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slap

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Spinner supplies
« on: March 29, 2007, 12:47:40 AM »
I'm taking the plunge and ordering a spinner. I need some help compiling a list of supplies I'll need.

My list so far is...

Stuff I already have...
Clean N Dull
Mega Bite Particle
Rejuvenator

New items
Abralon Disks... 2 each of 360,500,2000,4000
Taxi Contour Abrasion block
Rough Buff
Powerhouse Factory polish
Powerhouse Matte

Does anyone use the foot pedal accessory with their spinner?
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Re: Spinner supplies
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2007, 12:24:34 PM »
Abralon right below. Cheapest price on line. Just type 'abralon' in search.

http://www.supergrit.com/
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Re: Spinner supplies
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2007, 12:26:47 PM »
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Abralon right below. Cheapest price on line. Just type 'abralon' in search.

http://www.supergrit.com/
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I recently bought a spinner as well and thats where I got my Abralon, got the pack of 5 for 500, 1000, 2000, 4000 grit pads.
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Re: Spinner supplies
« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2007, 01:10:48 PM »
Cool. I just placed an order for pads
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Re: Spinner supplies
« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2007, 03:50:31 PM »
Get a spray bottle for keeping the ball wet while sanding.  --  JohnP
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Re: Spinner supplies
« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2007, 12:47:08 PM »
Paper towels, used to use rags but a pain. Use paper and throw them away.

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Re: Spinner supplies
« Reply #6 on: April 01, 2007, 04:29:55 PM »
What I have next to my spinner:

  • Clip-on adjustable light to move around,so I can see what I'm doing.

  • Pen, pencil, notepad, grease pencil

  • glue for inserts

  • Small spray bottles of: water, alcohol, bowling ball cleaner, acetone. (Large bottles of the above, either above or below the spinner.)

  • Supply of finger and thumb inserts

  • 1/8" flat blade screwdriver for putting in tape and taking out inserts

  • Ball cups for holding balls.

  • Unoccupied table/shelves to the left and right of the spinner for holding items I am currently working on or with.

  • Water bucket (2 quart size) for rinsing out & soaking Abralon pads.

  • Columbia's CPR

  • Doc's Magic Elixir




Towels:

  • A roll of paper towels suspended from the ceiling for quick and easy access.

  • Clean soft terry cloth and Micro-fiber cloths for applying and buffing

  • Terry cloth facecloths for applying cleaner, polishes, compounds, abrasive liquid.

  • Cheap towels for wiping everything

  • Old undershirts and old toothbrushes for cleaning out finger, weight and thumb holes after sanding or polishing a ball.

  • sponges for backing sandpaper and for general cleaning.




Cleaners:

  • Track's Clean and Dull and Clean and Tacky

  • Legends cleaner

  • Brunswick Remove-all

  • Ultimate's Black Magic Rejuvenator

  • Neo-Tac's Liquid Nitro

  • Denatured ehtyl alcohol

  • Acetone

  • Water



Polishes:

  • Legends Factpry finish polish

  • Track's Magic Shine

  • Brunswick's High Gloss Polish

  • Track's Delayed Reaction

  • Neo-Tac's Control-It

  • Ultimate's Black Magic Polish

  • Neo-Tac's Renew-it

  • Squeaky Clean's polishes: 1000 grit, 2000 grit, 3000 grit (these are OLD.)



Abrasive Liquids (+ polish):

  • Storm's Xtra Shine (in quart and 4 oz)

  • Track's Clean and Sheen (1000 grit, compound polish)

  • Track's Clean and Smooth (1500 grit)

  • Ebonite's Matte Finish (1200 grit)

  • Ebonite's Sand Blaster (400 grit)

  • 3M's Fine Cut Compound polish (1500 grit)

  • 3M Finesse-It II

  • Brunswick's Rough Buff (compound polish)

  • Neo-Tac's Lquid Sandpaper

  • Ultimate's Quick Cut and polish



Abrasives:

  • Silicon Carbide wet/dry sandpaper (220 grit - 2000 grit)

  • Abralon pads (1000, 2000 and 4000 grit)

  • Scotch-Brite nylon pads: maroon (320), green (600), light grey (800), blue (1000), white (1500)

  • Sponge/Scotch-Brite combination with green and blue nylon pads. The pad is attached to a sponge.

