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General Category => Coverstock Preparation => Topic started by: Grayson on September 06, 2008, 09:02:28 AM

Title: Coverstock prep - ???
Post by: Grayson on September 06, 2008, 09:02:28 AM

So..

I have three balls:
a Solid Particle
A Pearl Particle
and A Pearl reactive

I used the same dulling procedure on all three... and got different results just by plain look.

the reactive pearl and the particle pearl are both tacky like hell and nice smooth dull

but the particle pearl is more shiny... and not so tacky but a bit slick like a polished ball it was before... the abrassive took no so much off the ball

so you must know the first two mentioned coverstock (pearl reactive and particle solid) are Brunswick and (I guess) PK18 origin
the Particle pearl is my Machine and old Track so Columbia origin

My question:
Are the old Columbia coverstocks harder by nature or why did the abreassive not take the ball down as it did the other two?

Oppinions?
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Title: Re: Coverstock prep - ???
Post by: charlest on September 06, 2008, 06:12:44 PM

Please define your dulling procedure.
Normally, based on past experience, Columbia particles are NOT as hard as Brunswick's ...
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Title: Re: Coverstock prep - ???
Post by: road94master on September 06, 2008, 06:25:17 PM

if the 3rd ball was the columbia and the same pad or paper by the time you hit the 3rd ball the paper or pad would be considerally duller

Title: Re: Coverstock prep - ???
Post by: Grayson on September 07, 2008, 03:52:01 AM

well I have something completely new....
I am working on a paste that has two purposes at the same time:
Cleaning and dulling/keeping the ball dull.

Testing the abrassive I found that result....

I use a wet piece of cloth on which I put the abrasive as a fine powder and rub the ball.
Funny is also that the finner abrassive is giving a better dulling result than the "rougher" one.

But I also found the Track Machine to be harder when using other abrassives.

So.... it is the ball itself I guess.
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Title: Re: Coverstock prep - ???
Post by: Oldskool2 on September 07, 2008, 06:00:53 AM

I had to resurface a Columbia Rock for a friend of mine. I had no problem getting the ball dull and tacky, but it has cost me a set of pads to get there.

It was very hard to sand and even with a 180 grit Abralon pad, there was not much sanded of.

I have no experience with other than Storm particles, but I know this one had a hard coverstock.



Edited on 9/7/2008 6:02 AM

Title: Re: Coverstock prep - ???
Post by: cudaskater123 on September 07, 2008, 06:10:25 AM

The only experience I have with changing coverstocks are with a Twisted Fury and a Columbia 300 Game. The Game didn't take long to dull up. The Twisted also did not take long. Both were pretty easy to get dull.
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