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Equipment Boards => Storm => Topic started by: jnmprsct on June 04, 2019, 05:16:07 PM
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Being a particle ball, ok to clean up and refinish on spinner?
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Being a particle ball, ok to clean up and refinish on spinner?
Sure, just because it's a particle ball doesn't mean you can't use spinner to clean or sand it.
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K. Thanks
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Wrong...
Jason from now defunct Visionary bowling gave me instructions for particles.
Hand finish with scotch brite pads only.
The speed of the spinner does bad things to the surface particles. I tried to find the email where he talked about this, but i believe i deleted it.
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I always thought that you should use an abrasive that was softer than the particles. Visionary used soft particles on a lot of their balls, so I always used Scotch-brite pads. Using an abrasive that was harder than the particles would wear the particles down even with the surface and eliminate most of the advantage of using particles.
Some other companies used really hard particles like diamond so most other abrasives like sandpaper and Abralon pads would probably be okay for those, but I will let others who own those type respond.
I used a spinner with Scotch-brite on my Visionary balls but my spinner only has one speed. I did not notice any bad things, but I have slow ball speed so I probably would not notice as much as someone with normal or fast speed, and in fact, it may have helped me. :)
If you do find that email, please post it.
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Wrong...
Jason from now defunct Visionary bowling gave me instructions for particles.
Hand finish with scotch brite pads only.
The speed of the spinner does bad things to the surface particles. I tried to find the email where he talked about this, but i believe i deleted it.
WRONG!
It depends solely on the hardness of the particles used. They can vary from the original Columbia 300 particles which were as soft as a baby's bottom to the Brunswick original particles, which needed Trizact or diamond abrasives to affect the surface AND the particles at all or the diamond dust used in Lane MAsters original particle balls: the New Standard and the Yeah Baby!.
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I always thought that you should use an abrasive that was softer than the particles. Visionary used soft particles on a lot of their balls, so I always used Scotch-brite pads. Using an abrasive that was harder than the particles would wear the particles down even with the surface and eliminate most of the advantage of using particles.
Some other companies used really hard particles like diamond so most other abrasives like sandpaper and Abralon pads would probably be okay for those, but I will let others who own those type respond.
Correct!
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Thank You Charlest. Use scotch brite pads on my spinner? Or by hand?