How To Bring Your Bowling Ball Back To Life
bowlingball.com Originally Posted: 08/24/2010; Updated On: 06/22/2024
Learning how to bring your bowling ball back to life is fairly easy. First, one recommended option is to use the services of your local pro shop who will discuss with you the various techniques on how to bring your bowling ball back to life. Pro shops are equipped with high speed bowling ball spinners and varying grits of Abralon pads and with polishes which allow for the surface of your bowling ball to be screened with any given texture or grit of pad to prepare for the particular lane conditions you most frequently encounter and to restore the ball surface to very near new condition.
The process of using a bowling ball spinner allows for the ball to first have the coverstock surface screened with a heavy grit pad with a water application to open the pores of the ball and remove most of the oil from the ball. Because the ball spins at a rapid rate and may be re-positioned on the spinner as needed, the pro shop operator uses a screening process which evenly applies pressure to all parts of the ball surface thereby reducing or removing minor scratches incurred from use on the lanes. After using a dull pad with a heavy texture application to the ball surface, the ball may next be screened with a finer pad or series of pads to smooth the surface and more closely match the desired finish you seek for your next trip to the lanes.
The pro shops also provide polishing compounds so if you need to add polish after screening of the bowling ball surface, it can be easily accomplished.
Polishes restore the shiny appearance to the bowling ball surface and enhance ball skid when the ball is delivered down the lane. Polishes are available in varying grit densities and have the capabilities of not only shining the ball to increase skid but to also ensure the ball creates a reasonable degree of friction on the lane surface and prevents an over-skid reaction.
Make sure you communicate with the pro shop which final surface finish you desire before leaving the bowling ball for maintenance. Because of the wide range of surface preparation strategies available, it is your responsibility to communicate clearly the desired outcome you seek.
Pyramid Bowling offers a
Phoenix Personal Ball Revivor which is a device that heats your bowling ball at a safe temperature to remove dirt and oil that has been absorbed into the coverstock. Due to the overall low amount of oil that a ball absorbs in a normal amount of games, the revivor may not extract oil each and every time you use it. This is completely normal - although oil may not appear on the surface of the bowling ball, rest assured the Phoenix is working. Balls with a higher amount of games on them with more oil in the coverstock, will extract oil at a higher rate.
Normally, this bake process is not needed nearly as frequently as is a general surface preparation provided by the ball spinners, pads, and polishing agents in the pro shop. There is something else you should know, however, and that is that
bowlingball.com offers bowling ball spinners for sale. Anyone wishing to own their own spinner, grit pads, polishes, and any other tools to maintain their bowling ball surfaces at home can do so with little effort by learning a few, viable resurfacing techniques and by purchasing all the necessary products right here at our site.
Cleaning bowling balls yourself is easier now than ever. 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 by hand. We recommend purchasing one of our microfiber towels, a liquid ball cleaner, and polishes so you can keep the surface of your ball clean regularly.
The microfiber towels are great for wiping away lane oil off of your ball surface during your session on the lanes, for cleaning your ball after possible rubber markings from the pit cushions in the pinsetters or from the ball return units, and for applying cleaners and polishes by hand.
When cleaning the surface of your ball by hand, it is recommended to do so immediately after bowling when the pores in the coverstock of the ball are open due to the friction generated by bowling.
Self-cleaning your bowling ball surface and perhaps even adding some polish to the surface after you complete your session on the lanes will buy you time before the need in getting back to the pro shop and using the high-speed spinner process occurs. Re-screening the surface of your bowling ball on the high speed ball spinner to restore your ball surface and best match to the lane conditions is always the best course of action, however. Hope these tips help?
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