  • Trizact pads (green, blue, orange and white)

  • CABs for Trizact and for everything else.




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Edited on 4/6/2007 6:56 PM
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FBM357

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Re: Spinner supplies
« Reply #7 on: April 01, 2007, 04:39:43 PM »
Jeff,  Where's the drill press?

Thought I was bad until I read this!!!  There's hope for me after all... *LOL*

quote:
What I have next to my spinner:

  • Clip-on adjustable light to move around,so I can see what I'm doing.

  • Pen, pencil, notepad, grease pencil

  • glue for inserts

  • Small spray bottles of: water, alcohol, bowling ball cleaner, acetone. (Large bottles of the above, either above or below the spinner.)

  • Supply of finger and thumb inserts

  • 1/8" flat blade screwdriver for putting in tape and taking out inserts

  • Ball cups for holding balls.

  • Unoccupied table/shelves to the left and right of the spinner for holding items I am currently working on or with.

  • Water bucket (2 quart size) for rinsing out & soaking Abralon pads.

  • Columbia's CPR

  • Doc's Magic Elixir




Towels:

  • A roll of paper towels suspended from the ceiling for qucik and easy access.

  • Clean soft terry cloth and Micro-fiber cloths for applying and buffing

  • Terry cloth facecloths for applying cleaner, polishes, compounds, abrasive liquid.

  • Cheap towels for wiping everything

  • Old undershirts and old toothbrushes for cleaning out finger, weight and thumb holes after sanding or polishing a ball.

  • sponges for backing sandpaper and for general cleaning.




Cleaners:

  • Track's Clean and Dull and Clean and Tacky

  • Legends cleaner

  • Brunswick Remove-all

  • Ultimate's Black Magic Rejuvenator

  • Neo-Tac's Liquid Nitro

  • Denatured ehtyl alcohol

  • Acetone

  • Water



Polishes:

  • Legends Factpry finish polish

  • Track's Magic Shine

  • Brunswick's High Gloss Polish

  • Track's Delayed Reaction

  • Neo-Tac's Control-It

  • Ultimate's Black Magic Polish

  • Neo-Tac's Renew-it

  • Squeaky Clean's polishes: 1000 grit, 2000 grit, 3000 grit (these are OLD.)



Abrasive Liquids (+ polish):

  • Storm's Xtra Shine (in quart and 4 oz)

  • Track's Clean and Sheen (1000 grit, compound polish)

  • Track's Clean and Smooth (1500 grit)

  • Ebonite's Matte FInish (1200 grit)

  • Ebonite's Sand Blaster (400 grit)

  • 3M's Fine Cut Compound polish (1500 grit)

  • 3M Finesse-It II

  • Brunswick's Rough Buff (compound polish)

  • Neo-Tac's Lquid Sandpaper

  • Ultimate's Quick Cut and polish



Abrasives:

  • Silicon Carbide wet/dry sandpaper (220 grit - 2000 grit)

  • Abralon pads (1000, 2000 and 4000 grit)

  • Scotch-Brite nylon pads: maroon (320), green (600), light grey (800), blue (1000), white (1500)

  • Sponge/Scotch-Brite combination with green and blue nylon pads. The pad is attached to a sponge.

  • Trizact pads (green, blue, orange and white)

  • CABs for Trizact and for everything else.




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slap

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Re: Spinner supplies
« Reply #8 on: April 01, 2007, 05:50:47 PM »
That's quite a list Charlest, thanks for posting it. I ordered enough stuff to get me started, I'm sure I'll get additional items as I get more experience with the spinner. It should arrive this weeks so I'm pretty excited.
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Black Widow
Toxic
Vibe (blue)
Columbia Blue Dot
Weapon of Mass Bias
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charlest

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Re: Spinner supplies
« Reply #9 on: April 04, 2007, 04:50:02 PM »
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Jeff,  Where's the drill press?

