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Tugger

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polishing a rival
« on: September 27, 2007, 03:50:25 PM »
I currently have a Rival drilled with layout 1 in Columbia's drill sheet. I have it polished with Storm X-tra Shine, which I believe my proshop told me is a 3500 grit polish. How often do I need to re-apply polish my ball to keep it where it is now? Also, will cleaning the ball take the polish off of it?


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justdale

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Re: polishing a rival
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2007, 09:31:17 AM »
Depending on how you take care of your equipment, and how often you bowl. I would say every 30 games or so.
I would look at it this way, if your intelligent enough to know that you needed to get this ball polished to work for you, than your smart enough to know when you see the polish starting to wear off. I don't mean this in any derogatory manner, so please don't be offended.
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Tugger

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Re: polishing a rival
« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2007, 07:36:15 PM »
i don't take offense to your comment. all i know is i asked the proshop guy if he thought i needed a weight hole in the ball. he watched me throw it, and told me that polish would be a good first choice. so he polished it. I like the ball now but i just didn't know how often i needed to take it back to him and get a fresh coat of polish.
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charlest

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Re: polishing a rival
« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2007, 07:49:23 PM »
Tugger,

When the XTra Shine bottle said it was "3500" grit, that actually measn that the higheest grit and the most shine you can on a ball with that polish with LOTS of polish, with LOTS of pressure, with LOTS of time on a SPinner is 3500 grit. If you just put a glob on the ball and pressed with a clean cloth for 2 or 3 minutes, you might have a 1500 grit shine.

That "3500" grit is maximum potential, not every application.

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