New G11 Jump / break tips FS
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berlowmj said:
That would be phenolic...Craig Fales said:
The Viking 9ball tour banned the use of G10 or G11 tips on break cues last year at the Southern Classic stop in Duluth GA because during the 8 day tournament 24 sets of brand new Aramith Super Pro balls had damage to the cueballs from these tips. It was very clear to the naked eye that the G10-11 tips were cracking the surface of the cueballs in every set, I have a G11 on a Sledgehammer and it does not break as good as a canvas phenolic one or two piece tip or tip and ferrule. It might jump a little better but it's not worth the damage to my cueballs to use for breaking, just jumping with them will prolly be okay with less force needed and lighter weight with jump handle.
Leonard
Leonard
Dave38 said:I have worked in vending with pooltables and such equipment in some very bad bars, for around 18yrs and I have seen a small amount of pool balls/cue balls chip under extreme abuse. But I have also seen cueballs thrown out of a vehicle at 65mph, hit a concrete wall and when inspected, only had a scuff in it. To think that someone can hit a cue ball with a tip only 7-8 ft away, and can dent or leave shards, using a manufactured tip material attached to a wooden dowel approx. 1/2" dia. either his name is Popeye or the Hulk and their using technology beyond our planet, or someone is full of s#$@, or someone is using very cheap, imported balls that would chip by just by dropping them on a wood floor. If it's that bad for the equipment, doesn't common sense say that the weakest part would break or damage first?? like the shaft? It's only wood, therefore the wood should break first, before a phenolic ball should have a dent. As for shards of glass, your tip would need to break apart for any 'shard' big enough to be noticed, to be left on the table.
The pros break at an average of around 20-25 mile per hour according to stats I read in a pool mag about 5 yrs ago, therefore this would be a problem way before these new style tips. I think we need Myth Busters to investigate these claims.
Dave
I have tried breaking with G10 tip before.
I make the tip very rough by using very coarse sandpaper so that it can take chalk better.
After I broke, I checked the Aramith Pro-Cup cue ball for the point of contact, it can easily be found as there are scratches with chalk stain on the cue ball. (I have checked before breaking, these scratches are not there before breaking.)
No offense, if you dont believe, you can simply try it out yourself.
Just my 0.02 cent worth of comment.
Yeo
In the name of science ...
I have been following the discussion and decided to do some research on this. The results is shown here and make you're own judgement of it and then we could discuss the pictures afterwards.
http://www.kendocues.com/Websted/Pictures/Pictures.html
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I have been following the discussion and decided to do some research on this. The results is shown here and make you're own judgement of it and then we could discuss the pictures afterwards.
http://www.kendocues.com/Websted/Pictures/Pictures.html
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