Sardo rack.
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I found it to make a tight rack, but didn't find it to be fast.
Yes, the table was supposed to be tapped/trained before use but I think the mechanism kept the divots/craters in the right places.
Doesn't do anything a new wooden rack for $20 does.
Been using a Diamond polycarbonate rack lately and its the nuts. Easy to get balls snug and there's plenty of room to get your fingers in if racking all 15balls.
It does get a much tighter rack than most situations using a triangle rack. It's mostly the training/tapping/pounding that gets you there, though.
It's a POS.
Historically, it showed everyone what a really tight rack is like. Pool is still coming to terms with that.
I'll take my Delta 13 Elite instead, thank you.
Paul_#_
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RE the $170+ Delta Elite ball rack 13, from its website:
This ball rack is Precision Machined for a Better Break. If the option is chosen during checkout, the Elite rack is measured by a CMM (Coordinate Measuring Machine) which allows Delta-13 to create a "True Triangle", making it a tighter rack. This is the ball rack used by the pros. The Delta-13 Elite is the official rack for trick shot artist Florian Kohler, featured on ESPN, professional tours and several amateur leagues. Made in the U.S.A.
Delta-13 Elite
This pool rack is measured by a cmm machine to create a "True Triangle", making it a tight rack for all pool tables. This nice rack is used by the pros.
Iwishiwasrich
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That sardo rack was like $289.00 when it first came out a couple of decades ago. What a big funky apparatus to have to deal with. I remember watching the tournaments where Carmine Sardo was racking the balls with that thing.
If the table is not trained, the triangle of correct dimensions doesn’t really matter when setting up the rack, the balls will roll back and forth until you find a spot where the tightness of the rack is suitable and tight enough for the current set of rules. If the table is trained in a way Sardo introduced, you don’t even need a triangle, you just roll the balls into divots. The magic of the Sardo was the concept of training the table and the rack gimmick was just a nice icing on the cake which people fell for thinking that was the key product. It was just an expensive gimmick. Even the name ”Sardo M-2000” sounds like a load of expensive bull. 
Didn’t Sardo sponsor some pool events. I’m sure his money was good.
Paul_#_
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probably just the one rack he's getting rid of? because i doubt there's much margin selling those for 89$