Pocket Question

Cheez Dawg

Cheez Dawg

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When a table is re-covered, and the new rubber installed all around, what would cause balls that should drop, to rattle in the corner pockets?
It seems one horn sends the ball to the other horn rather than into the pocket. I'm talking about balls hit down the rail, medium speed, that do dot touch the rail, yet rattling out.
A lot of people are noticing this.
Every table this guy has put new rubber on does this.
What is the fix for the next re-rail and cloth so I know it is being done right?
 
Cheez Dawg said:
When a table is re-covered, and the new rubber installed all around, what would cause balls that should drop, to rattle in the corner pockets?
It seems one horn sends the ball to the other horn rather than into the pocket. I'm talking about balls hit down the rail, medium speed, that do dot touch the rail, yet rattling out.
A lot of people are noticing this.
Every table this guy has put new rubber on does this.
What is the fix for the next re-rail and cloth so I know it is being done right?
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can you post a picture of the pockets?
 
If the guy opened up the angles of the pockets, made the points of the pocket far apart and the throat narrow...think of a funnel, it will cause the balls coming down the rail to rattle more. To go the other way, if you were to make the angles so they were parallel to eathother, it would cause all the balls to drop in.

If the guy doing the rubber didn't use the correct tools, and just eyeballed the cuts on the rubber, it is very easy for the angles of the pockets to change.
 
He is eye-balling the angles, and on some pockets you can see the angles are not even.
I'll snap a couple of pictures next time I'm up there.
The angles are fairly wide.
 
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