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ucumin2

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home made cleaners?
« on: September 22, 2008, 12:23:20 PM »
I remember awhile back this topic was posted about simple green alcohol and someone said something about cleaner from dollor store. How did you guys mix them ?
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Re: home made cleaners?
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2008, 08:29:50 PM »
I use a mixture of 50% concentrated orange degreaser (Zep, Orange Windex, etc.) and 50% isopropyl alcohol. Works great, smells OK.
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« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2008, 08:31:25 PM »
from what i've done and have heard is u use 3 equal parts of simple green/rubbing alcohol/water.
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« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2008, 08:37:24 PM »
That's what I thought but did that today with a degreaser and bottle didn't feel right. Bottle went from soft 2 hard. Any ideas why ?
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« Reply #4 on: September 22, 2008, 08:44:55 PM »
be very careful when mixing chemicals. Degreasers have a nasty habit of reacting with alcohol. You can easily make harmful fumes.

The only problem with making your own cleaner, is that USBC can disqualify you from competition if another bowling raises questions.

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« Reply #5 on: September 22, 2008, 08:48:18 PM »
i've done a couple of differnt things but nothing really turned out to clean as good as what u can buy.
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« Reply #6 on: September 22, 2008, 08:52:32 PM »
Not worried about whole usbc. Just trying 2 find a cleaner that does what is supposed 2 do. I've tryed many so called cleaners and get no results. Still have belt marks all over the ball. Have run out of options and trying this approach
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Re: home made cleaners?
« Reply #7 on: September 22, 2008, 08:56:44 PM »
i use 50% simple green and 50% water. this combo works great and if the stains are real tough i'll use simple green at full strength. i can get a gallon of simple green for about $6 and this will make a lot of ball cleaner for penny's per use. it works as good if not better than bowling ball cleaner and costs a lot less.
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« Reply #8 on: September 22, 2008, 09:27:22 PM »
I have also used Simple Green and water 50/50 for years. It's also USBC approved during play.

http://www.bowl.com/specs/ballCleaner.aspx#solvents


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Re: home made cleaners?
« Reply #9 on: September 23, 2008, 01:46:52 AM »
so am I reading this correctly, you can apply a wet cleaner to your equipment(balls)during bowling now?? as long as it does not change the surface grit of the ball and you can do that before and after each game or is it the set?? so does any one know if lane masters/legends ball cleaner is usable during bowling?? the site does not say anything about this particular product..  thankss slashrr69
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« Reply #10 on: September 23, 2008, 01:48:18 AM »
I've been using a mixture of 40% simple green, 40% isopropyl alcohol (the 99% type), and 20% water for a couple of years now.  This has worked very well for me.  Just recently, based on comments here on BallReviews, I ordered a couple of bottles of Remedy Rx, and I have to say that not only does it do a better job of cleaning (about the same as Clean and Dull), but more importantly it also leaves the ball with a very long lasting tacky feeling.  Even at the end of a 3 game set, only wiping the ball off with a microfiber towel, the ball still feels tacky.  Great stuff.  I'm going to keep using the Remedy, with an occassional deep cleaning with Clean and Dull.
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« Reply #11 on: September 23, 2008, 01:50:11 AM »
I've been using a mixture of 40% simple green, 40% isopropyl alcohol (the 99% type), and 20% water for a couple of years now.  This has worked very well for me.  Just recently, based on comments here on BallReviews, I ordered a couple of bottles of Remedy Rx, and I have to say that not only does it do a better job of cleaning (about the same as Clean and Dull), but more importantly it also leaves the ball with a very long lasting tacky feeling.  Even at the end of a 3 game set, only wiping the ball off with a microfiber towel, the ball still feels tacky.  Great stuff.  I'm going to keep using the Remedy, with an occassional deep cleaning with Clean and Dull.
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« Reply #12 on: September 23, 2008, 02:05:40 AM »
tried around with isopropyl alcohol etc and also found that the buyable stuff can not be copied.
But that doesn't mean one couldn't come up with a good cleaner.

I found that a mixture of Isopropyl alcohol with water and soap is working well (I tried that)... one might want to add degrease but I confirm the danger of a chemical reaction (I am studying chemistry and am right now writing my thesis )
This could result in very different products including harmful fumes and gases...
So... use a normal soap... like dishcleaner in water and isoprop alcohol als the other part...

The best oil solvent is cyclohexane... but I do not know how rubber inserts and superglue will react ... and cyclohexane is classified "harmful" ... so not the best stuff to mess around with... not dangerous but also not that nice....

Will look up my old formulation and post it...
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« Reply #13 on: September 23, 2008, 08:16:52 AM »
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so am I reading this correctly, you can apply a wet cleaner to your equipment(balls)during bowling now??


Not "now". There were no changes to any rules about this. You always could use approved cleaners during bowling.

Any tournament can have special rules preventing this. In fact, the USBC Nationals has such a rule. Nothing but a dry towel can touch your ball once bowlign has started.

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as long as it does not change the surface grit of the ball and you can do that before and after each game or is it the set??


from frame to frame if you like, as long as it's on the list approved for use "DURING Competition".

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so does any one know if lane masters/legends ball cleaner is usable during bowling?? the site does not say anything about this particular product..  thankss slashrr69


If it's not on the list for use DURING COMPETITION, then you cannot use it during competition. You can use Lanemasters cleaner before or after, because it is NOT on the list "Not Acceptable At Any Time".

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