Shelti tables?

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flash5153

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Whats going on with these tables?

Just played all weekend at a State Tournament with 94 shelti tables,,brand new out of the box. First time I ever played on one.
In general they played OK but there were a few issues. First thing,,when ball hits a rail there is not much action,,kills the ball,,at little. Not much of a problem other than effecting the table speed and is just a matter of becoming used to it.
But when banking a ball,,hmmmm?? They all go long and all come off the rail with spin on the ball. (caused by hitting the rail) And if you put english on the ball going in,,,,there is NO telling what your going to get on the way out.
I think the rails are higher than the center of a pool ball and they pinch the ball when it hits it. And it drives it inbetween the rail and table top,,killing the ball and putting spin on a ball that is hit from a angle.

Has anyone else noticed this??? Or am I hallucinating???:confused:
 
just my opinion here,

I played on one a couple of weeks ago for league play. i actually helped recover these a couple weeks prior with somonis cloth. i thought they played pretty well. deffinately not a diamond small table, but i thought it played better than the average bar box. BTW, seem to be put together than a vally also. just seems like a better built table.

from what i was told the guy that designed the original vally table designed these. i could be mistaken.

all in all i think a better buy than a vally.
 
i have a Shelti table and i think it plays at least as good and probably better than any valley I've shot on
 
Out of the 94 tables that were at this arena, I played on several of them ,over the weekend,,about 15-20, and they all were the same.
If you tried to bank a ball,,it would always go a ball or two long ,,,,and that was if it was straight in,using no english and a light stroke. If I increased the stroke speed or used any english the ball would come off the rail at some crazy angle. There was no way to compensate for that, because the result was so radical.
I heard many many people talking about this same thing.

What I'm saying is,,you shoot a ball into the rail at a '45 it does not come out at a '45. I'm not comparing it to a Valley table,,but to any other rail on any other table. A Shelti rail is unpredictable when trying to bank a ball.
If you don't agree ,,,tell me there is nothing different about them!! lol

So long as your aware of this ,,,the tables played OK. Fairly easy to run out,big pockets,,balls die when they hit rail and avoid banks.

It might have something to do with brand new felt and once played on for awhile it would be different. IDK
 
I've played on shelti tables all over michigan. The story I was told is that

when valley moved its factory from bay city michigan to mexico all the

people who worked in bay city lost their jobs and they started shelti pool

tables in the same place. More jobs taken from our country, but thats a

whole other story. I think they play pretty good, but they seem to have

big pockets, if they were a little tighter they would be better. It makes

C-players feel like they are better players. I think the valley tables of the

80's and 90's are valleys best tables. but not as tough as a diamond 7ft.

table.
 
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