Thought I was bad until I read this!!!  There's hope for me after all... *LOL*


You won't get any argument from me. You are Baaaaaad!

Drill press? Do I look like an idiot? Wait, don't answer that.
I do enough for friends now for free. I can just see my drilling balls and their telling me the thumb isn't quite right. I'd hand them a piece of 220 grit sandpaper and tell them, "Don't go away mad; just go away."
How the drillers put up with such customers, I'll never understand.
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Re: Spinner supplies
« Reply #10 on: April 06, 2007, 11:57:13 AM »
Charlest, great list but what about us people with the thin wallets? Can you cut the list down to the bare minimums that we may need? i.e. do we need both, Scotchbrite and Abralon? How long does the Abralon last and can we get away the the 1/3 hp vs the 1/2 hp motor since I'm not a pro shop and the spinner won't get a ton of use? Do you need to replace the grips only after sanding? Thanks in advance.

One thing that you may have left out of your list is an 18 gallon tub that the spinner sits in.

quote:
What I have next to my spinner:

  • Clip-on adjustable light to move around,so I can see what I'm doing.

  • Pen, pencil, notepad, grease pencil

  • glue for inserts

  • Small spray bottles of: water, alcohol, bowling ball cleaner, acetone. (Large bottles of the above, either above or below the spinner.)

  • Supply of finger and thumb inserts

  • 1/8" flat blade screwdriver for putting in tape and taking out inserts

  • Ball cups for holding balls.

  • Unoccupied table/shelves to the left and right of the spinner for holding items I am currently working on or with.

  • Water bucket (2 quart size) for rinsing out & soaking Abralon pads.

  • Columbia's CPR

  • Doc's Magic Elixir




Towels:

  • A roll of paper towels suspended from the ceiling for qucik and easy access.

  • Clean soft terry cloth and Micro-fiber cloths for applying and buffing

  • Terry cloth facecloths for applying cleaner, polishes, compounds, abrasive liquid.

  • Cheap towels for wiping everything

  • Old undershirts and old toothbrushes for cleaning out finger, weight and thumb holes after sanding or polishing a ball.

  • sponges for backing sandpaper and for general cleaning.




Cleaners:

  • Track's Clean and Dull and Clean and Tacky

  • Legends cleaner

  • Brunswick Remove-all

  • Ultimate's Black Magic Rejuvenator

  • Neo-Tac's Liquid Nitro

  • Denatured ehtyl alcohol

  • Acetone

  • Water



Polishes:

  • Legends Factpry finish polish

  • Track's Magic Shine

  • Brunswick's High Gloss Polish

  • Track's Delayed Reaction

  • Neo-Tac's Control-It

  • Ultimate's Black Magic Polish

  • Neo-Tac's Renew-it

  • Squeaky Clean's polishes: 1000 grit, 2000 grit, 3000 grit (these are OLD.)



Abrasive Liquids (+ polish):

  • Storm's Xtra Shine (in quart and 4 oz)

  • Track's Clean and Sheen (1000 grit, compound polish)

  • Track's Clean and Smooth (1500 grit)

  • Ebonite's Matte FInish (1200 grit)

  • Ebonite's Sand Blaster (400 grit)

  • 3M's Fine Cut Compound polish (1500 grit)

  • 3M Finesse-It II

  • Brunswick's Rough Buff (compound polish)

  • Neo-Tac's Lquid Sandpaper

  • Ultimate's Quick Cut and polish



Abrasives:

  • Silicon Carbide wet/dry sandpaper (220 grit - 2000 grit)

  • Abralon pads (1000, 2000 and 4000 grit)

  • Scotch-Brite nylon pads: maroon (320), green (600), light grey (800), blue (1000), white (1500)

  • Sponge/Scotch-Brite combination with green and blue nylon pads. The pad is attached to a sponge.

  • Trizact pads (green, blue, orange and white)

  • CABs for Trizact and for everything else.




