Thanks Alan,
Harry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan S. Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 6:59 AM
Subject: Re: [SaF] billiard ball construction
> On 22 Jun 2000, 0:00, Harry Jones wrote:
>
> > Can someone tell me where I might find out what billiard/pool balls are
> > made of and how they are constructed?
>
> Read this fascinating and informative page about plastics:
>
> http://www.iac.net/~syscon/claudio/plastic1.html
>
> Your answer begins in the second paragraph. However, in researching
> this query on the WWW for you, I think most manufacturers today use
> synthetic resin plastics to make the pool/billiards balls. Most of the
> sellers on the web speak of a "cast phenolic resin" as the composition
> of their balls.
>
> So the answer to your question is that the modern billiards balls are
> made of a "mighty hard plastic." :-)
>
> Alan
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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