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Equipment Boards => Brunswick => Topic started by: Sir Bowl-A-Lot on February 10, 2005, 10:53:38 PM

Title: Factory Finish on Absolute Inferno?
Post by: Sir Bowl-A-Lot on February 10, 2005, 10:53:38 PM

Brunswick's website says "Rough Buff"  What is that?  Does the ball come out of the box dull?  Or is it polished?
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Title: Re: Factory Finish on Absolute Inferno?
Post by: smpecjak on February 11, 2005, 08:01:50 AM

I talked to Billy O, from brunswick, about the final finish the "Rough Buff" compound leaves on the balls surface. He said that it falls somewhere between 800 - 1000 grit.  
Sounds similar to the Storm #1 finish?

Title: Re: Factory Finish on Absolute Inferno?
Post by: charlest on February 11, 2005, 08:04:59 AM

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I talked to Billy O, from brunswick, about the final finish the "Rough Buff" compound leaves on the balls surface. He said that it falls somewhere between 800 - 1000 grit.  
Sounds similar to the Storm #1 finish?

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BUT without any hard pressure. Hard pressure for a long time with Storm's #1 will take a ball to 2000+ high gloss polish. Ask Brickguy, as he did that. Caution is advised.

Edited on 2/11/2005 9:49 AM

Title: Re: Factory Finish on Absolute Inferno?
Post by: smpecjak on February 11, 2005, 09:26:25 AM

Was the ball damaged from the compound or was it that the finish wasn't as advertised on the bottle (which reads 800 grit)?

Title: Re: Factory Finish on Absolute Inferno?
Post by: Brickguy221 on February 11, 2005, 11:03:46 AM

If you polish with pressure on the lighter side and for short time periods, will achieve the grit labeled on the bottle. I believe I said 2000 grit once but have since backed off to 1500 grit on the Storm 320-800 Grit Step 1, polish and 2000 grit-plus on the Storm 320-1500 Grit Step 2 polish. That is if you use heavy pressure or burn these polishes in as Charlest says. I Emailed Storm at the time and questioned them about obtaining a higher grit shine than that labeled on the bottle and they said "yes you will get a higher shine if you use hard pressure and longer periods of polishing."

To sum it up, lets say you want your ball sanded and left at 600 grit and you polish with 320-800 and 320-1500 grit polishes you are going to end up with a higher grit higher than 600 on your ball and if you pressure (burn in) these polishes, you are going to have a final grit of way higher than 600 on your ball.

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Edited on 2/11/2005 12:05 PM