Snooker Balls. polishing.

[jrc750]

lol jrc for moderator!

I think i may be too harsh lol

[ADR147]

I think i may be too harsh lol

just be like me i never moderate anything unless its spam or blatantly offensive!

[shafter]

Hi all, wonder if you can help? ive just bought a second hand set of Aramith t c snooker balls, (hardly used) ive cleaned them in warm to hot water with washing up liquid and they dont look good! its like the colour has fadded off them and they have lost all their sheen,
(they look a right mess!!) is there a solution to this or do i bin them? :-((

[Maxsys]

Hi all, wonder if you can help? ive just bought a second hand set of Aramith t c snooker balls, (hardly used) ive cleaned them in warm to hot water with washing up liquid and they dont look good! its like the colour has fadded off them and they have lost all their sheen,
(they look a right mess!!) is there a solution to this or do i bin them? :-((

Buy this, and get yourself a large tub of elbow grease, works a treat http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ARAMITH-PO...item5ae1f3e95d

[shafter]

just ordered them, will let you know how i get on, cheers

[inevermissblue]

Hi there. I have to confirm that using Aramith ball cleaner on the cueball and Autoglym super resin polish on the reds and colours is defo the way to go! This coupled with my Table cleaning method transforms most tables into pristine playing conditions.

How many of us are playing with clean match balls on an uncleaned table??? (meaning just brushed, padded & ironed) ???
Or...even worse a cleaned table and unclean match balls???
Worse still...would be both uncleaned???

Anyone wishing to know more message me and i will send you my table cleaning method! the results are incredible!!!

[MasterBreak147]

How many of us are playing with clean match balls on an uncleaned table??? (meaning just brushed, padded & ironed) ???

Me!! but after doing the above i consider it cleaned or am i doing it incorrectly?
So based on that im interested in anything that makes playing standards better so fire away

[inevermissblue]

PM sent MasterBreak147!

No more Square bounces off cushions! just slide, hardly any kicks, Spin maintained! not lost!
Only achieved by following both processes! (table and balls) Try it and tell me i'm wrong!!! :-)

[inevermissblue]

I'm playing 2 singles league matches tonight at a club i won't mention where they 'traditionally' clean their tables. So tonight i'm taking my cleaned match balls with me for a change. As they neglect to clean theirs. Needless to say, this will only be half the battle unfortunately!

[Staezione]

I would like to know how to get those ultimate playing conditions!

[davipp]

[How many of us are playing with clean match balls on an uncleaned table??? (meaning just brushed, padded & ironed) ???

Once or twice a year I brush my table from top cushion to baulk cushion. After brushing the table I use a damp cloth to remove the dust. I then brush the table from baulk to top and use a damp cloth again. I then use a velvet pad and then iron.
I know there is a product to clean the cloth for pool tables but I don't know if they work well on snooker cloth with nap?

If you are doing something different to my method I would be very interested in knowing too. Cheers Inevermissblue

[jrc750]

Once or twice a year I brush my table from top cushion to baulk cushion.....

I believe that is a big no no !!!!

[DeanH]

I believe that is a big no no !!!!

argh! yep should always be baulk to top cushion (black spot)

I think maybe that the thinking is that if brushing the wrong way, you can get the dust from between the cloth, then brushing back the right way afterwards but I believe that the cloth will need so much effort to get back to anywhere near what it should be, that for the "possible" more dust removed does not warrant the massive extra effort

[inevermissblue]

This is a good theory Inverted-spin, though i do not buy into it.
Kicks are a result of the condition of the playing surface! Professional tournaments have alot of kicks in matches. Now the cloths are brand new and the match balls are brand new. However grease from hands and fingertips build up gradually and these areas of the table, if involved at the contact point on any particular shot will produce a kick. As far as to say that if the balls are as clean as the playing surface then there isn't much that can go wrong. Apart from the introduction of grease.
We discovered this when we looked at addressing the state of our cloths in various venues. Quickly realizing that if the cloth's grease issue's were tackled and correctly polished balls introduced, then we could literally play well upto 9-10 frames before the kicks started to happen. Which confirms to us that there is an outside influence that makes this happen (grease).

[itsnoteasy]

I don't know what causes kicks, but something I have noticed is our normal club balls are the premier ones and you get horrendous kicks and bad contacts off them (granted probably never cleaned ) playing long blues with any pace and you will see the blue leave the table by up to an inch that's how bad it can be, and when playing follow through the white just stops and you get that horrible sound of the bad contact. Recently when playing league games a lot of teams use the tournament balls (not sure if it's the 1gs or just the TCs)and I have never seen or heard a bad contact off them, theses balls are used on the same tables(as our club has six or seven teams in the league) , could be because theses balls are looked after and are round, instead of chipped to bits like the normal club balls, but I have seen over a hundred frames with the TC balls and not seen one kick, are they made differently?