milk duds!

[Anderson79]

milk duds

What is the specs on pressing them as far as how much pressure to put on them? Also, do you press them flat or press the shooting side in something that's the diameter you want?

Thanks

 

[Pre-Flag Master]

I have pooldawg8 duds on my cues. To me they get english like a soft, feel like a medium and hold their shape like a hard.
Its like the best of all worlds IMHO.

Absolutely, agreed!

 

[Pre-Flag Master]

...The elk masters, lepro, and triangle tips come preshaped, when they are pressed on a flat surface, the dome center gets pressed first, then the sides. Using that method, the center has a greater density than the sides.
Using this dome shape, you are retaining the dime shape and density of the original elkmaster/lepro/triangle tip.

Actually Elk Masters have their dome shape created by the way they are pressed at the factory. So they already start off with an uneven density distribution. Therefore I would think it would be better to press milk duds flat.

I also think flat tips are better for installation purposes. It becomes so much easier for a tip installer to cut the dome in a symmetrical way. Usually what happens is that domed tips are either not centered well when they are glued on or not symmetrical in the first place, and the installer ends up giving you a lopsided crown. Installing a flat tip would mean more cutting for the installer, but at least your installation would come out closer to perfect. Now I know there are many *skilled* cue guys out there, so please no one take offense to this. However, there are many *unskilled* guys out there working on peoples cues too.

As for Triangles the dome is shaped by cutting at the factory, so that's a different animal.

As for LePro's, I don't know how the dome is created.

I wish tip makers would just make their tips flat in the first place, problem solved.

Fatz

 

[Vahmurka]

I wish tip makers would just make their tips flat in the first place

That's the way MadMan makes all his tips.

 

[ENGLISH!]

Just a bit of food for thought.

When you take a flat tip & shape it you are losing room for compression at the edges vs the center. So, given a certain force of hit, contact on the edge could feel & actually play a bit harder than at the center.

That is one reason that I like my tip nearly flat with just the edges rounded to a less severe edge.

I do not shoot on the center of the tip or the cue ball very often at all.

Just some thoughts.

Regards,