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Post by rraquinas on Feb 9, 2006 15:22:43 GMT -5
I know that everyone's mind is already in the gutter, but really!!!
How do you clean your equipment. I have heard about the baking technique and know someone who uses it and loves it....I have heard about the heating lamp, the blowdryer, the dishwasher....etc...etc...etc..., but what do you prefer and why?
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Post by MrPerfect on Feb 9, 2006 15:57:44 GMT -5
I know that everyone's mind is already in the gutter, but really!!! How do you clean your equipment. I have heard about the baking technique and know someone who uses it and loves it....I have heard about the heating lamp, the blowdryer, the dishwasher....etc...etc...etc..., but what do you prefer and why? I prefer baking the balls. Set the oven at or around 165 degrees, leave it in for 3 mins., take it out, towel clean off with rubbing alcohol and do the process 2 more times.....Then, if you wish, you can take it to a pro shop and have them buff a rejuvenator on the ball spinner. This will bring back a lot of life (back end finish) back into the ball and carry. I would only recommend doing this once every 1 or 2 months, depending on how much you throw it. The more you use a ball, the more oil it soaks up, so it will need to be done, more often.....JMO |
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Post by screwedntexas on Feb 9, 2006 16:13:57 GMT -5
citrus gel works well and helps draw the oil back out of the ball with out bakeing it. I highly advise against aking your ball in a oven. A dish washer is safer or hot soapy water would be the best way for oil extraction. Your risk of cracking the ball and seperateing the weight block increase when heating a ball in a oven. The core of a ball will not expand and contract as fast as the cover stock will and this is what causes cracked balls and or seperated weightblocks. You can use doc's magic elixer on your ball to prevent oil absorbtion all together or buy a dyno thane ball with the patented and proven soaker cover stock. These balls can absorb and disapate oil and will not die like conventional resin or particle covered balls. But if it were me i would use hot soapy water and soak the balls in that and then use a regular cleaning routine to keep the oil out useing a type of citrus cleaner.
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Post by MrPerfect on Feb 9, 2006 16:28:58 GMT -5
citrus gel works well and helps draw the oil back out of the ball with out bakeing it. I highly advise against aking your ball in a oven. A dish washer is safer or hot soapy water would be the best way for oil extraction. Your risk of cracking the ball and seperateing the weight block increase when heating a ball in a oven. The core of a ball will not expand and contract as fast as the cover stock will and this is what causes cracked balls and or seperated weightblocks. You can use doc's magic elixer on your ball to prevent oil absorbtion all together or buy a dyno thane ball with the patented and proven soaker cover stock. These balls can absorb and disapate oil and will not die like conventional resin or particle covered balls. But if it were me i would use hot soapy water and soak the balls in that and then use a regular cleaning routine to keep the oil out useing a type of citrus cleaner. If you bake the balls at too high of a temperature, that will happen. Lower temps. at short periods of time and doing two or three times, greatly reduces that from happening.... I hear now, that they are making ovens just for this purpose, that is being sold to pro shops now.... Mike Austin I hear, swears by it.... I mean, if you plan on using any new ball 3 years before retiring it, and it won't crack until 4 or 5 years from baking it, if at all... then why not do it?.... |
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Post by screwedntexas on Feb 9, 2006 17:08:29 GMT -5
Well there is a difference in bakeing one in a oven and bakeing one in a rejuvinator. Odds are your oven is out of calibration and might not be at the right temp so its not advised. A rejuvinator how ever is calibrated for this very thing and I dont think the temp gets 160 f* more like 120*f max. If youve had success doing it this way then thats great, but me personaly I would use lower temps.
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Post by Homersan on Feb 9, 2006 21:30:17 GMT -5
Wannabearightie put one of my bowling balls in the easy bake oven at a pro-shop near me and it worked real good...
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Post by wannabearightie on Feb 11, 2006 23:24:59 GMT -5
go homer, go homer, go. as for cleaning the ball, i dont know. but i wil tell you this, if you need the ball to hook more, obviously you never learned how to hook the ball to begin with.DRILL PLASTIC, LEARN HOW TO COME AROUND THE BALL. THEY WILL NEVER STOP HOOKING FROM THERE.
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