Are Scotch-Brite pads good for ball resurfacing?

[Hammer]

There is all kinds of sand paper out there for sanding just about anything. What would you say are the best for bowling ball resurfacing by hand? Anyone use Scotch-Brite pads for resurfacing?

[Phonetek]

There is all kinds of sand paper out there for sanding just about anything. What would you say are the best for bowling ball resurfacing by hand? Anyone use Scotch-Brite pads for resurfacing?

Changing the surface or completely Resurfacing? When you say by hand do you mean without a spinner?

[Hammer]

Changing the surface or completely Resurfacing? When you say by hand do you mean without a spinner?

By hand I mean manually with no spinner. As far as changing the surface I mean making the surface either with more bite or less bite. More bite would be using anywhere from 400 grit to 800. Less bite would be using 1000 to 5000 grit. So I mean changing the surface by hand and using grits that go from 400 to 5000. So what are the good brands of sandpaper for resurfacing bowling balls? I am sure a lot of people here do their own resurfacing. So what brand seems to be the best for resurfacing?

[boatman37]

I do my own but use CTD pads but I do have a pdf somewhere that 'compares' different surfaces and what to use and pretty sure it lists scotchbrite pads on the list. Will have to look. But it doesn't mention anything about sandpaper. I think this document was from Storm but not sure.

As far as what to use...I think it's ok to use whatever you want as long as you are consistent with it. I think sandpaper might be a little 'rough' but can't say for sure.

[J Anderson]

By hand I mean manually with no spinner. As far as changing the surface I mean making the surface either with more bite or less bite. More bite would be using anywhere from 400 grit to 800. Less bite would be using 1000 to 5000 grit. So I mean changing the surface by hand and using grits that go from 400 to 5000. So what are the good brands of sandpaper for resurfacing bowling balls? I am sure a lot of people here do their own resurfacing. So what brand seems to be the best for resurfacing?

For changing the surface texture on a bowling ball, Abralon, Siaair, and CTD ( Creating The Difference ) are the brands of sanding pads most often talked about. I happen to be very lazy about changing or even maintaining the surfaces of my bowling balls. I just try to figure out what the lane is letting me do and play what's in my bag. That said Abralon and Siaair have different standards so you need a chart to figure out which grit Siaair pad is equivalent to a given grit Abralon pad. Scotch-Brite goes by color so you need to know what grit the different colors correspond to. I think that Scotch-Brite pads tend to run much coarser than the others listed.
I have also heard that Siaair pads last longer than Abralon ones.

[boatman37]

Yeah I have also heard that Abralon get used up the quickest and CTD last the longest. When I do mine I do 4 sides of the ball and hit 7 passes up and down (I use a spinner). I tend to get about 3-4 uses out of a pad before they start to feel smoother across my fingertips