Side to Side ball movement at slow speeds?

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hotwls13

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I have had my 8' Olhausen for almost 2 months. It is the Sheraton with Accufast Rails and Championship Tour Edition felt. 3 weeks after installation, I had the guys come back out cause it needed re-leveling and I had a lot of movement. They re-leveled and said the "movement" would go away after about a month and that this was typical for "professional felt". It has been over a month since they were out and I still have a lot of slow ball movement. Some of it is just cue ball wobbling at the last few rolls, and some of it is actual trailing right or left. It isn't as though the table is just out of level, it's like it is following the grain of the felt (the way it was stretched).

I have mapped it all out and I have several spots where the cue ball just wiggles before stopping and others where it drifts right or left.

Is this typical and I am just being anal or should it not be this way. It just really bothers me to see movement like this, and it forces me to take harder shots when I need to shoot soft.

Please advise as I am going to be calling my installers soon.
 
Best to take this to the ask the mechanic forum but it would seem to me that the cloth was not stretched evenly and the ball is following the grain. I've seen installers have up to 3 inches of uneven pull on tables and they roll terribly. It doesn't sound like they are that good at thier job if the ball was rolling off much and you've had to have them out to re level.

That of course is just my opinion and in no way meant to offend anyone with more knowledge than me or in the billiard industry....:D
 
Yeah, as far as the re-level, we did just have new carpet put in 2 days before the original install. I will post this over at the mechanics area.
 
hotwls13 said:
Yeah, as far as the re-level, we did just have new carpet put in 2 days before the original install. I will post this over at the mechanics area.
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Personally, I would have cut the carpet out where the table legs were to go. The fiber will get super-compressed and therefore ruined anyway.

The installers also may have been sloppy with cleaning the slate bed before installing the cloth so there may be some grit under the cloth that is causing the eratic ball movement.

Regards,
Jim
 
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