Has anyone tried the ThePro™ Pool Cue, Triad or Barringer ElkDud Tips?

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ThePro Pool Cue Tips (similar to LePro)

ThePro™ Pool Cue Tips are another Barringer cue toip to fight MAP from manufacturers such as Tweeten and their LePro cue tip. These are manufactured in the USA and produce a medium to medium hard tip extremely similar to Le Pro at a much more reasonable price point. These are 14mm.Tweeten Fibre...
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Triad Cue Tips

Introducing the all new Triad Cue Tip by Joe Barringer to compete with the ever popular Tweeten Triangle Cue Tips.As we all know, Tweeten Fibre Company (manufacturers of the Triangle Cue Tip) is a very difficult company to deal with, sort of stuck up and for no good reason. They have a niche...
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Barringer ElkDuds

These are Elk Master tips soaked in a solution of milk and then pressed under an inordinate amount of pressure to form an incredible hitting tip. These are a 14mm medium tip, no mushrooming, grips the ball like no other tip and holds chalk! You have to experience these for yourself!! These are...
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I never heard of these. BUT, they are made in the USA, $1 each, and "claim" to not be the junk that is in a typical box of LePro's, that explode when installing. I'd give them a try.

The real deal LePros and Triangle stink. If I ever got back into cue-repair (I did it several years ending 15 years ago), I'd not offer any 1 piece tips other than water buffalo.
 
iusedtoberich said:
I never heard of these. BUT, they are made in the USA, $1 each, and "claim" to not be the junk that is in a typical box of LePro's, that explode when installing. I'd give them a try.

The real deal LePros and Triangle stink. If I ever got back into cue-repair (I did it several years ending 15 years ago), I'd not offer any 1 piece tips other than water buffalo.
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I think I'll try all three..the ThePro especially look nice and dark on the photos at least...
 
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Well, I read LePros and Elkmasters are no good anymore...
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The Lepros, at least, were not good since at least AZB started in 2003 or so. You can go back to the old posts from then if you can find them, and in the cuemaker section everyone was complaining and asking "how to find the "good" ones in a box". Solutions were to bounce them, sand them and look at the pattern, stick them in a glass of water and only take the sinkers, voodoo, you name it. Point being, they were always bad as far as I know.

Edit, same with Triangles. They'd "explode" like an accordion during installation when the razor blade was shaping the tip.
 
iusedtoberich said:
The Lepros, at least, were not good since at least AZB started in 2003 or so. You can go back to the old posts from then if you can find them, and in the cuemaker section everyone was complaining and asking "how to find the "good" ones in a box". Solutions were to bounce them, sand them and look at the pattern, stick them in a glass of water and only take the sinkers, voodoo, you name it. Point being, they were always bad as far as I know.

Edit, same with Triangles. They'd "explode" like an accordion during installation when the razor blade was shaping the tip.
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Only one way to find out.. ;)
 
Some where in storage I've got 2 boxes of Le Pro tips that I bought when I played a lot of pool and before my kids came to live with me .
Back then I used nothing but the Le Pro tips and had very few is any problems with them , which is what I base my opinion on .

There's good and bad in everything .
 
Rusty in Montana said:
Some where in storage I've got 2 boxes of Le Pro tips that I bought when I played a lot of pool and before my kids came to live with me .
Back then I used nothing but the Le Pro tips and had very few is any problems with them , which is what I base my opinion on .

There's good and bad in everything .
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Where's that bin located Rusty??😉😂
 
Rusty in Montana said:
Since all 3 of these tip options are all knock offs so to speak that maybe the reason why ?
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Rusty asked why not just get Le Pro instead of the knock-off, ThePro?

Cue Components explained that the Le Pro company (Tweeten) is stuck-up and it hasn't done anything since Grandpa Le Pro invented Le Pro. Le Pro's $1.50 price is too much versus ThePro's $1. If you can tell the difference in play between a Le Pro (one that's good, anyway) and ThePro? Cue Components will eat your returned ThePro with a glass of milk.

From Cue Components:
Tweeten Fibre Company (manufacturers of the LePro Cue Tip) is a very difficult company to work with, sort of stuck up and for no good reason. They believe they have a niche market with a few products. Quite frankly, they have never done anything since "grandpa" invented their company & products.​
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With Tweeten's quest for arrogance, we decided to manufacture a competing product and sell them for a much more realistic price! Introducing, our all new ThePro™ Cue Tips. If you can tell the difference in play (when you get a good LePro), send them back and we'll eat them with a glass of milk!​
 
Mensabum said:
Where's that bin located Rusty??😉😂
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At one of the local storage companies , I was there today to check again to try and find them before the snow flies but sadly I failed they're still lost in there somewhere ha ha .
Paul_#_ said:
Rusty asked why not just get Le Pro instead of the knock-off, ThePro?

Cue Components explained that the Le Pro company (Tweeten) is stuck-up and it hasn't done anything since Grandpa Le Pro invented Le Pro. Le Pro's $1.50 price is too much versus ThePro's $1. If you can tell the difference in play between a Le Pro (one that's good, anyway) and ThePro? Cue Components will eat your returned ThePro with a glass of milk.

From Cue Components:
Tweeten Fibre Company (manufacturers of the LePro Cue Tip) is a very difficult company to work with, sort of stuck up and for no good reason. They believe they have a niche market with a few products. Quite frankly, they have never done anything since "grandpa" invented their company & products.​
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With Tweeten's quest for arrogance, we decided to manufacture a competing product and sell them for a much more realistic price! Introducing, our all new ThePro™ Cue Tips. If you can tell the difference in play (when you get a good LePro), send them back and we'll eat them with a glass of milk!​
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Well Paul_#_ , I'm a grandpa as well and so I remember using Le Pro tips back in the proverbial day as did George Frank the owner of Corner Pocket's of America and Frank McGowan so I figured if they're good enough for those two they are good enough for me .

I've got a Le Pro tip on my break cue and I can honestly say I don't have a problem with it , it hits a ball very well , and puts the english on the cue ball I expect from it .
Normally I make balls on the break or rattle the pocket rather hard and even a few 8 balls on the break from time to time .
 
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