Out of round pool balls

mortuarymike-nv

mortuarymike-nv

mortuarymike-nv
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I just got done watching part of a video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLS2vd2dFz0
In this video the cue ball is either not centered or the cue ball is out of round .

If the cue ball is not perfectly round, I would consider that a problem.
And it leads me to think that allot of cue balls are not balanced either.

I haven't ever measured pool balls to see if they are out of round.

What do you guys think .
 
mortuarymike-nv said:
I just got done watching part of a video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLS2vd2dFz0
In this video the cue ball is either not centered or the cue ball is out of round .

If the cue ball is not perfectly round, I would consider that a problem.
And it leads me to think that allot of cue balls are not balanced either.

I haven't ever measured pool balls to see if they are out of round.

What do you guys think .
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There are two separate possible problems. One is that the ball is not a sphere. I have seen object balls with eyes that noticeably bulged out. The second is that the center of mass might not be at the center of the sphere. I have seen both cue balls and object balls like that.

Either kind of problem will result in a ball that doesn't roll straight.
 
I've also seen billiard balls that were cut in half that showed random air pockets, or voids. Obviously, these couldn't have consistent centers of gravity, or centers of motion, however you look at it.

Glad we're back to empirical analysis being OK.

All the best,
WW
 
I watched the video (jumping through it anyway...). Why do you think the ball is defective? From the information observable in the video, how did you come to that conclusion?
 
iusedtoberich said:
I watched the video (jumping through it anyway...). Why do you think the ball is defective? From the information observable in the video, how did you come to that conclusion?
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To me the ball looks like it is either not centered or the ball is out of round.
I do allot of lathe work and its kinda a natural thing to automatic look to see if the part is centered ..

And because of the other day I had a shot that went weird and the object ball went off coarse 3 inches.

Everyone saw the ball swerve off coarse, I thought it was the table and shot several balls down the table to figure out the problem.

I don't know what happened ?
When I saw this video and made me wonder if the pool balls might not be the issues .
 
mortuarymike-nv said:
To me the ball looks like it is either not centered or the ball is out of round.
I do allot of lathe work and its kinda a natural thing to automatic look to see if the part is centered ..

And because of the other day I had a shot that went weird and the object ball went off coarse 3 inches.

Everyone saw the ball swerve off coarse, I thought it was the table and shot several balls down the table to figure out the problem.

I don't know what happened ?
When I saw this video and made me wonder if the pool balls might not be the issues .
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Not to harp on Cyclop balls, but I recently got to see a bunch of their cue balls side by side, and the color differences in the balls makes me wonder about what other possible qc issues there might be. (BTW I know about the 'new' cyclop cue ball, and its supposed to be an improvement).
 

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The Renfro said:
those are not the new cueballs from cyclops so I have to think their value has been reduced.. Those are now being screen printed to be used as souvenirs......
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They are not the new measles looking ball that I referenced in my original post, but they are indeed brand new balls available for sale at a local billiard retailer.
Here is a pic of one compared to some other balls.
 

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