put different stressors on the cushion backing/ subrail glue...bit if does, your issues are bigger than the bounce.
As cool as I look when I bounce it to my opponent, I prefer to throw it toward them and spin it backwards. It bounces a couple times and then stops dead in it's trackels. Then they say, 'damn. That's cool'.
Lol...check out the recently uploaded accu-stats 1p match between hall/ daulton . The bottom r) pocket rolls off BAD.
No fast forwarding and you have to watch it all. Let me know how that works out for you, PLEASE.
Like i'm going to watch the whole match. I'll get right on that. I don't doubt what you're saying. All i can go by is what i've seen. I've also played on the DCC tables in the big room after hrs and they all played great. I guess everyone can dog it sometimes.
Those are Cyclop balls. I think that might be significant.
Did you watch it? I'm not sure enough time has elapsed (eek!!)
I don'n believe it was the balls at all...in this case.
The first gen. Cyclop cueballs did have issues.
C'mon, man! Effort it.Time link?
Not gonna watch whole thing. I'd rather have root canal.
The 2nd or 3rd game is like 2hrs long.
Thrilling.
Wow, I didn't know expensive levels could eventually "drift" out of level and eventually be worthless! Have you ever heard the term "calibration"?I don't know why it wouldn't be valuable to roll balls on the bare slate. It will pick up any tiny steps at the slate joints and any slight roll off that would be masked by cloth. Of course fancy levels are the gold standard but they eventually drift out of calibration and are only able to tell the story of the area they are placed.
I rolled balls for hours when I did my own table because I didn't have multiple known levels. It took me a long time but so what, I do one table every 5 years. I built a little "stimpmeter" type ramp to roll without spin...not as fancy but similar to Dr. Dave's shown below.
Again, if you have a bunch of precision levels...great. If not or if you just want a double check then what could possibly be more definite than slow rolling balls?
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Have you ever heard the words "slate grinding marks"? To respond any more to your post would be like lowering my intelligence to that of 3rd grader!
While the above is inarguably genius...I'd go for the portable version below.
It is $150, but must be welll worth it.
LMAO...$150. If i recall, it was $15.