How long would it be ok to leave cue in car in hot humid weather?

bobbydee said:
A lot of times I have appointments before getting to league night and was wondering if a cue could warp in that amount of time or not. I feel like I'm safe because when they ship they're in hot humid delivery trucks all day. Just curious. Thanks as always!
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I might be an alarmist but I would say zero time. You can get away with it but you never know which straw is going to break the camels back.
 
The Old Jaybird said:
about 25 years ago, a league teammate left his Meucci in his car during the day in Atlanta summer heat before league night and it popped all the inlays in the butt. Still playable but you could feel the damage running you hand over the cue. He was sick about it, had the cue about 4 months and never thought this would cause damage. Your mileage may vary.
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25 years ago, that happened to all moochie cues. I had a friend who never let hers get cold or hot and all the inlays popped in a few months.
 
A version of Murphy's law comes into play. The more you value a cue the more likely it is to warp. Doesn't matter if it is a cheap or high dollar cue although the best cues are a little more likely to not warp. Twenty growth rings to the inch minimum in a shaft and running almost straight top to bottom was the gold standard. It was tough to meet!

A major supplier charged a high price for premium blanks. He told me just buy the cheaper blanks and cull for myself, he didn't cull before counting his bulk sale blanks. I bought a gross at a time and got about thirty percent usable, twenty percent might go in players, if I was lucky ten percent might be fit for premium cues. I still aged all shaft wood at least two years in my own shop and turned a shaft eight times or more.

If I really valued a cue it stayed by my side from the time it left the house until it was put back, stored vertical. My playing shaft for years warped very slightly every summer, straightened every winter.

If you value a cue treat it like your first born child.

Hu
 
garczar said:
I've had maybe two shafts warp in 40yrs and each time it was poor wood and not the conditions. If its in a good case for a couple hrs nothing will happen.
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I would never, ever, leave my cue for 2hours in 100deg temps.

I suppose if I had a $100 cue it wouldn't matter much.
I don't own anything like that.

I take care of my cues, like I take care of my dog.
 
Just don't go from that hot and humid, straight into an ice cold and air-conditioned igloo. Less time the better, but it's unavoidable at times.

pt109 said:
Go to a thrift store…..buy comforters and wool blankets.…..wrap the case…hours in extreme heat or cold….cue will be fine.
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Second this, wrap it up and avoid direct sunlight through the glass.
 
ShootingArts said:
A version of Murphy's law comes into play. The more you value a cue the more likely it is to warp.
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Absolutely agree. Accepting it's going to get some wear from playing and being with you is a good thing to do.
Reminds me of that first scratch on a skateboard when you get a freshie, once you stop giving a shit, it lasts forever and you can't justify getting rid of it much for much longer than you wanted to keep it (especially when you have the next one waiting).
 
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Like a few others that already chimed in I have habitually left my main playing cue in my car every day 24/7/365 with absolutely no issues. I live in southern Wisconsin so the temperature ranges from about 20 below zero on a January night to about 97 degrees today (temp in the car; well over 100). However, I have never regularly carried a high dollar, custom cue either, although I have owned a few to flip. What I have carried longest is a Meucci, but I have also kept an older Viking, a McDermott D-23, a 1990s Pechauer and a cheap Dale Perry in the car for multiple years as well.

I'm just throwing this out there for informational purposes, not making a specific recommendation. Just do whatever you are comfortable with.
 
i keep a cue in my car year round that it's been over 50 years there in cars from minus 40 degrees to say 120 plus inside.

straight as an arrow. inside a soft ten dollar zippered case with the front ripped open.
 
I'm actually surprised you all don't leave a cue in the car year round. The reason I do is I never know when I will want to go play pool, and don't want to "plan" for it. The cue I had for years in the car was not fancy. It was a dinged to hell Predator butt, with a perfect condition 314 shaft on it.

Now that I switched to CF, I have a 30" Revo shaft paired with a cheap Schemlke plain jane butt I had made at 30".

I keep my nice cues at home on the home table, and will bring them out sometimes if I'm going to a serious tournament. But a cheap cue is in the car forever.
 
One thing, I like walking into a place with bare hands. A BRAD tool and a little piece of sandpaper in my pocket. Grab something off the wall and rock and roll. Somehow I feel a lot lighter and freer than when I drag a case in with three cues and junk I haven't used in years in the pockets.

I had a one piece cue laying flat in the back of a station wagon when I blew my back on the job. Cheap cue, I figured if it warped I would buy another. Two or three months later I unrolled the blanket it was in and that Dufferin cue looked like an Irish shillelagh! To make matters worse they had quit making it. I had played in and won more tournaments with that cue than any other that I had owned.

Hu
 
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