Mystery Sliding Tube Bridge Thing

PaulieB said:
I know a guy at the bar that basically just cuts the end off one of the fingers of a glove and then cuts the entire finger off the glove and puts that around his cue shaft. When I asked him about it he said it was because he liked the feel of a glove but people in a bar setting make too much fun of him for wearing a glove.

If you have an old spare glove around, just try that ... it works for him. Don't know if it would be long enough for you (it is nowhere near the 6 inches mentioned in this thread), but it is for him.
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Love this idea

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I saw them 4-sale on ebay.

"Perfector" Pool Billiard Cue Sleeves

Go to ebay and look for the above items. I use them in bars when the sticks are all gooked up.

RedEyeJedi said:
I'm here watching a pool room in Japan @ http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerspace-live

There's a guy playing doubles with a pink shirt on as of 10:23AM EST, and he's got this little tube on his shaft, near the joint, that he grabs and slides up with his bridge hand as he bridges in front of a ball.

Looks pretty nifty, was wondering if anyone knew of a product like it in the US, apart from the "Slug Bug" which looks much clunkier than the one this guy is using in the stream.

Edit: As of 11:20 they're still playing. It looks like a slip on, but not a cloth-like fabric, because it doesn't seem to bunch up. I've been doing some researching, closest I've heard of is "some sort of" plastic tube Earl Strickland sometimes breaks with. Probably for zero friction or something.

Anybody?
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Scott Lee said:
Pushout...The plastic mesh slipover was invented by a black fellow in Chicago almost 20 years ago. I gave him a lesson, and he had a bunch of them...a few of which he gave to me. He was, at that time, looking for an investor, so he could mass produce them. I never heard any more from him, but I don't think he found what he was looking for. He might have sold the patent to somebody else, which is why you might have bought one at a Viking tour event.

Scott Lee
http://poolknowledge.com
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I talked to this guy (named Tom, I think) about his invention several times and often wonder if he got it off the ground. This was at Chris's more than 10 years ago...

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Pat...I gave Tom a lesson at the pool hall that used to be just up the street from Depaul University (now closed). IIRC, it probably about 10 years ago (it was when The Sopranos was huge...there was a restaurant right next door than had "Soprano parties" every week).

Scott Lee
http://poolknowledge.com

Patrick Johnson said:
I talked to this guy (named Tom, I think) about his invention several times and often wonder if he got it off the ground. This was at Chris's more than 10 years ago...

pj
chgo
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