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charlest

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Re: Spinner supplies
« Reply #11 on: April 06, 2007, 06:55:38 PM »
quote:
Charlest, great list but what about us people with the thin wallets? Can you cut the list down to the bare minimums that we may need? i.e. do we need both, Scotchbrite and Abralon? How long does the Abralon last and can we get away the the 1/3 hp vs the 1/2 hp motor since I'm not a pro shop and the spinner won't get a ton of use? Do you need to replace the grips only after sanding? Thanks in advance.

One thing that you may have left out of your list is an 18 gallon tub that the spinner sits in.


Sorry I left that out; it does sit in one. It's not obvious,so when I went down to look at it (the PC is on the 1st floor; bowling "pit" is next to the workshop in the basement.), I forgot to "see" that. ALso did not mention the table it sits on.

Dear Hogsbreath,

My list is, of course, not what's required. It's what I have gathered and tried over the 5 years since I started "playing" with this stuff. Obviously the Squeaky CLean is used once eveyr 3 years, if so inclined.

You need only one abrasive-free polish and only one polish with abrasive.

Scotch-Brite and Abralon can be used for different purposes, as well as the wet/dry sandpaper. Abralon iS EXPENSIVE; so I use that less.  Not everyone uses Sand Blaster and Clean and Smooth. Etc.,etc., etc.

I am NOT a pro shop; I only have a 1/3 Hp Vertex (it's all they had when I got mine!) As time went along, I tried or felt the impulse to try different products. Heck, I only got Legends cleaner and polish because I bought (a few free) so many Legends balls. Got enough of both for 2+ years minimum.

I find Abralon pads last 2 - 8 uses/balls, depending on how hard you use them. I cannot possibly understand how Ebonite can get 50+ uses in the factory.

Grip do not have to be replaced after sanding. Often, but not always, I will remove them when I do a TOTAL resurfacing. Mostly, sinc emine are glued at only 2 small spots, after I am totally finished, I'll take an old toothbrush and some alcohol, pull the insert away from the hole's side and clean that area. Grips should be glued just below the level of the hole. If they're above, sanding will hardly hurt them as they mostly flex.  

OK I'll edit the list somewhat to eliminate less used and some non-essential products:

Towels:

  • A roll of paper towels

  • Clean soft terry cloth and Micro-fiber cloths

  • Terry cloth facecloths

  • Old undershirts and old toothbrushes for cleaning out finger, weight and thumb holes after sanding or polishing a ball.

  • sponges for backing sandpaper and for general cleaning.




Cleaners:

  • Track's Clean and Dull (the best deep cleaner)

  • Legends cleaner (the best surface cleaner)

  • Acetone

  • Water



Polishes:

  • Brunswick's High Gloss Polish

  • Track's Delayed Reaction



Abrasive Liquids (+ polish):

  • Storm's Xtra Shine (in quart and 4 oz)

  • Track's Clean and Sheen (1000 grit, compound polish)

  • Ebonite's Matte Finish (1200 grit)

  • 3M's Fine Cut Compound polish (1500 grit)



Abrasives:

  • Silicon Carbide wet/dry sandpaper (220 grit - 2000 grit)

  • Abralon 4000 grit (only because there is no other 4000 grit abrasive.)

  • Scotch-Brite nylon pads: maroon (320), green (600), light grey (800), blue (1000), white (1500)

  • Trizact pads (green, blue, orange and white) & Trizact CAB





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Re: Spinner supplies
« Reply #12 on: April 06, 2007, 09:40:51 PM »
wheres the best place to get abralon pads? buddies has them but that price seems way to high

thanks

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Hogsharley

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Re: Spinner supplies
« Reply #13 on: April 06, 2007, 11:25:33 PM »
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wheres the best place to get abralon pads? buddies has them but that price seems way to high


Everyone on BR swears by Supergrit. http://www.supergrit.com/

Charlest, thanks for the reply. The info will come in handy when compiling the needed materials.
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Re: Spinner supplies
« Reply #14 on: April 06, 2007, 11:29:31 PM »
i got mine  from www.supergrit.com   there like 3.50 a piece or something
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