I have just one day next week where I will be able to answer emails and home telephone calls and that is Monday the 4th of March. If anyone wishes to contact me from the 5th to the 8th of March, please phone the mobile number 07753 466064. If emailing me please wait until Saturday the 9th of March for a reply.
I have a day in Leicester, then three days on the East coast. On Friday I have a re-cover and maybe re-rubber if cushions are dead at Tattershall in Lincolnshire on the way back from the coast, so a very busy fully booked week.
It may be that the cushions in Tatershall have not been screwed up tight enough, loose cushions will not rebound well. If that is the case GCL Billiards will not try and get a re-rubber out of the job, I will just inform the owner that his cushions were loose and that will be good news for him.
The following week 18th to 22nd of March, I have three full size re-covers booked in and three installations of new pro lighting at another club. I may have a spare day towards the end of that week if someone is desperate to have a table re-covered or work done.
From time to time I share some of my findings as a Billiards fitter. Here is one about using speed cloth on UK pool tables. UK pool tables have L shape rubber, American pool tables that speed cloth is designed for, have triangle rubber. It is very difficult to fit speed cloth to L shaped rubber cushions without bending the rubber down when tensioning the cloth onto the cushion. Where wool based napped cloth is much better for UK pool tables, I see no point in using speed cloth on them, but people still ask for it. I think it is because it is a tough cloth and does not rip easily and lasts a long time. But it suffers from cue / ball burn marks easy.
Wool based napped cloth, if mistreated, tears easy, but does not suffer the cue / ball burn marks like man made fibre speed cloths. So you have the choice what cloth you want – speed cloth or wool based cloth, it does not matter to us, we fit both.
A Sam K steel American pool table. These have triangle rubber unlike UK snooker and pool tables which have L shape rubber. Speed cloth is designed for triangle rubber as it bends L shape rubber over if it is a bit soft.
American triangle shaped pool rubber.
Northern Rubber the best you can buy to fit to snooker and some UK pool tables.
