FWIW, I tend to agree with twoheadedboy in every comment, except the polishing. These original balls were kind of hard to polish and they never seemed to take well to it. You might try some Trizact pads (first the orange one, then the white one), that is, if you can find a pro shop that still has them. They always worked on the original Brunswick particles.
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