The difference in weight between snooker and billiard balls

[Shockerz]

I had a game of billiards today for the first time in a year or two and it certainly seemed the 3 billiard balls were heavier than the snooker balls.

I may be incorrect but I would have bet on it (the snooker balls were Aramith Tournament Balls (3g) and the billiard balls were Aramith Tournament Balls).

I'm just curious as they totally reacted differently after playing snooker.

[blahblah01]

Sure they weren't Crystallite?

[Shockerz]

Sure they weren't Crystallite?

Brand new from Peradon a couple of years ago.

[Shockerz]

Just checked.........phenolic

[DeanH]

The difference in weight between snooker and billiard balls

Aramith do snooker and billiard balls in the Tournament Champion in 3g and 1g sets.
They will be both be in the same weight range of 138-143g (set depending)
Aramith also do a Premier range for both that are lighter -around 120-130g range.
Aramith also do Saturday model called Super Crystallate that weight about the same as TCs.
The old British Composite Company did a ball called Super Crystallate that were heavier than TCs.
Even older there were Crystallate and Bonzolite and others that came after the ivory ball ban. not sure of their weights.

in our club you often hear "these balls are heavier than usual and they are plying with TCs when they were unaware of usually playing with Premiers

[Shockerz]

Aramith do snooker and billiard balls in the Tournament Champion in 3g and 1g sets.
They will be both be in the same weight range of 138-143g (set depending)
Aramith also do a Premier range for both that are lighter -around 120-130g range.
Aramith also do Saturday model called Super Crystallate that weight about the same as TCs.
The old British Composite Company did a ball called Super Crystallate that were heavier than TCs.
Even older there were Crystallate and Bonzolite and others that came after the ivory ball ban. not sure of their weights.

in our club you often hear "these balls are heavier than usual and they are plying with TCs when they were unaware of usually playing with Premiers

Thanks for all that Dean.

That's it, the scales are going with me tomorrow as surely it can;t be my fault that they didn't react the way I asked them with my perfect cueing.......yeah right!

Scales it is then.

[DeanH]

The difference in weight between snooker and billiard balls

let us know what you find

in a cupboard at the club there are some old composite company SCs that the old billiards players pull out
One day I'll take a scales down and check them

[Shockerz]

let us know what you find

in a cupboard at the club there are some old composite company SCs that the old billiards players pull out

I had a double take then as I thought you were talking about the cupboard at our club, I thought how does he know that as we have a few old sets in there.

I'll let you know.

[DeanH]

The difference in weight between snooker and billiard balls

Soz for the confusion

maybe check any cupboards at your club :wink:

[Shockerz]

Soz for the confusion

maybe check any cupboards at your club :wink:

Ha Ha.

I'll weigh everything that moves in that cupboard and get back to you!

[Bigmeek]

Billiard balls need to be within a tolerance of 0.5g (between lightest and heaviest) and snooker balls need to be within a tolerance of 3g. There seems to be quite a variance in the weights of TC balls produced by Aramith. Some can be as light as 138g and some as heavy as 142g. I'm no expert on billiard balls but the ones I've seen tend to be at the heavier end, say, 142ish.

[DeanH]

Billiard balls need to be within a tolerance of 1g (between lightest and heaviest) and snooker balls need to be within a tolerance of 3g. There seems to be quite a variance in the weights of TC balls produced by Aramith. Some can be as light as 138g and some as heavy as 142g. I'm no expert on billiard balls but the ones I've seen tend to be at the heavier end, say, 142ish.

WPBSA rules state 0.5g range between two balls in the set of three, got to admit I don't follow the billiards side of cue sports much
I will weigh the sets down the club soon

[Bigmeek]

WPBSA rules state 0.5g range between two balls in the set of three, got to admit I don't follow the billiards side of cue sports much
I will weigh the sets down the club soon

Lol, finger trouble, edited.

[vmax]

let us know what you find

in a cupboard at the club there are some old composite company SCs that the old billiards players pull out
One day I'll take a scales down and check them

The old super crystalates are the same weight as the new Aramith phenolic resin balls, I know as I have a set of Aramith Supers, which are in fact phenolic resin., and original supers and original supers billiard balls; all the snooker balls are within a couple of grammes of each other and the billiard balls spot and plain are both 1 gramme lighter than the red as they've been struck by chalky tips many thousands of times over the years so have lost some mass.

[DeanH]

The old super crystalates are the same weight as the new Aramith phenolic resin balls, I know as I have a set of Aramith Supers, which are in fact phenolic resin., and original supers and original supers billiard balls; all the snooker balls are within a couple of grammes of each other and the billiard balls spot and plain are both 1 gramme lighter than the red as they've been struck by chalky tips many thousands of times over the years so have lost some mass.

cheers for that info