How Do You Get Chalk and Break Cloths Out of a Diamond?

Fast Lenny

Fast Lenny

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Well the Diamond at Kolby's is in use from open to close and people sometimes put the break cloth in the corner pocket after they break and they will slide down in there or sometimes chalks fall into the table. How do you get them out so it does not jam up the table?
 
Neil said:
I think it's a design flaw on Diamonds part that they need to address. The 7' that league players play on are famous for that problem. They can be removed by someone with very small hands, but there needs to be easier access to it. The barboxes can be accessed underneath if you can fit.
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This Diamond is a Pro-Am 9 footer, we have a waitress with small hands but she cannot get to the stuff that is in the table. This table is built like Fort Knox! :grin-square:
 
OMG Lenny f*ing hilarious. The chalks will come out in the ball return after about 30-50 games of play. The balls will simply knock em down a few inches at a time until they come out. On the cloth this is what I suggest get a long wire like a stretched out coat hanger and a flashlight By looking up the ball return you should see it with the light and be able to pull it down with the stretched out hanger.

This is why I never put the cloth in the pocket because I knew this would happen, if you notice I always put it on the rail.
 
center pocket said:
OMG Lenny f*ing hilarious. The chalks will come out in the ball return after about 30-50 games of play. The balls will simply knock em down a few inches at a time until they come out. On the cloth this is what I suggest get a long wire like a stretched out coat hanger and a flashlight By looking up the ball return you should see it with the light and be able to pull it down with the stretched out hanger.

This is why I never put the cloth in the pocket because I knew this would happen, if you notice I always put it on the rail.
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I have yet to see the chalks come down into the ball return yet, they seem to just jam up the table from time to time. It is not a table flaw IMO but sometimes chalks do fall into the holes and the break cloth IMO just sucks to use anyway. :smile:
 
there's four doors on the bottom of your table, the bolt is 7/16", you should be able to reach into the ball return gulleys. or take a vaccuum with a flexible attachment and feed that down the hole. or take out the ball rack, shine a flashlight in there and you should be able to see everything that gets past the gullies. To clean the inside I take dry floor mop with scoping extension and push or pull everthing to center center and it will fall through to the floor.
 
sdbilliards said:
there's four doors on the bottom of your table, the bolt is 7/16", you should be able to reach into the ball return gulleys. or take a vaccuum with a flexible attachment and feed that down the hole. or take out the ball rack, shine a flashlight in there and you should be able to see everything that gets past the gullies. To clean the inside I take dry floor mop with scoping extension and push or pull everthing to center center and it will fall through to the floor.
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Thank you! :smile:
 
Neil said:
I think it's a design flaw on Diamonds part that they need to address. The 7' that league players play on are famous for that problem. They can be removed by someone with very small hands, but there needs to be easier access to it. The barboxes can be accessed underneath if you can fit.
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That is funny, but I too lost chalk to a Diamond when Alexander was open....
 
That is the exact reason for using a chalk holder that stays on your body or in your pocket.....;););) Just kidding.....

As far as the break cloth, I don't have a clue......
 
Neil said:
I think it's a design flaw on Diamonds part that they need to address.
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There's no design problem with a Diamond table when it comes to losing the chalk in one of the tracks. The tracks are designed for BALLS that are round to roll down them, and Donny is right, the chalk will work it's way through the table and come out with the rest of the balls. If you want to see where your break cloth is at, look through were you place the rack. From there, you can see up the entire middle of the table;) Tie a string around that break cloth, then let it hang over the edge of the rail, that way if someone drops it into a pocket, the string will still be hanging out to grab;)

Glen
 
realkingcobra said:
There's no design problem with a Diamond table when it comes to losing the chalk in one of the tracks. The tracks are designed for BALLS that are round to roll down them, and Donny is right, the chalk will work it's way through the table and come out with the rest of the balls. If you want to see where your break cloth is at, look through were you place the rack. From there, you can see up the entire middle of the table;) Tie a string around that break cloth, then let it hang over the edge of the rail, that way if someone drops it into a pocket, the string will still be hanging out to grab;)

Glen
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Kinda like a Tampon........but different :killingme:
 
exactly

junkbond said:
Do you know anyone who has a ferrett?
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The Filopinos used trained ferrets called, "sanay na maghalughog," for these occasions. I know for a fact that Efren's manager carries one in a little cage every where they go. :yes:
 
Lenny, Maybe a good auto parts shop can help you. In my tool rollaway, I keep a couple of tools designed for retrieving small parts like screws, nuts, etc. that fall where fingers won't go. Both use a length of coiled flexible steel. One has a magnet, the other I simply call a "grabber". Inside the outer sheath is another piece of steel...it opens into four "claws" when you push a plunger atop the tool. Release the plunger, these teeth close.
Great for picking up even bits you cannot see.

Betcha one of those would retrieve the dropped break cloth. Think I paid someting like $6.98 for both tools in a NAPA store bargain bin thing...

Any mechanics play at Kolbys???
 
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