Is This A Crazy Idea?

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tom mcgonagle

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A lot of rooms I play in have holes under the spots and it's almost impossible to give or get a good rack.

What if they made a table that swivels and when these conditions exit, they just swing the table around. It would make things a lot easier and less expensive than changing the cloth.

Is this feasible?

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A lot of rooms are laid out a certain way and they like it that way. It would mean players breaking in the same direction in many cases.

I do appreciate your logic DGHustles.
 
No, Tommy. It's a splendid idea. We could use a guy like you here at Steamer Cue Sports Ltd. A man who can think on his feet. Someone who can run an idea up the old flagpole to see how it waves. A person who can throw a rock down a well and watch the ripples rise. You get the picture.
Drop by the home this coming Thursday, and tell the nurse on duty you'd like to see Mr. Steamer. We have cookies and lemonade on Thursdays, to. :smile:
 
We rack from the other end the first of every month and have no problems. We simply switch the location of the rack. Our room has four Gold Crown IIIs.


Cloth seems to last longer.

I found that if you roll a ball on the foot spot with some pressure it usually takes the dimple out of the cloth and you get a tight rack.

Seems to me that it woud be expensive to make a table that swivels. Difficult to keep it level without lots of machinery. Sure would not want to level a table every month. Our room was designed with the benches at one end that run the length of the room in front of a window that also runs the length of the room and we have had no problems in 40 years.

PS, I like crazy ideas. Some of the best innovations come from them.
 
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I would think the last thing someone would want is for the pool table to swivel away from them when they are getting into shooting posistion then try to nonchalantly as possible pick themselves up off the floor. Im sure you meant it to have a lock, but........................................................
 
Eventually the spot will wear down and no longer do the job it was intended to do - keep the cloth from getting a hole in it. The cheapest and easiest solution is to avoid the problem altogether by changing the spots regularly so a hole doesn't develop in the cloth to begin with.
 
sawtex said:
Magic Rack would be allot simpler.
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The hole is caused when the cue ball strikes the head ball at 25 miles an hour in a downward blow from breaking, repeatedly. A Magic rack would do nothing to stop this effect......

The hole being caused by people smashing the head ball with another ball to get a good rack however, could be alleviated.
 
I think a dimple is inevitable whether you change the spot or not, the head ball gets smashed and drives downward a little bit, creating that wear.

What I noticed is that in pool rooms with no spot, it's less prevalent because people don't keep putting the rack in the same location every time. But that's not really desirable, hard to have a consistent break result when the rack keeps moving.

I think ultimately you just want to replace spots frequently, and use a magic rack as sawtex suggest... you not only get the tight rack, the MBR takes some of the force and scuffing action, instead of the felt.
 
Racking on the other end is the easiest solution. It's like unscrewing the light bulb with your hand.

Spinning the table around works, too. But so does holding the light bulb and having your friend spin the ladder.

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Two comments I have on this post...

First, putting a spot on the cloth doesn't create more divots, the spot adds another layer of material that protects the cloth from divots... you can peel the spot up once a week and replace it which makes the cloth last a ton longer. Cost is about 10 cents a week.

Second, I play in a bar that basically lifts extra tables into play on league night using a hydralic jack that is designed with a wide lift section to pick up tables safely. I can only imagine that using the safe lift and just rotating the tables with this device would be incredibly cost effective versus designing and buying tables that have a swivel device built in.
 
Tramp Steamer said:
No, Tommy. It's a splendid idea. We could use a guy like you here at Steamer Cue Sports Ltd. A man who can think on his feet. Someone who can run an idea up the old flagpole to see how it waves. A person who can throw a rock down a well and watch the ripples rise. You get the picture.
Drop by the home this coming Thursday, and tell the nurse on duty you'd like to see Mr. Steamer. We have cookies and lemonade on Thursdays, to. :smile:
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Dude you made me spit adobo cracker nuts all over the place.
 
I guess it is a crazy idea but I have seen some pretty crazy tables out there.

My table would have a circular base instead of four legs. Of course it would have to be a large circular base. The best way to describe it is a large, cable reel. It would lock in place.

That's all I got. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

The magic rack is a great tool. The only problem is, it's to easy to make balls on the break when you use it. Hence the name, MAGIC! The balls just disappear.
 
sfleinen said:
Well, if you flip the table over, that will *definitely* stop the wear on the foot spot. In fact, it'd stop all play on that table altogether!

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-Sean
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Eh.....,the bottom might play better than the tops of some of the tables I've been on. ;)
 
If you want to think outside the box, what would be a better idea is finding a way to recloth tables more efficiently. Right now, reclothing a table is an art performed by a select-few. If there was a way a table could recloth itself, you could be looking at something that would revolutionize the pool industry. Maybe you would install an entire rod of cloth into the table and it would rotate (like a paper towel roll) when needed or something.
 
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