What a Snag...

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Once again, I find myself in need of your advice...

Two days after having my brunswick 8 footer covered in Simonis 860, A snag was pulled in the cloth during a mis-break! The snag as I call it is roughly akin to what you might have seen a cat do to your knit sweater. It seems to be limited to a couple of threads, slightly pulled and fuzzed such that a tiny loop sticks up from the bed. The damage is slight, and does not seem severe enough to deflect a balls path unless rolling EXTREMELY slow (even then it was hard to detect under close inspection).

Naturally, I can just ignore it and chock it up to wear-and-tear, but I thought someone from this community might have a suggestion to "repair" or at least minimize the appearance of this condition. It is in the center of the line formed between the first diamonds on the head "breaking" end of the table. I thought about putting a "spot" on the snag and ignoring it, but I'm not sure I would like the looks of that anymore than the snag itself (I do not have a spot on the table to set the rack for appearances sake).

Anybody have any ideas?
 
Walrus said:
Once again, I find myself in need of your advice...

Two days after having my brunswick 8 footer covered in Simonis 860, A snag was pulled in the cloth during a mis-break! The snag as I call it is roughly akin to what you might have seen a cat do to your knit sweater. It seems to be limited to a couple of threads, slightly pulled and fuzzed such that a tiny loop sticks up from the bed. The damage is slight, and does not seem severe enough to deflect a balls path unless rolling EXTREMELY slow (even then it was hard to detect under close inspection).

Naturally, I can just ignore it and chock it up to wear-and-tear, but I thought someone from this community might have a suggestion to "repair" or at least minimize the appearance of this condition. It is in the center of the line formed between the first diamonds on the head "breaking" end of the table. I thought about putting a "spot" on the snag and ignoring it, but I'm not sure I would like the looks of that anymore than the snag itself (I do not have a spot on the table to set the rack for appearances sake).

Anybody have any ideas?
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Use Bondo, not that damn bees wax, just kidding. I'd have to see it to know what to do. Here are some quickie fixes, not pretty, not perfect, try some glue, maybe that will fill the hole and lay it down. Take the stickem circle they put where the one ball racks on and stick that over the tear, or cut the circle down half size. Go by any table dealer, they will probably give you one, most pool halls have some laying around. :D
 
Wow... 250+ views and only 2 legitimate replies...

Seriously, thanks to all who viewed my post. For the time being, I am just living with it. After playing several hours this past wekend, I feel confident the snag does not negatively affect my game (or the shooting of my guests) any at all.

It is the wierdest thing... I tried to duplicate the snag, with the same stick, stroking onto a scrap piece stapled to a board. I could not duplicate... not even close, and I was hitting the scrap cloth hard! Oh, well, go figure.

Thanks again for all who viewed... keep up the faith!
 
Walrus said:
Wow... 250+ views and only 2 legitimate replies...

Seriously, thanks to all who viewed my post. For the time being, I am just living with it. After playing several hours this past wekend, I feel confident the snag does not negatively affect my game (or the shooting of my guests) any at all.

It is the wierdest thing... I tried to duplicate the snag, with the same stick, stroking onto a scrap piece stapled to a board. I could not duplicate... not even close, and I was hitting the scrap cloth hard! Oh, well, go figure.

Thanks again for all who viewed... keep up the faith!
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Dont laugh at duct tape, my rule is I have two tools, duck tape and a hammer, If I cant fix it with duct tape, I use the hammer to pull the sucker off whatever it is stuck on.
 
Chalk it up to wear and tear. Your cloth is going to get a lot worse if you practice as much as I do!
 
My wife has fixed sweaters that got snagged. Easy to happen when you have four cats and two dogs! I do not know how she does it, but she pulls on the surrounding strings, and eventually works them back where they were. Try asking a woman!
 
If you have a couple threads sticking up that are bothering you, I'd suggest taking a beard or lint trimmer and ever so lightly only trimming off the threads that are exposed beyond the playing surface. Dont dig into the felt, only trim what is sticking up. Hit the spot with some water and a vacuum cleaner first to get the problem threads to stand up.

Be careful not to remove anything other than what is pulled up or you could create a worse problem.

after that take a lighter and burn the ends of the....kidding.

To seal it after trimming to prevent further un-ravvelling, soak a Q-tip in super glue and very gently dab the spot, only as much as needed to apply a slight amount of glue to seal the thread ends.
 
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