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trash heap

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Question with a Manufacturer Surface Prep Process
« on: October 06, 2014, 09:59:21 AM »
Someone gave me a 14 lb. Columbia300 World Beater. It is a ball for my daughter. It is a little beat up. So it was sanded at the pro shop on Saturday. I took it home and put it in a bucket of hot water to get oil out of it.  Now its ready to go back to the pro shop to get resurfaced.

I looked at the ball's original prep process on Columbia 300's site and it confused me. Here it is:

800 Abranet™, 1000, 2000, 2000 Abralon®

Does this mean they did two passes of 2000 Abralon? If so what would be the purpose of that?

Before seeing this I was thinking starting out with something like 500 Abralon, then going straight to 2000 Abralon. Then adjust based on what we see at the lanes.
 
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Re: Question with a Manufacturer Surface Prep Process
« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2014, 12:23:07 PM »
I have wondered that many times myself - the purpose of multiple use of the same grit. I can only suspect it is related to the machines they use for finishing a ball.

800/1000/2000/2000 is an odd sequence. Balls are usually fairly rough when the are finished, before the final surface is put on them. To start the final at process at 800 grit makes me wonder even more. That would leave the previous surface underneath the 800 grit.

Since the World Beater was probably Columbia's attempt at a Virtual Gravity,
personally I'd start with either 500/2000 or 500/4000 depending on the user's release (revs, tilt, ball speed, etc) and the oil they're bowling on. The other option is the normal sequence of 500/1000/2000 (and  /4000, if so desired).
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Brickguy221

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Re: Question with a Manufacturer Surface Prep Process
« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2014, 10:23:56 PM »
I can't speak for Columbia as I have no idea, but I resurfaced both my Motiv Primal Scream an Thrash Frenzy 2 weeks ago using Motiv's resurface instructions and I  must say, both balls came out perfect and appear to be just as good as they were NIB.
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Re: Question with a Manufacturer Surface Prep Process
« Reply #3 on: October 07, 2014, 04:24:10 AM »

Found this at motivs site that i think explains it :


http://www.motivbowling.com/resources/factory-finish-guide.html

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Re: Question with a Manufacturer Surface Prep Process
« Reply #4 on: October 07, 2014, 07:50:40 AM »
EBI does plenty of research on coverstocks and finishes
they are ever evolving in their process to get a desired result on the lane
i do like the fact that they spell out what they have done to the ball to get OBB

i do look at the steps and grits used, but i fine tune them for me.
most of the new balls i get, i put on the spinner befroe i use them, so i can replicate that surface later.
in todays game, with surfaces being so important, you have to be able to tweak them to compete.
experiment with this, 500/2000 or 1000/2000 is not much different IMO
i have been using 500 + polish with some decent results, gets through the heads, has some teeth under the polish.
little less ball maintenance this way vs just a dull surface which gets lane shine pretty quick

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Re: Question with a Manufacturer Surface Prep Process
« Reply #5 on: October 07, 2014, 11:22:52 AM »

Found this at motivs site that i think explains it :


http://www.motivbowling.com/resources/factory-finish-guide.html


That is the guide I used on my Scream and Frenzy and as mentioned in my post above, they turned out perfect. I am not sure which Motiv Polish they use, but not having any Motiv Polish, I used Valentino's Snake Oil.
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