On 7/22/19 11:03 AM, Clare Snyder wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 09:24:25 -0400, Gary wrote:

Hawk wrote:

On 7/21/2019 9:56 AM, Gary wrote:
wrote:

Need to cut an 1.5" X into 96 tennis balls. (To attach to classroom
chair legs, if you must know ;-)

Why not just buy those sticky felt pads for the chair legs?
Available at any hardware store in various sizes. Using half
tennis balls sounds a bit silly to me. Never seen that done in
any classroom or house with hardwood floors.


I'm assuming you've never used those sticky pads before or on furniture
which isn't moved very often. Applying those pads on furniture legs with
kids that move the furniture on a daily basis will give them about a two
week live span if that. It's not a formal environment, I think tennis
balls are good ideas.

Funny how all of the sudden, half tennis balls are a good idea.
I've never seen that done. In household, the felt pads work well.
In classrooms, and thinking of my school years in the 1960s, I
don't think the chairs or desks had any bottom thing attached to
legs. Just plain wood. Never noticed scuffs all over the floors
back then.

Why is this such an issue 100 years later?
Because the chairs are now STEEL - NOT WOOD!!! It is a different
century now. Keeping tips on tubular steel chair legs is a
never-ending project.



And yet the friction material somehow manages to stay attached to a
brake pad backing plate.