How do you know when you have a bad Le pro--load the cue ball up with english and try to reach out and touch that object ball--when your through there's a big chunk of tip missing from the whole tip that once was on your cue--this is the very same thing that happened to the Champion tips in the early 80's--consistinecy went south...super soft k tips work fine for this old timer now--I would like to try the Mild Duds though--just to check em out--heard that they are the real deal
Le Pro vs. Kamori tips
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Milk Duds are awesome, as long as they get the hardness from tip to tip consistent.
An installer will know when he has a bad Lepro, unfortunately he may not know it until he starts to trim the tip. I have tried the layered tips, and have gone back to Lepro.
An installer will know when he has a bad Lepro, unfortunately he may not know it until he starts to trim the tip. I have tried the layered tips, and have gone back to Lepro.
I personally prefer Kamui over all the other tips.
Been using Kamui Black Soft for a while and it's just great.
Nothing but good things to say about it.
Won't mushroom, you can break with that thing and it stays consistent.
Edit: oops sorry........I read it as Kamui. Don't know anything about the Karomi tips. Never used one.
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Buy a durometer... The soft is soft for 6 weeks... likely less if you are breaking with it..... It happens gradually so if you are playing with it as it changes you likely don't really notice.....
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Do you still have them?Update. Just received a new box of 14mm LePro's from my supplier. Out of 50 tips, 5 were "prime". The glue side was shiny with almost no grain showing. I reserve these for my best customers and charge a small premium. Of the rest, 9 were good. Small amount of grain showing but will probably shape up nicely. From experience, probably 2 or 3 of the "good" will turn out to be not so good and will have to be cut off and replaced.
This leaves a yield of usable tips of about 13-14 out of 50. Pretty much average in my experience.
I have a zip-loc bag of poor quality LePro's. Don't know why I keep them. It's too much of a risk to install and hope for the best since I may end up installing and removing several before I find one that's acceptable. I keep thinking I'll install on a bunch of house cues some day.
ELEVEN yr old thread. Nice.
If I remember correctly, Le Pro's weren't really 'solid leather!'
They were ground up leather dust mixed with glue!
In the early 90's I was one of the first in US to get them.
$100.00 (50) Kamori n a metal tin.
They were ground up leather dust mixed with glue!
In the early 90's I was one of the first in US to get them.
$100.00 (50) Kamori n a metal tin.
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I've said it all my life... Hard tip.
They fit perfectly in my grandson's Nerf gun. Shoot out of there at a pretty good clip. Maybe you can have lepro wars instead of paintball w the grandkids!!Update. Just received a new box of 14mm LePro's from my supplier. Out of 50 tips, 5 were "prime". The glue side was shiny with almost no grain showing. I reserve these for my best customers and charge a small premium. Of the rest, 9 were good. Small amount of grain showing but will probably shape up nicely. From experience, probably 2 or 3 of the "good" will turn out to be not so good and will have to be cut off and replaced.
This leaves a yield of usable tips of about 13-14 out of 50. Pretty much average in my experience.
I have a zip-loc bag of poor quality LePro's. Don't know why I keep them. It's too much of a risk to install and hope for the best since I may end up installing and removing several before I find one that's acceptable. I keep thinking I'll install on a bunch of house cues some day.
Just a thot.
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No shame in my game
Some of us run late's all.
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I got here as soon as I could.
He gave them to me. I'll sell them to you for $75 for the box.