How to Tame a Virtual Gravity, nano pearl on league night.

[Mike White]

Well today most consider putting your ball in the luster king the worst thing you could do.

Because it packs the pores full (Especially if they put the wrong compound block in, I seen that happen. At this one house I was at they tried this new compound block in the machine and all the balls that got polished in it totally quit working. You couldn't make it hook at all and they had to sand the balls to get the stuff off the cover.).

And a lot of people think it's a cleaning machine (it's not, it's polisher) and it justs grind the dirt/oil into the cover (That's why you should clean the ball first bif you do use it)

I think their okay if you want to shine up your plastic ball and maybe a urethane ball (like the Black U-dot).

Yesterday a guy came in to the shop and requested I polish the ball, and for the first time ever, I suggested he use the luster king instead.

Of course what he brought in was an old Brunswick Black Beauty.

[sprocket]

I honestly don't even know if the lanes had been oiled on that end of the house. It looked like everybody elses ball was grabbing the lane much earlier than mine. It was just a day when by accident all the pieces fell into place. It probably wasn't a good idea to use a Luster King on a urethane ball either. They are still porous unlike plastic and no doubt I clogged the pores. Isn't a resin ball STILL a urethane ball just with additives? Isn't the porosity of the cover stocks basically the same?

[bowl1820]

They are still porous unlike plastic and no doubt I clogged the pores. Isn't a resin ball STILL a urethane ball just with additives? Isn't the porosity of the cover stocks basically the same?

Plastic/Urethane/resin are all porous, but to different degrees and Plastic and Urethane are not designed to absorb oil like resin ball does. So plugging pores on them isn't a big problem.

The pores on resin are a lot different and designed to draw oil away from the surface. If they are clogged then the oil can't be drew away, that's also why they usually sand a ball before deep cleaning. If the pores have gotten clogged then the oil is trapped inside.

Heres a picture of the ball surface where you can see the difference:



This is a older article , but you can see a little more here:

Ball Surface 101
http://bowlingknowledge.info/images/...urface_101.pdf