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    Quote Originally Posted by boomer View Post
    I would just note to double check.

    If you're meaning bowling polishing agents, sure. I'd likely agree because bowling companies should (SHOULD) know not to put waxes like carnauba in them.

    But a lot of people will grab 3M products or other products . . .


    SO - it's worth checking the ingredients to make sure they don't have waxes (typically carnauba) in them. Not really disagreeing with you, just putting a caveat in there.
    Isn't wax basically what used to be in those old Luster King machines?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phonetek View Post
    Isn't wax basically what used to be in those old Luster King machines?
    The Lustre King machines typically used a buffing compound (Standard, Highly Reactive and the Lustre Sheen compound) not a wax per se, there were also some compounds made by other companies like DBA Blue Genie (one of the Genie products though I think it was called green Genie. You never wanted to get that on a resin ball, it killed them dead they wouldn't hook at all and you had to sand it off.).

    Now before the resin era there might have been a actual "wax one" I can't say for sure, I never seen one. (The oldest machine I've seen was one that used 3-4 plastic brushes to brush the old rubber balls clean. that and the old machine that would wash the ball first and then polish it.)
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    Now there was a wax (at least they called a wax, In fact that was the name "Ball Wax") that I liked for Urethane and plastic balls. You couldn't use it on a resin ball though it would plug the pores up.

    And yes you should check any product you use to make sure they don't contain any wax's or silicone's. Now there a lot of 3M products that can be used and a lot of bowling products are made by 3M or their products just rebranded.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bowl1820 View Post
    The Lustre King machines typically used a buffing compound (Standard, Highly Reactive and the Lustre Sheen compound) not a wax per se, there were also some compounds made by other companies like DBA Blue Genie (one of the Genie products though I think it was called green Genie. You never wanted to get that on a resin ball, it killed them dead they wouldn't hook at all and you had to sand it off.).

    Now before the resin era there might have been a actual "wax one" I can't say for sure, I never seen one. (The oldest machine I've seen was one that used 3-4 plastic brushes to brush the old rubber balls clean. that and the old machine that would wash the ball first and then polish it.)
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    Now there was a wax (at least they called a wax, In fact that was the name "Ball Wax") that I liked for Urethane and plastic balls. You couldn't use it on a resin ball though it would plug the pores up.

    And yes you should check any product you use to make sure they don't contain any wax's or silicone's. Now there a lot of 3M products that can be used and a lot of bowling products are made by 3M or their products just rebranded.
    I haven't seen any ball cleaning machines in years. With ball spinners so easy to obtain for anyone serious, it's a pointless thing to have. Especially since they'd end up doing more harm than good with people putting the wrong type of ball in them.

    Now if they made a machine to where you could choose the grit you wanted for a couple bucks it would probably be popular. Problem is people who didn't know how it worked would be putting plastic ball in there expecting a mirror shine and they'd come out dull.

    It's best to leave ball care to the PSO's and people with their own spinners. It eliminates a lot of headaches and makes the PSO's more money.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phonetek View Post

    Now if they made a machine to where you could choose the grit you wanted for a couple bucks it would probably be popular.
    They've had that for years now it's called the Storm Surface Factory.


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