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lilpossum1

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Anyone polish a pitch black yet?
« on: April 16, 2015, 10:38:13 AM »
I am wondering how it turned out. I am thinking about polishing mine for a spare ball/burn ball. Sunday night, I don't think the lane man put out any oil for our league. I am 95% sure he didn't. I swear I saw my misfit pearl starting to hook at the arrows by the end of second game. And my pitch black also when I brought it out mid third game. I threw my primal rage for one shot in practice before putting it away.

 

lilpossum1

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Re: Anyone polish a pitch black yet?
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2015, 11:12:42 AM »
Bump. I hit it with the 2000 pad and lightly polished 6 sides. It doesn't look highly polished, but the cover feels very slick. Hoping I didn't over polish it

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Re: Anyone polish a pitch black yet?
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2015, 11:15:48 AM »
I don't own one but I've heard it's very hard to polish this ball. I'm curious with how yours turned out reaction wise.

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Re: Anyone polish a pitch black yet?
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2015, 01:00:00 PM »
Hard to polish how? Requires more pressure for a longer length of time like most urethane balls?

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Re: Anyone polish a pitch black yet?
« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2015, 01:05:48 PM »
I've been advised it doesn't really take to polish that well

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Re: Anyone polish a pitch black yet?
« Reply #5 on: April 18, 2015, 04:26:09 PM »
Hard to polish how? Requires more pressure for a longer length of time like most urethane balls?

From the Storm tech description of the Pitch Black, it seems like it probably old fashioned true urethane, not a urethane blend like most balls called "urethane" these days. As such it can be VERY, VERY hard to polish.

I think you need to take the surface up in stages from the stock 1000 grit to as high as you can, not skipping any stages in between grit levels. If it's as hard as old urethane is, you need to go from 1000 to 1200 to 1500 to 2000 to 2500 to 3000 to 4000 grit, before even considering polish. You might get all the skid you need at 3000 or 4000 grit.

Personally I found only Lane#1 Secret Sauce was capable of polish these true urethane balls.
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lilpossum1

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Re: Anyone polish a pitch black yet?
« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2015, 09:38:34 AM »
I hit it with 2000 on top of the factory finish and then hit it with the polish. It actually looks like it took a little shine. I couldn't shave using it, but I didn't want that much shine yet. I was just trying to get it to be a little better playing through dry. I am scare to polish urethane too much and kill all the friction

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Re: Anyone polish a pitch black yet?
« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2015, 01:36:56 PM »
I hit it with 2000 on top of the factory finish and then hit it with the polish. It actually looks like it took a little shine. I couldn't shave using it, but I didn't want that much shine yet. I was just trying to get it to be a little better playing through dry. I am scare to polish urethane too much and kill all the friction

I'd bet this finish closer to 4000 than over 4000, which would produce a shine.
Try it like this first. It may still skid too far; who knows until you test it. Then go from there.
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Re: Anyone polish a pitch black yet?
« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2015, 09:47:11 PM »
I had to change the surface to 4000 and polish it. When you polish it it doesn't look like if you would polish a non urethane ball would look. The results are the same. Out of box PAP at 5" and 1/2" up drill with Rico layout, right handed 15.5-16.5 mph 275 rpms, this ball was stronger than anticipated. I could swing it from board 15 to board 5. After going to 4000 surface and polish I played straight up 10 board and walks right in. Anyone else feel this ball was stronger than advertised? Out hooked my Crossroads before changing surface.
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Re: Anyone polish a pitch black yet?
« Reply #9 on: April 20, 2015, 12:32:00 PM »
+1 With the Secret Sause. It's the only polish I've found that will actually polish a true urathane ball.It works extremely well also. You can get a very high gloss with it. I do mine at 1000abr then polish