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agroves

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Oil saturation
« on: January 17, 2006, 09:07:15 PM »
My teammate, on wednesday nights, has a old HPC.  She used it for drier conditions, I asked her if she polished it up because it appeared to be a high gloss shine.  She said, "No, I've never even cleaned it".  I took it home and soaked it, the first two sessions in the hot water, the ball was so slimy with oil I almost dropped it trying to pull it out of the bucket.  It took a total of 5 times before it stopped feeling slimmy.  

Afterwards, I took the cover to 800 grit.  It starts rolling real early now, just a nice smooth arc reaction.

That was the most oil I've ever seen come out of a ball.  I've soaked quite a few of my own equipment, never once saw that much oil come out.

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Strapper_Squared

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Re: Oil saturation
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2006, 06:41:16 AM »
haha yeah.  Some of the brunswick particles can really bleed off alot of oilly appearing stuff (don't want to say oil because I'm not 100% convinced that's what it actually is!)..  Anyway, my teammate had a ragin inferno.  About once a month he would give it to me to put in my rejuvenator.  I would have to run it two cycles before the stuff stoppped coming out.  It would go from a shiny, slimey surface to looking like it was 600 grit matte finish again.  Ball would hook a ton over the next few weeks, until it was loaded up again...  we went through that most of last season... probably rejuvenated it 7 or 8 times.  Its a temporary fix for "dead" equipment.
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