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Dave Nelson

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My home table is an 8 ft. Brunswick VIP. Outside of my home I play mostly on 9 ft. tables. I have often wondered what it would be like to play on an 8 ft. table scaled to the 9 ft. configuration. Snooker balls would be very close but then the rail height would not be right and that might give rise to some very strange rebounds. I am very seriously considering buying a set of snooker balls. Has anyone here tried this?

Dave Nelson
 
you'd then have to narrow the pockets accordingly. your time would be better spent getting a 9' table. they are often on craigslist.
 
Unless you narrowed the pockets, moving to a 9 foot table with pool balls after practicing with snooker balls the pockets would feel much tighter even if they were only 4.75 inches. If you want to do anything, get your pockets shimmed really tight to say 4 inches, that way you may be playing on a bigger table but the pockets should seem like buckets.
 
Dave Nelson said:
My home table is an 8 ft. Brunswick VIP. Outside of my home I play mostly on 9 ft. tables. I have often wondered what it would be like to play on an 8 ft. table scaled to the 9 ft. configuration. Snooker balls would be very close but then the rail height would not be right and that might give rise to some very strange rebounds. I am very seriously considering buying a set of snooker balls. Has anyone here tried this?

Dave Nelson
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If you have room for the 9ft. , get one. Ths Snooker ball idea is a loser.
 
Dave Nelson said:
My home table is an 8 ft. Brunswick VIP. Outside of my home I play mostly on 9 ft. tables. I have often wondered what it would be like to play on an 8 ft. table scaled to the 9 ft. configuration. Snooker balls would be very close but then the rail height would not be right and that might give rise to some very strange rebounds. I am very seriously considering buying a set of snooker balls. Has anyone here tried this?

Dave Nelson
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Dave: I have the pro 8 vip in my basement. It's a little bigger than an 8 footer but a little smaller than a 9 footer. I've had some ok runs there but lately, it doesn't feel right. I am much more comfortable playing on a nine footer. Lately I have just been practicing shots, and strokes and cue ball movement at home and not trying to run any racks.

I may have to make a change.
 
Dave, you don't have to go through all that. Just use a shorter stroke and stand a little farther from the table. :scratchhead:
 
Well, I didn't really think it was a very good idea, I just thought it might be fun and a set of snooker balls isn't that expensive. My table is also the VIP oversize and the pockets are shimmed but not severly. I'm going to have them shimmed a little tighter on the next recovering which will be soon. I would get a nine footer right now if I had the room.

When you talk of pocket size, where do you take the measurement, between the points or at the throat?

Dave Nelson
 
Dave, kidding aside, I think the size and weight difference in the snooker balls would actually be counter productive.

I'm not one of those players that's in favor of shimming pockets for 14.1 unless they of course are abnormally canyon size.

Room for 9' tables in homes is a problem. I installed steel plate braces so I could eliminate lolly columns. If columns are your problem, you may have some options available.
 
3andstop said:
Dave, kidding aside, I think the size and weight difference in the snooker balls would actually be counter productive.

I'm not one of those players that's in favor of shimming pockets for 14.1 unless they of course are abnormally canyon size.

Room for 9' tables in homes is a problem. I installed steel plate braces so I could eliminate lolly columns. If columns are your problem, you may have some options available.
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I would have to remove a chimney, move the furnace and water heater and reinforce the beam so that I could remove or move a post. I'm thinking that it would run to 30 thousand or so, though I have never got a professional opinion.

Dave Nelson
 
Dave Nelson said:
I would have to remove a chimney, move the furnace and water heater and reinforce the beam so that I could remove or move a post. I'm thinking that it would run to 30 thousand or so, though I have never got a professional opinion.

Dave Nelson
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Wow, yeah that sure doesn't sound possible. Time to build an addition.

I have an extra (smile) 9' table I wanted to give my son-in-law to put in his new house but he's in the same boat as you with the chimney.

He does have a 20x25 family room upstairs, but my daughter is playing hard ball saying NO POOL TABLE in this room, it's the playroom for the baby.
 
I think I could build a new room at ground level and I do have the room. Maybe I'll get an estimate on that. What we should do is build a new one story house. My wife shouldn't be going up and down those stairs but she wont move.

Dave Nelson
 
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