Why do some pool halls enforce the use of break pads?

Thresh said:
... I believe @dr_dave used a thermal camera to demonstrate the "burn" marks. If my memory still works... It might not :)
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You might be thinking of this video which can be found on Dr. Dave's site.


This was recorded by Robert Leitner with Andreas Efler doing the shooting. The infrared clips don't necessarily show burn marks but they do show that for fairly normal shots the cloth is heated. For some of the clips the ball is bouncing and then you get a series of hot spots on the cloth rather than a warm streak.
 
Electric Boogaloo said:
Now you got me wanting a break cloth before I burn up my table. I have some scrap fabric, what is a good size to make it?
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Electric Boogaloo said:
8 foot table and mostly 8 ball.
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The break cloths I've seen are about 3-inch squares. I think the game is irrelevant. Well.... probably not needed at one pocket and 14.1.

I used to play in a room that banned hard breaks on the front tables. I think they had break cloths for the other tables. The owner was very old school.
 
I use the ones that come with the outsville template rack packs. I've worn holes through multiple of the pads on my current cloth, but the cloth on the bed is still fine.
 
Bob Jewett said:
I used to play in a room that banned hard breaks on the front tables. I think they had break cloths for the other tables. The owner was very old school.
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Did they only let you play one pocket and 14.1 up front, or was it some kind of an honor system where they trusted you to take a little bit off your rotation break?

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I just simply use a piece of paper towel about 1 1/4"x3". I keep a small stack of them and change out every two weeks or so when they get wrinkled or dirty.
No break burn marks in almost 4 years use.
 

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My set of Alien pads make excellent break pads as well as a template rack for 3 ball practice challenges. Minimal effect on rolling balls and very inexpensive. 😉
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I like to leave the break pad on the table during gameplay.

The resulting thrills and anguish are most entertaining.

I posted about it before, but one time I shot a ball that was on the near end of the pad and it didn't touch the table on its way to the pocket.

The more entertaining part was when the cue ball jumps straight up in the air, landed on the rail and left the table

Good times
 
I started sending cue ball pads at the beginning of my BreakRAK sales. I had practiced my practice shot (research) for years, from the same area. I did not have any damage to the cloth, but that might have been, because I moved around. I did have jillions of "pecker tracks" leading to the SPOT, but no major damage to any one spot. One of my first Pool Rooms that used the BreakRAK for practice, started asking about a pad, maybe that's where it started. Today, I use the pad because I want to... it cuts down on the tracks left by the Cue Ball's bounce down to the lead ball.

In my 24 year history of Break Shots, I choose to use the pad. Two things happen... you are hitting downward on the cue ball, at an angle & you are hitting it hard. That can damage the cloth. My friend demands that we use a pad on his table, no one minds. Everyone is their own boss.
 
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I recently changed my cloth and have the old cloth being made into break pads for myself, and everybody who needs/wants one or two.
 
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