SeniorTom
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Could you send me a link showing what you are talking about? Thank you.
Shafts in case, tips up or down?
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This is the Kamui version, but there are many others out there that perform the same function for way less money. When I install a $26 Kamui Tip , people seem to like the branded protector, but the fifty cent version works the same. Keeps chalk out of your case. It's not about protecting the tip so much as it is keeping the chalked tip from transferring chalk to the inside of your case and ultimately onto the shaft of your cue. I'll bet I go through at least 30 of these a month.
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Our local Legion passed out a bunch of the rubber "thread protectors" to put over your cue tip when not playing as they were tired of cleaning chalk marks off the walls from people leaning their cues against the wall between games.
Something like these. You can get them in different sizes.
Something like these. You can get them in different sizes.
Shafts in case, tips up or down?
I joined the /billiards Reddit not too long ago, and someone recently asked there if the tips should go down or up in a case. There were, to me, a surprising number of "tip down" replies and I was wondering if it's due to the posters there being younger and not very experienced players vs those...
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SeniorTom
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I just ordered a couple of those online today. I was also at Ace Hardware and purchased .5" thread protectors and they fit perfectly over my 12.4mm players cue, and also over my 13 mm break cue. They were .42 ¢ ea. I guess I pay an extra $4 each for the word kamui printed on the 'official' one's ?
I'd like to know why the 8 of you that put the tips up do it that way, and why your mommas raised you the wrong way you uncultured animals 
Obviously my momma didn't raise me right. If she did, I wouldn't be talking about this!I'd like to know why the 8 of you that put the tips up do it that way, and why your mommas raised you the wrong way you uncultured animals
My first case was a Fellini or Fellini style case. If you didn't pay attention (and btw that was more difficult in the early 70's) your cue butt and shaft could easily fall out and go BANG on the floor. Of course it would always be the pin and joint collar taking the hit
You see if the butt and rubber bumper as well as the tip are pointing toward the floor they're what hits first. No damage done. Can't imagine a tip needing to be replaced after hitting the floor from 3feet.
I say tips up. Only because I think "believe" if you don't rub the chalk off the tip before putting it in the case, as the cue shaft is inserted into the case, the cue tip will hit the side walls, inside the case.
I think this is important if you have wood shaft as I believe this causes the tip to make contact all over "tube", as it is inserted.
Have carbon fiber? Who cares... Chalk won't get " into" the shaft.
I think this is important if you have wood shaft as I believe this causes the tip to make contact all over "tube", as it is inserted.
Have carbon fiber? Who cares... Chalk won't get " into" the shaft.
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I think my answer still holds true. All depends on the case. I think if I had a choice, the tips would go up. But I often don’t have a choice. Most of my cases, the logical way would be tip down. I just went out yesterday, grabbed my beater case with a beater stick, and I noticed I had put tip up. And when I put it away after I was done, smashing balls into the rails, I put it back in with the tip up. Didn’t really think about it. It all depends on the case. The vast majority of my other cases, tip is down.I'd like to know why the 8 of you that put the tips up do it that way, and why your mommas raised you the wrong way you uncultured animals
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