Ebonite Mission X Ball

[ken74012]

I recently purchased a Mission X ball and was very pleased with it for about 2 weeks. I cleaned it after every time used. It started to stop hooking so I took the ball in to be put in a ball cleaner and it seems to have made the ball worse.

Any ideas for making the ball come back to what I had a few weeks ago?

[Drano]

Try having it surfaced back to box finish at your pro shop. Best suggestion I can come up with not knowing what happened, it sounds like you probably threw it for a bit and it soaked up a bit of oil, making it shinier, then you used the ball cleaner, which likely made it even more shiny. Just have the pro shop dull it up a bit.

Educated guess.

[bowl1820]

"put in a ball cleaner" Well first off those machines (the lustre king type machines) at the lanes are not ball cleaners! They are polishers. In fact if you use one, you should clean the ball first.

Because it can grind the dirt and grime more into the cover. I've seen many balls put in with those black belt marks and come out with them still there and glossed over.

Those machines have a block of a buffing compound in them. You have to watch if they put the wrong brand block in, it can kill a balls reaction totally till you get it sanded off. That happened here once, when they got the wrong one.

[Corvault]

I know a fellow that has been using the Mission X for quite a while and is a very good bowler, seems to always get great reaction as well. There are several things that you can do to get that OOB reaction back, just got to do some research. My best suggestion would be to take it to your pro-shop guy and explain your issue and see what he can do. My final point is that unless you've just let oil soak into the coverstock without cleaning it for a long time (and I sort of doubt two weeks is enough time to do very much damage,) then I imagine you can get your ball back to where it needs to be. I'm by no means an old pro or even very experienced, just my two cents.

[ken74012]

I appreciate the advice. I took the ball and he put it in a polisher at the pro shop. after that the ball would still not perform like it did before.. I took a scuff and roughed up the ball and tried it out. it had a tremendous back end. A little to much for my game. I took it to the proshop again and had him polish it back to the 1500 that I got it. Yesterday the ball is back to where I liked it before.

Also in those two weeks i was bowling with the ball, I did clean it after every use. I haven't tried it in league play but that is coming up tomorrow. Will post scores again. Again thanks for the advice.

[ken74012]

Well, I have tried everything with this ball to get some kind of reaction when I got the ball. I went to the pro shop driller and he cleaned it and redid the original surface on it. It still didn't have the original reaction when I first bought it.

I took it to the pro shop and put it for sale. Bought a new DV8 hell raiser revenge today and will throw it tomorrow and see how it does in heavy oil.

More to come later.

[striker12]

well remember u have to find the correct surface that works best for you for me i got my freeze and i took it from its top abalon and put it down 1 like i do on all my balls and it gives me the move i want cause when the ball is out of the box it will obsorbe oil much faster unless u change it right then then it obsorbes less which gives u that decent hook but dont put factory finish polish on it just a nice galze polish it willgive it that slidand still have a strong backend

[MFein]

Once you put it in the machine, you ruined it. Period. It's just from the experience I've had with that machine. Also, I wasn't too much of a huge fan of Ebonite's stuff. My favorite ball was the Total NV which I had for 2 years. Otherwise, I tried the Gamebreaker and that ball was a disaster for me. Their stuff also eats oil like crazy. I haven't tried their newer stuff lately, but the Mission series I heard was a huge success. My friend Billy throws the Mission X and he LOVES it. He's the only one around here with one. I think it was a good choice to go to DV8 though because they've been having a lot of success lately and I mean to the point where you see their stuff more than Storm. Storm's a very popular company where I live. I'm not too sure why, but they've really hit it off around here and I'm seeing the Hell Raiser and Misfit very often now.