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Arcade Collecting => Miscellaneous Arcade Talk => Topic started by: JeepMonkey on September 06, 2007, 12:16:05 pm

Title: Score Keeping Reals
Post by: JeepMonkey on September 06, 2007, 12:16:05 pm

A friend of mine is looking for a set of score keeping reals.  The kind that are flush mounted in the side of a pool table, which are on reals/rolls.  Prefereable a three real.  Can anyone tell me what these are called and where one might be able to purchase them?

Title: Re: Score Keeping Reals
Post by: ChadTower on September 06, 2007, 12:36:48 pm

The only ones I've seen are totally fake. 

Title: Re: Score Keeping Reals
Post by: Kevin Mullins on September 06, 2007, 06:56:44 pm

I've never seen score keeper reels on a pool table before......  ???

Title: Re: Score Keeping Reals
Post by: shardian on September 06, 2007, 08:33:10 pm

They are on most coin-op pool tables. I don't think I've ever seen one on a non-commercial table.

You can look, but I highly doubt you will find an aftermarket solution.

Title: Re: Score Keeping Reals
Post by: Kevin Mullins on September 07, 2007, 01:20:37 am

Ah.... now that I've seen one I kinda recognize them..... never used one.  :P

(http://z.about.com/d/billiards/1/8/g/2/-/-/counter.jpg)

Title: Re: Score Keeping Reals
Post by: SavannahLion on September 07, 2007, 01:25:38 pm

Quote from: Kevin Mullins on September 07, 2007, 01:20:37 am

Ah.... now that I've seen one I kinda recognize them..... never used one.  :P

(http://z.about.com/d/billiards/1/8/g/2/-/-/counter.jpg)

Most people never use them because by the time the score is actually meaningful, most people are too ---smurfing--- sloshed to know what comes after ten.

They're apparently pretty cheap (http://www.billiardsstore.com/display/scat/price/264.cfm).

I see plastic beads (http://www.fivestarbilliards.com/thestore/prods/GAPSB.html) more often in home environments.