HELP! I need to remove pencil lines

[hodgey]

Hi,

My father made a mistake and made the D an inch out, we brushed away the pencil but you can see it faintly, is there a better way of removing it? Its was made with a standard drawing pencil not a 'snooker marking pencil'

[ryanah147]

removing pencil mark

I once had the same problem as you, but it was with a Baulk line marking pencil. What I did was brush it out as much I could, then I went over the line using Triangle chalk (green) and started brushing again. Afetr repeating the `chalking` 99% of the pencil mark had completly faded
Hope this is of use to you.
Ryanah

[ADR147]

not my area but i think somebody once told me white bread works - could be bollocks though!

[senga147]

Oencil line.

I have used standard cellulose thinners which works well. Put on a piece of scrap cloth (baize if you have it) and rub gently with direction of nap. If you don`t want to try this, the line will naturally wear through time and brushing.

[ste bed]

use a rubber i have tried it before it works fine you have to brush the table realy well and give it a good iron after but it works great.

[hodgey]

cheers i'll try the rubber and see if that helps, i have seen a cloth cleaner on various snooker sites to remove chalk but i guess it may help remove a faint pencil mark... trouble is I'm living in Sweden now and snooker shops are few and far between.

[senga147]

pencil line

I`ve been fitting tables for 18 years and have never used a rubber. I would advise if you are going to use a rubber only rub with the nap.

[hodgey]

nap? what do you mean by that the tip of the rubber?

[Nathan147]

The nap is the natural direction in which the fibre of the cloth lies; Senga is recommending you rub "with" the nap, i.e. towards the black spot.

[senga147]

Pencil line

As the previous post said the Nap is the direction of the fibres`. If you gently rub the palm of your hand against the nap (away from black spot) and then with the nap, you should feel a roughness and the opposite way, smoothness. This is the nap.

The mills that manufacture the cloth spend a great deal of time and effort `setting` this nap by means of `teazles`set in rotating drums. This lines up the fibres in a uniform direction.

If you use a rubber to erase this line, DO NOT rub against the nap as this may damage the nap.

As I posted previously, I have used cellulose thinners. However this was on a customers table and it worked fine. No discolouration to cloth or dye run occurred. However I would test on a inconspicious area first, as I only use West of England cloth. Other makes, I cannot vouch for. If it were my own table I would leave it to fade naturally. This can be helped by regularly re-marking the correct line and `D`, thus making this more prominent.

[hodgey]

Excellent tips thanks a lot, I guess you had a laugh at my expense with regards to the 'nap' haha! I have to remember all the terms its been many moons since i played, my father was pretty good though as he managed a snooker club 'Kansas city' in Lewisham south london although didn't help my new table much when he did it wrong :-| but i guess theres a big difference between 12ft and 6ft tables!

[Mellow Yellow]

not my area but i think somebody once told me white bread works - could be bollocks though!

surely that would hurt????????????

[poona]

Buy some white tailors chalk and re-draw the lines and spots. Use them as your reference points. White tailors chalk is what is used on the pro-circuit.

[Geoff Large]

ACETONE is the prefered Fitters method of erazing a Baulk line , if the chemist has none then buy Nail varnish remover with a good acetone percentage in it . rub on with a patch of old billiard cloth .
If marked out in perm marker then forget it as it will smear , only use baulk pencil .
when restretching a cloth the baulk line is marked out at 31 inch from end of slate , the old line will be about half inch behind this so must be erazed useing Acetone .