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How To Properly Maintain Your Bowling Ball

Learning how to properly maintain your bowling ball is fairly easy if you give a little thought to these options:

  • Pro Shop Services

  • Personal Use of Cleaners & Polishes


Anyone can learn how to properly maintain your bowling ball by use of the services offered by local pro shops. Pro shops are equipped with high speed ball spinners, varying grits of Abralon sanding pads and with cleaners and polishes which allow for you to have the surface of your bowling ball prepared in any manner which best matches to your local lane conditions. The screening process on the high-speed spinner enables the pro shop operator to clean the oil and dirt from the coverstock of the bowling ball. Also, screening the coverstock of your bowling ball will texture the ball surface to provide the desired amount of gripping power on the lane. The screening process is versatile enough to allow for a heavy grit texture to be applied to the ball surface followed by a finer grit surface as to temper the "bite" on the lane. Also, polish may be applied after the screening process is complete.
Polishing compounds applied after screening the ball surface will increase the ball skid length but will enable the ball to react predictably when the ball reaches the back end of the lane due to the pre-planned amount of texture applied on the coverstock during the screening process. Skill in planning is required to match the grit of screening pads with the right amount of polish on the ball surface to control the ball skid length and still allow for a good back-end ball reaction. It is always a good idea to make sure you communicate your needs with the pro shop carefully before simply dropping off your ball and telling the operator to clean and polish the bowling ball. There is a certain science involved in ball surface preparation strategies and if you wish to improve your bowling performances, preparing your equipment properly to match with the lane conditions is a big part of the overall challenge.
Another feature many pro shops offer is a machine which virtually bakes the oil from the coverstock pores of bowling balls. This machine will clear saturated oil absorbed and stored in the ball coverstock after many games of use. Bowling balls then can be screened on the spinner to add any desired surface texture or grit finish. Normally, this bake process is not needed nearly as frequently as is a general surface preparation provided by use of ball spinners, pads, and polishing
agents.

In fact, bowlingball.com offers ball spinners for sale. Anyone wishing to own their own high-speed Ball Spinner, grit pads, polishes, and any other tools or accessories needed to maintain their bowling ball surfaces can do so by purchasing this equipment right here at our site. Learn to keep your bowling ball surfaces prepared precisely the way you wish at home with little effort by learning viable resurfacing techniques.
Cleaning bowling balls yourself is easier now than ever. Simply purchasing personal squeeze bottles available in pro shops, or very inexpensively here at our site, will provide the right agents to clean and to polish your ball surface by hand. We recommend purchasing a microfiber towel, a liquid ball cleaner and polishes so you can keep the surface of your ball clean and ready for use the next time you are on the lanes. Microfiber towels are great for wiping away lane oil off of your ball surface during your session on the lanes because they absorb seven times the amount of moisture as do linen towels and they assist in cleaning your ball of dirt or possible rubber markings from the pit cushions in the pinsetters or from the ball return units, and for applying cleaners and polishes by hand.
It is recommended to clean the surface of your ball immediately after bowling when the pores in the coverstock of the ball are open due to the friction generated by bowling. There are, however, liquid cleaning agents approved for use by U.S.B.C. (United States Bowling Congress) during competition. You now have the option of cleaning your ball with a towel and a cleaner while you are bowling.


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