What a difference taking care of your equipment makes!

[e-tank]

I gave my friends lucid and modern marvel a de oiling + resurfacing this past weekend as well as my HRR and too reckless yesterday.

For some background info, I de oiled his balls + my too reckless late feb early march (Got hrr used but like new).

I bowl approximately twice as many games as he does on a weekly basis and wipe off my ball between shots + clean it after a session where as he does none of that

So i sanded all balls to 360 grit then put them in my diy revivor oven. The results?

Lucid and marvel took a good 2- 2.5 hours combined to stop sweating

HRR and too reckless took 40 min(each got 2 10 min sessions) and no sweating was had so i stopped

I expected his to sweat like pigs but i was really surprised that nothing came out of mine

Oh well at least my babys got a resurface out it

[swingset]

I've had the same experience. I wipe all mine off in between shots and clean them at the end of the night, and I've sanded & sweat several only to have nothing come out of them. Meanwhile I've refinished a couple that other people throw and don't do this to and they seep oil for a good long while.

[DLP]

Would you recommend then that I request that my Fringe get deep-cleaned/resurfaced while in the shop? I don't know how old it is, if it was cleaned properly, when it was last deep cleaned, etc....

[e-tank]

I deep clean/resurface mine every 100 games or so. I havent used mine yet but i know for my friends balls it made a huge difference in reaction. When i get used balls the first thing i do is deep clean and resurface them.

[Jaescrub]

My teammate that I gave the ball I won to dropped off his hammer viscous to get a real fit to his hands and cleaned and all that its never been done was a used ball he got a long long time ago. My pro shop guy said it baked all week just would not stop it looks great now others then the 4+ fills and re drills it had before he got it.

[billf]

Donna, yes!

[got_a_300]

Donna, yes!

I agree with bill, Donna I'd have that ball deep
cleaned and re-surfaced.

I just bought a ball one day last week with only
somewhere around 30 games or so on it but you
can bet I'll be doing a plug job on it and then I'll
do a deep clean and a full re-surface on it also.

[dnhoffman]

First thing I'd do With a used ball Donna.

[DLP]

Well she's clean and shiny now Thanks for the advice.

Got a small bottle of Tac Up in my bag that the pro threw in discounted since I started asking him about care and feeding

Had read up on this stuff previously and a lot of reviews said it wasn't very good for getting ball return scuff marks off. I didn't have any problems.

Btw, my pro has the coolest little print out from Storm that is like a sheet to keep track of how many games you play and their recommended cleaning schedule. Anyone know where I can track this down?

[billf]

I have a copy. Email me and I will send it to you. It's in .pdf form
bowlerz_score@yahoo.com