Ironing Cloth

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DrCue'sProtege

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I was told once that when your cloth gets some wear to it you can iron it to make it play faster.

Anybody ever heard of this?

r/DCP

Note: I posted this in the Mechanics Forum but wasn't sure it would be seen much so I posted again here.
 
Can’t see ironing being a problem unless wax was used instead of bondo to seam the table. Potential for melting it and have some get into the cloth.
 
Ironing tables is incredibly common with English pool tables, especially in tournament settings. Never heard of it being done on American pool tables, though.
 
Kts a weave, so it HAS TO be smoothed if you run an iron over it...I think?

Definitely don't want to burn it, obviously.

Definitely do want to take pics and share, before and after ones
 
Do it often, no signs of it hurting. Vacuum, wipe down with damp cloth and iron (low-med setting). Table plays real fast for a few weeks until the fuzz slowly returns. Simonis 860 HR.
 
yep, works fine.
safety tip... have your iron be dedicated for such an endeavor. Even though the vacuum and wet wipe gets a lot, the warm heat seems to attract chalk residue and the cloth blue/green colors, had a bit of sweated scramble once, getting the iron clean before mama was to use it on her light-colored/white things, blouses and such.
 
On Simonis? Are you all ok?

Ironing is done on snooker cloth because it has a nap. I was at a nice club in Germany and they had irons at each snooker table.

Ps, one time I used my pool table as an ironing board for a sewing project. My project got flat, but the iron somehow stained the Simonis cloth. It took about a year or more for it to fade away.

I learned my lesson and never put the iron near the pool table again.
 
I've done a few times without any negative results. Wet the cloth with a damp rag, pre heat the iron with it set on the wool setting. Don't let it sit in any one place for more that half second or so. Other than that there shouldn't be any problems.
 
The effect is short term to say the least. Not worth the effort imo. No pool room does it so why get used to something you'll never seen in real world conditions?
 
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