I need to quiet down a ball return

aagreer

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What is the best way to quiet down a ball return I have an old Irving Kaye 7' any help would be Great.. Thanks
 
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Try missing more shots. That will solve your problem.

On a more serious note I too think the felt would work.

Kevin
 
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found many uses for it working on pool tables with great results...
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Rob.M
 
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Have u had the table apart and looked inside??
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Rob.M
 
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Have you considered replacing the billiard balls with tennis balls? Also results in a tighter pocket.

Just saying...:p
 
What is the best way to quiet down a ball return I have an old Irving Kaye 7' any help would be Great.. Thanks

you need to remove the slate to access the ball return. you can glue any sort of pool table cloth to the plastic channels
which should quiet things down. test it out before reinstalling the slate.
 
you need to remove the slate to access the ball return. you can glue any sort of pool table cloth to the plastic channels
which should quiet things down. test it out before reinstalling the slate.

I've done this a few times at customer request. Works great. :thumbup:
 
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Used cloth is a waste of time in the ball tracks...
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Rob.M
 
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I had an old Irving Kaye barbox a couple of years ago and made a couple of efforts to quiet the ball return in mine. The whole ball return system was very thin aluminum sheet metal channels, that dropped the balls down onto a thin piece of particle board. It was loud as hell and drove my wife nuts whenever I wanted to shoot a few racks. Gluing cloth in the aluminum return channels didn't do much, since the slope of the channels wasn't very steep and when the glue loosened up, balls would get stuck... Only way to get them out was to remove the slate.... Waste of time.. Oddly enough, I ended up using a rubber based roofing material to quiet mine down. Worked awesome. I re-routed the path of the ball return as well. Since it was a barbox, designed for a 2 3/8 cueball, it would take 10 minutes for each ball to come down into the rack area.

What you want to keep in mind is vibration is what causes noise. Knowing this, you don't necessarily have to put something on the ball path of the return to quiet it down, you can put something on the outside of these aluminum channels to dampen the vibration and quiet the return down. The same principles apply to sound deadening your car, particularly for stereo enhancement.. One thing to be mindful of: make sure you don't cover the cut-outs in the return for chalk to drop down through. Those holes in the return channels are there for a reason. This roofing material is just one option.. You can use any number of materials. High density foam or rubber materials will work well, but there are other things that will work as well. You just have to be creative.. Look at the leather inserts that are being sold for the Delta 13 racks. They do a fine job of dampening the racket that those racks make.
Best of luck to you.
 
Great replies everyone, I got an older Brunswick 7 footer, and I am going to wait till I can afford to put new felt on, because I am sure there are years and years of adhesive built up on the bottom edges of the slate, then I will put something in the tracks to reduce some of the noise. Earlier a few posts were addressing the cue balls, my tale used one of those huge cue balls, is there anyway to make a normal cue ball drop out at the break end instead of where all the other balls drop out. Right now,it has a little wire flipper that guides that huge cue ball to it's destination.

Thanks
 
you're entitled to your opinion as well but don't bite it until you try it, especially on a table with a minimum of 4-5 hours of play per day...
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Rob.M

Dude - I'm not knocking your method - just your habit of answering a question as if your way is the only way.

I've used pieces of titan or mali to line ball returns in the past. Even put some on an antique bwick with a wood
channel ball return 2 yrs ago and it's as quiet today as it was when applied. I know this particular table gets
played on for several hours every day. Glued correctly there's no problem.
 
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-the rubber meterial I use will out last cloth and won't EVER need replacing if done properly...
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Take care'
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Rob.M
 
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Yes all metal and real noisy but I am going to try the rubber on them I believe that is the best way for my particular table..
Thanks For all the info I will prob be in touch with you Rob when I get my table recovered...Thanks again guys
 
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