Tip moisture absortion

[TomHay]

Has anyone done studies on how moisture effects the play of your tip and more so over a period of time?

I am very sorry. I asked the question as a Player who is trying to play again after a 12 year lay off. In Florida we live in high humidity. It has been a very hot summer and the room owners are not cranking the AC down which I get as they need to save a bit to stay open.

I can't post as two people, just a thing I was wondering.

 

[The Renfro]

This has been asked several times and until recently I would have thought that moisture wasn't very important... I purchased a larger press than I had been using and it relegated me to the garage which is not airconditioned but is attached to the house so it doesn't get too miserable but if it's humid out you know it while working....

I had about 20 tips that I had left over after packing the days orders and didn't bother to put them into the pill packages we use now and just left them sitting on the workstation where I do the final QC checks....

One of the things that gets checked and all 20 of these tips were between 71 and 72 on the durometer... 2 days later I go down and I had the discard pile and the good extras laying there but I had carried a box down and when I sat it down I jostled a few of the discards and they got pushed into the good extras.....

It was only 5-6 tips and some were apparent due to being undersized or over sized but a few had been low on durometer so I set out to cull them back out.... Pretty easy thing normally when I was working in the mancave with AC things like this happen... I found the cpl that had tested low... 60ish vs 70-72 but every single one of the tips that had checked out had dropped to 66-68 just from sitting in the humid basement....

I know they don't relax because I test them constantly thru life cycles and so the only variable that changed was the humidity.... I intentionally left some tips down there for a few days just to make sure I was not losing it and low and behold they sucked in enough moisture that they tested softer than marked....

I would definitely keep your tips in a tuperware container or something else air tight for storage... I think most people that don't leave cues in the car and who play in buildings with A/C will never have this issue.... I would never have bet one way or another until seeing it and verifying it.....

Chris

 

[Igetthecash]

testing would seem pointless to me , but then again what would i know I only play with sniper tips and they are great

 

[TomInFaribo]

When Kamui first came out with their black tips one of the selling points on their web site was the black resisted moisture better than the browns. The reason I switched to the blacks as MN can become quite humid.
I could not find that claim the last time I looked.

 

[The Renfro]

When Kamui first came out with their black tips one of the selling points on their web site was the black resisted moisture better than the browns. The reason I switched to the blacks as MN can become quite humid.
I could not find that claim the last time I looked.

I remember their claim as well... Either they decided it was not an important point for marketing or found out that they sucked in the wet stuff just like the others

 

[mortuarymike-nv]

Ok

When Kamui first came out with their black tips one of the selling points on their web site was the black resisted moisture better than the browns. The reason I switched to the blacks as MN can become quite humid.
I could not find that claim the last time I looked.

So what did all you hi tech wild and crazy guys come up with???????

Before you (I eat breath and sleep pool sluts ) answer this question, you might want to run a thread in ask the cue makers section, with the title of the thread being
How many of you guys spit on your the tip to burnish it

No offence but with everyone slobbering all over their tips, this is one study I don't want any part of it, and its a great time too uttahere: run away

 

[Mr. Bond]

Osmosis.
Water is drawn from an area of less 'salts' to an area of greater salts.
(Salt in this case is a generic chemical term)

For example, this is how salt curing is done with meats etc.. The salt draws out the water.
With some products, like leathers, the curing agents remain, and naturally attract moisture.