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tfav44

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cleaning my twisted fury questions
« on: March 22, 2008, 10:27:01 AM »
I have been cleaning my ball with lysol disinfecting  cleaning wipes after each set, is that ok or will it hurt the cover? feedback please.
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Re: cleaning my twisted fury questions
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2008, 06:54:29 PM »
I don't think they are strong enough. You need something that can break down the oil. The least expensive option is 50/50 Simple Green and water. I've used for years. Just spray it all over and wait 30 seconds before wiping it off.


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leftyinsnellville

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Re: cleaning my twisted fury questions
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2008, 06:45:45 AM »
I've been using Lysol 4-in-1 Orange cleaner for about three months now and I love it.  I dilute it about 60/40 with water.  Lysol breaks down oil just as good as Simple Green (just MHO), but leaves the coverstock with a nice tackiness that makes me feel like I could palm that ball if my hand was a touch stronger.  Just don't use Lysol during competition as it is not on the approved list, but before and after the competition is fine.
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Re: cleaning my twisted fury questions
« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2008, 07:40:41 AM »
Some of the best degreasers in the world are sitting right on your kitchen sink.  Get a bucket, put your ball in it and pour scalding hot water in the bucket with some Dawn and scrub that baby down.  Keep doing it until no more oil comes out of the ball, and make sure you rinse it with fresh hot water to get all the soap out.  I also use a motorcycle cleaner called S100.  It is a crazy good degreaser that you can spray all over your motorcycle and rinse off with water without harm to plastics, rubber, chrome etc...  It does a phenomenal job on bowling balls as well.
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Trubador

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Re: cleaning my twisted fury questions
« Reply #4 on: March 24, 2008, 07:46:00 AM »
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There are many fine products out there to remove the oil from balls. Using household cleaners seems idiotic.


This guy knows a bit about bowling balls and Brunswick covers.  Maybe it isn't idiotic.

http://www.morichbowling.com/Products/Cleaning.htm
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Blows

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Re: cleaning my twisted fury questions
« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2008, 10:15:46 PM »
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The ONE cleaning method that we strongly oppose is "baking" (or using heat of any kind) a ball.  Most of the methods that use "heat" as a cleaning method suggest that this is a way to "revive" the ball after it has lost an obvious amount of hook.


I have never heard nothing about this before? Why would they say its bad? While hanging around pro shops i had heard good things about using heat odd
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Trubador

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Re: cleaning my twisted fury questions
« Reply #6 on: March 25, 2008, 09:49:04 AM »
I have heard that people have cracked the coverstock or caused the parts to separate when baking.  I've never baked a ball, but I can tell you scalding hot water makes quite a bit of oil come out.  Some of the guys I know use a hair dryer on the cover to avoid overheating the ball.  

I'm kind of chicken.  I'm not one of those guys that gets free balls all the time.  Balls are too expensive to wreck baking them.

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Edited on 3/25/2008 9:50 AM
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NicholasE

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Re: cleaning my twisted fury questions
« Reply #7 on: March 25, 2008, 10:02:30 AM »
Well from what i understand you should never use any heat wether it be water, hair dyrer or anything like that if its reaches over 140 degrees F. After that it starts taking the plastisizers (sp) out of the ball turning the cover into a urethane cover instead of reactive.

The rejuvinators are supposed to use a controlled temp of heat not getting over 140 or whatever the exact limit is.

Now my friend he took his ball and put it in the oven, let it sit in there a short period, noting too long and then the next day or week the ball was cracked all the way around from finger hole to finger hole.
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Re: cleaning my twisted fury questions
« Reply #8 on: March 25, 2008, 10:18:17 AM »
I would never put a ball in the oven.

The Revivor, however, has been extensively tested by Brunswick for their equipment with only positive results. Probably because the ball is rotating constantly and temperatures are controlled very well. At our shop we've used one for about 5 years on every brand of equipment with no ill effects. Bowling balls can handle some heat (within limits) but don't do very well in cold.


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DON DRAPER

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Re: cleaning my twisted fury questions
« Reply #9 on: March 25, 2008, 10:41:42 AM »
the regular use of a revivor or rejuvenator on brunswick equipment will have no negative impact on the bowling ball. on the contrary, it will prolong the balls hooking action and hitting power by extracting the lane oil that the ball has absorbed. if you use other brands of bowling balls make sure you follow the manufacturers suggested methods of extracting absorbed lane oil and for cleaning the ball.
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