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Since many of you talk about the tables of old, and how they had a different style of play, I was wondering if anyone has an old TS table. They sell them on eBay all the time, and the parts seem to be rather inexpensive. Does anyone still have a table they use for the nostalgic style of play?
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i have a Brown Top I bought in 79 I think...actually my son has it but I haven't really played on it more than a couple of times in the last 10 years but both of those were recently and it did bring back a lot of memories...solid rods and much more ball control (when the ball is pinned) then on Tornado
clickity click of the plastic washers between the bummer and the wall, smaller goal, TS ball with the TS stamp in the middle of it, etc
little foot looks like it won't do anything but cranks stuff out like nobodies business and banks banks banks...what fun that was...it would take some getting used to because controlling the ball inline is a challenge becasue the ball isn't so round and I am sure my table playfield isn't level
oh, and you CAN NOT find old used ones on ebay very often
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Here is a rosewood TS on Ebay
Here is a old Dynamo
I haven't seen this many in awhile though.
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try (craigs list) old ts & dynamo
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wow, I wish I lived in PA, I would really like to have a blue top coin opp, that is the table I did most of my serious practice on the first time around...and this one looks like it is in pretty good condition
then I would like to get a coin-op green top and then I would have the complete trio in order Green, Blue, Brown...sort of like karate belts
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My friend Tyler has some good TS photos at
Check it out
AC
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i had forgotten about those, all of them look to be in super condition...what memories, very cool, thanks
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That Blue top was sweet to play on. I see that there is a Bonzini on Craigslist for $150. If only I had another room for it,,,
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Craigslist in which city?
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Eugene, Oregon
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We were given our brown top as a wedding present from all our fooser friends in '78. We still have it with peeling rods and all. We can't find the right balls for it. As a goalie is was great fun to play on, less crap bouncing off the goalie rod (only one man), smaller goals, the balls didn't take flight on their own, and awesome, accurate, killer bankshots! We took a break from the tournament scene for 25 years and now playing for a year and a half .....slowly we are getting the hang of the Tornado table
Q: How do you spot a TS player?
A: Wrinkles, a bottle of Advil at every tournament, and a backpin shot from the front!
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Wrinkles? Well yeah,,, Advil, well it is ibuprofen isn't it? Hmmm very insightful statement cause I'll certainly throw some back pin shots at you!
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is the hand position on the rod underhanded when shooting the backpin...just seen a guy round here shoot it and he grips it sort of underhanded.....
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All wrist on back pin always dead bar both sides and and a small bag of powder to dry your hand .replaced by bengay
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no, not underhand...mine is a little the other direction if anything but i can't say that is standard, I haven't seen enough of them for sure to say...besides mine, I have only see the two that started me - my early mentor Jevat Meha and his mentor George Petro??? I think it is PETROHELOUS - both were from Chicago we just called him Petro
Jevat didn't shot it all the time and he was primarily a goalie and outside of Petro, I never saw anyone shoot it as a primary shot except me from 76-81...I understand that it became popular in the 80's after I wasn't playing any more
and we all know why don't we ... okay, I will spell it out...because they saw me shooting it and they realized it could be a real shot :D
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My friend Tyler has some good TS photos at
http://www.jacksonvilletablesoccer.com/page13.html
Check it out
AC
Wow, Alan, those brown-top million dollar table photos sure bring back memories for me. Long open-handed pull kicks, and believe it or not I did cutbackangles from both corners and banks to either wall from all 3 men. I used to drive the other guys in the game room nuts with my rocking reverse banks. Ahhh the good old days...
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I got to play on the Brown Top a little. The first shot I did was a middle man 3-bar outside wall bank from the back pin position. Snapped it off the first time. Then a few air shots from back.
I forgot what it was like holding on to that cucumber handle :D
AC
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I got to play on the Brown Top a little. The first shot I did was a middle man 3-bar outside wall bank from the back pin position. Snapped it off the first time. Then a few air shots from back.
I forgot what it was like holding on to that cucumber handle :D
AC
Yep, mine were from a backpin too, executed with an open-hand. I seem to remember that being the first time I used an inner tube to get a better grip, because the hard plastic handles were slippery when wet, and I couldn't even get a good grip using my old glove from the blue top's skinny ribbed handle era. Not just any inner tube, I think it was from the fatty slick tire on an old 5 speed chopper-style spyder bike, there was no way a 10-speeds' tire innertube was gonna fit on that big lumpy handle.
My next door neighbor made a remark at his last garage sale that he had a brown-top for sale in mint condition for $300, but since he just recently moved here I'm not that close with him and he didn't show much interest in coming over to play on my blonde Tornado. Now that the pic has brought back memories for me, I may badger him into letting me see it and if he comes down a little on the price I just may buy it for old times' sake. Wouldn't it be cool to have a mini-tourney with 2 or more different brands of table, going from one to the next? or even just have 2 mini-tourneys on the same night, at the same time, but on the different tables?
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or how about just a brown top tourny or a blue top or green...that would be way too cool
you couldn't use silicone though, it would have to be lemon Pledge
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or how about just a brown top tourny or a blue top or green...that would be way too cool
you couldn't use silicone though, it would have to be lemon Pledge
Yep, you got that right...that's all we used back then was the lemon pledge. I can remember having to tell the confused waitresses at the bars we played at to not "lemon pledge" the surface of the table, it was to be used for the rods only.
I actually lemon pledged the surface of my blonde recently, and it actually helped a little. Since the new fuzzy balls play so slow on the old blondes and brown marbles, I tried "pledging" it and it did make the surface a little slicker for the fuzzy balls so I could practice brush passes. The way it was, everytime I tried a brush pass, I would stub even if I tossed the ball as far back as possible. Of course my lack of talent on the brush (I prefer tic-tac stick or chip passes) didn't make it any easier either, but at least I can practice it a bit easier now.
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Thanx Alan..Brought back mems for me too.!!!! We used to play at a place appropriatly called "Funky Fingers" back in the day when I first started in the early eighties...Wow... as wildcard said..The good ole days!!! I didn't like the white ball too much nor the huge handles...lol