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Hellbound

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Domination change needed
« on: March 21, 2007, 03:06:48 PM »
My Domination is way too much on the backend..looking for a way to smooth it out a tad.
As OOB is 1500 grit polished, would sanding to 400 grit then polish, help to smooth the reaction out?

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dizzyfugu

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Re: Domination change needed
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2007, 04:24:36 AM »
I'd completely take off the polish. A slight (wet) scuffing with a scotch brite pad might be enough. If you want to do it more professionally, apply a 4.000 grit Abralon finish with a spinner, from 4 or 6 sides. This is still a glossy finish (which helps the ball get though the heads as long as there is some decent oil), but helps it read the midlane and dry parts of the lane more gradually, reducing the jerking reaction once it hits the dry. Overall hook should not suffer much, it might just be less angular and a little earlier.

Another option could be a rougher sanding finish plus some rubbing compound like Brunswick's Rough Buff.
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Splitz

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Re: Domination change needed
« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2007, 01:03:13 PM »
My Domination was OK for really clean backends but if there was a little more oil to cut through it just didn't hack it.  I went down to 1000 and polished it.  It was better but still not quite what I wanted.  When I took it down to the 1000 polished the backend was hardly tamer by any stretch of the imagination.  I thought about 500 and then polishing it but as the polish started to wear off at 1000 it started reading the mids better.  So, I wouldn't be afraid of 2000 or 1000 grit and no polish.  I'd still like to try 500 polished on the Domination, but I did that with another ball and the reaction wasn't what I expected as the polish overcame the grit.  I tried Ebonite Factory Finish and Brunswick High Gloss polishes and it seems the Brunswick is slicker for me even with a less glossy look to the ball.  I'm throwing on HPL9000 surface so take that into consideration.  On a lighter pattern on wood my Domination OOB was a monster that didn't want to behave, so I use it on the synthetics or wait for more oil on the wood.