Why so many Joint Thread Screw sizes ?

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I look at it like you either prefer a pin to wood connection like with a 3/8 10 or radial, or, you like a brass insert in your shaft like the 5/16 18-14 with many of them being piloted joints. The uni lock is like a super extreme piloted joint where the high tolerance of the pin into the shaft is the spin the manufacturer puts on it, but, in the end it is still a metal to metal connection which adds more weight to the joint.

you can go from an aluminum radial at .5 oz to a uni lock at over 2 ounces... big difference.

To me that's the main difference as opposed to the actual thread count of the pin.
 
So, there's both 3/8 x 11 and 3/8 x 11.5? Ugh. Maybe I'll just send my cue out to get Baxterized rather than take a chance on measuring something wrong.

I have two Phillippis, a 1990 player and a more recent (undated) break/jump that both use the 5/16x14 Acme thread. Had to go to Phillippi to get JP's that fit right.

For the life of me, once all my cues screwed together, I don't think I'd be able to tell one pin style from another. Have any cuemakers made a run of plain janes that only differed in joint type to somewhat objectively test such a subjective characteristic?
 
Ya got me

Every one has their idea of the perfect pin/joint. I like the big Radial pin and the wood to wood joint. My Pat Diveney cue and the 3 shafts I have for it have the Radial pin as does the jump/break cue he made for me. Lots of other styles seem to work well. So do we need all the other pins? Ya got me.
 
I believe the Uni-Lock corperation has the rights to the name Radial , just like the Uni-lock pin , you are not allowed to use that name . There are several pins out there that look like a radial but not the same . Most of these close knock-offs are comeing out of Asia . We really do have to many different pins .
 
My favorite is the 3/8x10, it seems to get a solid hit and looks like a professional type of pin, if that makes any sense really.

I think if there would be an industry standard war, the 3/8 x 10 would win for the wood pins and the Joss/Schon pins would win for the metal piloted pins.
 
hang-the-9 said:
My favorite is the 3/8x10, it seems to get a solid hit and looks like a professional type of pin, if that makes any sense really.

I think if there would be an industry standard war, the 3/8 x 10 would win for the wood pins and the Joss/Schon pins would win for the metal piloted pins.
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I got the same pin on my custom Cameron Cue and I really like it. (3/8 x 10)
I really like the hit.
 
prewarhero said:
You can add the ernie Martinez 3/8 x 12 pin to the list
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Add the old pre 3/8-12 Ernie Martinez pin from Showcase
I don't know what it is, but there's quite a few threads, and I do have the j/p's.
These originally started out as a mistake



 
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