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Ric Clint

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How do YOU do the Hot Water bath?
« on: May 18, 2004, 03:15:19 PM »
Here's what I do:

I sand the ball down to 600 grit with Scotchbrite... then I use Track's Clean N' Dull to get a deep cleaning... then I put the ball in a bucket of really hot water and let it set for 30 minutes... then I take the ball out of the bucket and wash it off with Dawn real good and rinse the ball off under the faucet... then I empty the water out of the bucket and refill it with "fresh" really hot water and toss the ball back in the bucket and let it set for 1 hour... then I take the ball out of the bucket and wash it off with Dawn real good again and rinse the ball off under the faucet... then I use Track's Clean N' Dull again to just get off any excess junk off of the ball.


Is this process okay... or should I do something differently? How do ya'll do it?





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Brickguy221

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Re: How do YOU do the Hot Water bath?
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2004, 09:16:57 AM »
I think you are supposed to put the Dawn soap in the bucket with the hot water and soak it, where as you said you put ball in hot water, took ball out, and washed with Dawn soap. I haven't done this, only heard about it and I think this is what has been said. However I've never heard anyone say how much soap to use.

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Ric Clint

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Re: How do YOU do the Hot Water bath?
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2004, 12:00:39 AM »
Ohhh... really? I thought you were just suppose to soak it in the Hot Water alone... maybe you are suppose to soak it in the Hot Water WITH the dishwashing soap too?

Anybody that's done this process know for sure?




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gbushman

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Re: How do YOU do the Hot Water bath?
« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2004, 12:22:36 AM »
Put BALL in bucket.  Put some DAWN in.  Add HOT water.  Let SOAK for 10 to 20 minutes.  Take ball OUT and WIPE off.  REPEAT.  RINSE.
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Re: How do YOU do the Hot Water bath?
« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2004, 03:46:02 PM »
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Periodically I will add a bit of dishsoap and swish around in order to keep the soapiness up - I'm looking to figure out how to automate this the same way I do the water.

 


Dishwasher method?
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Re: How do YOU do the Hot Water bath?
« Reply #5 on: May 21, 2004, 05:04:32 PM »
How do I do a hot water bath.  I fill up the tub with hot water and add the bath crystals.  Grab the wife and hop in.

She gets my balls really clean that way.


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Re: How do YOU do the Hot Water bath?
« Reply #6 on: May 21, 2004, 05:25:00 PM »
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Re: How do YOU do the Hot Water bath?
« Reply #7 on: June 04, 2004, 07:31:15 PM »
I take alcohol and a scotch brite pad to my ball, clean it up some.  Then, set it in the dishwasher for 10 minutes or so, dry it off, and then clean it good with windex.
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Re: How do YOU do the Hot Water bath?
« Reply #8 on: June 16, 2004, 02:19:04 PM »
mmmm dishwasher method ? I'm just about to re do my kitchen and it will include a dishwasher. Would anyone like to elaborate on the dish washer method for me . I'm sure I read about it on here before but I cant find the post.
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Re: How do YOU do the Hot Water bath?
« Reply #9 on: June 16, 2004, 02:33:30 PM »

I've run my equipment (ok, not the shoes) through the dishwasher with good results.  The dishwasher soap seems to work fine, but you MUST turn off the "Dry Heat" on the dishwasher or the extreme heat does bad things to the stuff holding the ball /core layers together.

Allow 24 hours to dry or the ball acts funny (don't mean ha ha).

Also, face the holes down...
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Iketown300

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Re: How do YOU do the Hot Water bath?
« Reply #10 on: June 16, 2004, 03:20:25 PM »
I've actually done this and they are right about putting the dishsoap in with the hot water but one thing you have to do is to TAPE UP THE FINGER AND THUMB HOLES AND EXCESS HOLES IF ANY....otherwise your ball will become waterlogged just like a wet baseball and then might actually be over the 16 lb. mark and be an "illegal" ball.....

Another method is to throw it in the stove.  Put the ball on the pan in the oven on a very low setting about 100 or so degrees and let the ball set.  You can actually watch the oil come out of the ball then take it out, wipe it off with paper towels and then you can use any ball cleaner or alcohol that you wish.  Worked great when i did it.
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Re: How do YOU do the Hot Water bath?
« Reply #11 on: June 16, 2004, 03:30:01 PM »
Don't put paper towels in the oven.  Even at 80 degrees (I have never seen one with that low a setting.
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thfonz98

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Re: How do YOU do the Hot Water bath?
« Reply #12 on: June 16, 2004, 03:48:23 PM »
tape w/water,i dont trust it....i found silly puddy works well(my roommate has a 5 pound hunk of it) leaves no residue on the ball and pops off the holes easily(after about 1 minute of cooling off time)...it wont take a direct blast of my lower dishwasher jets so i use it with the holes UP

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MI 2 AZ

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Re: How do YOU do the Hot Water bath?
« Reply #13 on: June 16, 2004, 04:46:34 PM »
I have used the hot water in a bucket or sink method and have heard good results with the dishwasher method (no heat cycle) but dont trust the oven method.  Here is a link to:

Mark Martin's Recipe for
Baked Bowling Ball

You will have to scroll down to bottom of the page:

http://www.gdba.com/News.htm
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Re: How do YOU do the Hot Water bath?
« Reply #14 on: June 16, 2004, 04:59:20 PM »
from http://www.gdba.com/News.htm

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Approximately five minutes later when I went to check on it, I got the surprise of my life. Upon opening the oven door my Red Alert had become a flaming Red Alert and came rolling out of the oven onto the floor in the kitchen still in flames.
 


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The moral of the story is "bake" don't "broil" and then only by a qualified professional.


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