ckboon -  I would stay away from most car polishes.  Most will seal the pores and kill the reaction and damage the coverstock.

Stick to using Bowling ball polishes.  They aren't that expensive and you'll get less grief.

I personally use Ebonites line and thenm finish it off with my Elixir.  If you haven't heard of it go to my website and check it out.
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In the past I have used various car waxes on my spare balls, and found they really don't cut the hook of plastic anymore than regular ball polish does.

As for more modern balls, I have actually tried this on two strike balls, an El Nino X-it and a Quantum Raven. It didn't seem to have much impact at all on the reactive Raven, but totally killed the proactive X-It. I think the moral of the story is that polishing proactive balls with anything produces a more dramatic impact than polishing reactive. Or that is what I have found, anyway.

Everything I spoke about here was applied with a spinner, just for reference. I'd highly suggest just picking up a bottle of ball polish from a pro shop, simply to be safe. A $10 bottle will last a lot longer than you would expect.
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Proud owner of a 111-111-111 triplicate series. And a Winnie-The-Pooh spare ball.

A number of people talk about Fineese It. Where do you buy this polish? I have not seen it at any of the "on line" shops/suppliers.

How does it compare to Black Magic?
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M1, how does it compare to Black Magic? If you don't know, does anyone else know?



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In the old days, they used axes to chop up wood...Nowadays, they use "BUZZSAWS".