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(More customer reviews)Pros: If you like black light, this is the only game in town I know of, and living in a college town renting out rooms to college students, well, what can I say?
Cons:
1. The 8-ball. If it was black it would be invisible, so it's white with a black circle around a white number 8. Check out the picture and you'll see. An unavoidable issue but it doesn't significantly interfere with play.
2. Attachment hardware for the green tubing doesn't work for the pockets. Specifically, the tubing over the pockets will come loose from your cue rubbing against the tubing on ordinary shots over the pockets. It might stay in place for a game, maybe two, but will be a constant nuisance if installed per the instructions. And worse, the attachment hardware for the pockets is tiny spikes meant to stick out of the tubing that you stick into your felt, so using this setup as designed at the least you'll make multiple pinpricks in your felt, and sooner or later you'll rip your felt.
That said, after significant installation modifications I'm very happy with the results, though depending on how expensive a table you own, and how into black light you are, you may not be interested in putting in the time and effort.
Included with the set:
Tubing, enough to outfit a nine foot table. Great responsiveness to black light, and with my table enough left over to highlight parts of the rails on the 'flip' air hockey side of my table.
Springs to attach the tubing (more later), note that you get one extra of each of the two types of spring, nice touch.
Black-light responsive balls. The dark blue and dark red solid balls don't glow very much compared to the neon green, and the 8-ball by necessity is white with a black circle around the eight.
Neon green round stickers for the 'aimer' things along your rails. My flip table is in the garage which is unheated and a couple of my stickers fell off when flipped over, so I stuck them back on with Super Glue Gel and needless to say haven't had the problem since.
What look like very small rubber bands, but extra wide, responsive to black light, to put on your cue to aid in aiming your shots. I needed to be careful to put them in just the right spot to avoid interfering with shots, and was using fluorescent stickers for black light air hockey and darts anyway so I used stickers instead and am glad I went with that.
Installation:
With the Springs, you push one end into the tubing, and the other end has a hook that you snag into the inside of a pocket and then run the tubing along the railing where it won't interfere with play. The instructions say to staple the springs in place, but I don't see how anything but a staple gun (which I don't have) would work for this purpose, and this step hasn't been necessary even rotating my table between billiards and air hockey.
The big flaw with this system is with the tubing over the pockets. That's installed around the outside edges on top of the pockets. Instead of hooks on the other end of the spring there are 'points' that you're supposed to jab into the felt. First, what if you had a really nice table, would you really want to be intentionally damaging your felt like that? Second, making a shot from behind/above a pocket with tubing installed will dislodge the tubing if you just install it per the instructions, so as far as I'm concerned this product simply does not work as designed. Looks awesome and everything, but if you install this for a party you'll get frustrated with the tubing setup over the pockets very quickly I guarantee. And stapling the hooks/spikes into the tubing would only effect their stability inside the tubing, not their stability in your felt when your cue rubs against them and dislodges them.
In other words, you can't actually install this product per the instructions and play billiards!
With my table I was determined to make this work as black light makes the table (and therefore the rooms I rent in this house) more appealing, so I took 3M double-sided adhesive tape and applied it directly to my rails, then glued the tubing on with Super Glue gel, finally cutting off the excess adhesive tape with a pocketknife. My table is nothing special and this is a permanent installation so this wasn't a problem for me but this is just about the only way you'll get the tubing to work for you on the pockets, and you need to see the pockets to play under black light.
I don't know if Aramith sells just the balls seperately, but if they do you might consider buying just them and then applying some combination of fluorescent stickers along the railings and on your cue that you're comfortable with. Avery makes 2x4" fluorescent stickers in a 150 pack that come in green, pink and yellow though the green doesn't respond to black light FYI. At four inches long, with 50 of each color, if you cut the stickers in half you could have an inch wide strip of either yellow or pink along the entire railing of a seven foot table, with the opposite color for the pockets and to accent your cue. Should look nice if you make the cuts look neat. That and the balls alone may be a better (and cheaper) option, especially if the thought of applying two-sided adhesive and Super Glue to parts of your table makes you blanch.
After two months I'd say I'm quite glad I had extra pink fluorescent stickers to accentuate my cues versus their rubber bands, though their bands do work OK. And after two months one end of one piece of tubing on one of the pockets will have to be re-glued, so it looks like I came up with a durable installation scheme.
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