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ratcues

ratcues

Theewen Custom Cues
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I was working on replacing the butt cap on an old Palmer, pictured here. I had to rebore and tap the hole for the weight pin because it was doweled to hold the bumper. As I bored, there was a very distinct and familiar smell. The guy stuck a pencil in there and broke it off so he could hold the bumper on with a wood screw.
 
Take a look at this pic. The customer had fishing weight chunks in the Limbsaver itself and then attached the bumper with a wood screw into another egg weight. I love the ingenuity of pool players!

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Its not my week.....

I needed to replace this SS collar for a customer. I took it off and here's what I found. The tenon was turned at .525" and the collar threads were filled with bondo...

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...but wait....it gets better....
 
Am I the only one?

...so I replaced the collar and needed to remove the bumper so I could hold the butt between centers and found this. Two drilled holes filled with lead BBs!

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You do get to see all the good ones Ryan. It seems so hacky to do a job like those when its so easy to do the job properly in the first place. I used to use lead shot in my radio controlled airplanes to counter balance a nose heavy plane. Thats acceptable, cues aren't.
 
twice i had customers hand me cues with weight screws super glued half way in and about 2" hanging out.a little information can be dangerous
 
Sometimes we like to play pool & dance to Samba music at the same time. Cha-cha-cha!
 
ratcues said:
I was working on replacing the butt cap on an old Palmer, pictured here. I had to rebore and tap the hole for the weight pin because it was doweled to hold the bumper. As I bored, there was a very distinct and familiar smell. The guy stuck a pencil in there and broke it off so he could hold the bumper on with a wood screw.
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That is certainly some crazy shit Ryan, the craziest thing I have found to date was a screwed up wrap. Some one tried to replace a leather wrap with a linen wrap, but they didn't fill the wrap grove area with epoxy to change the depth for the new linen wrap. In place of epoxy they just double wrapped the cue, one wrap on top of another, I wish I would have taken photo's of that mess.

Thanks for sharing Mason.
 
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