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resurfaceing the ufd cover question????
« on: November 07, 2005, 11:00:45 PM »
Does any one have any success storys or horrow storys with this cover after resurfaceing it? I have never really had luck with columbia balls or brunswick for that fact comeing back to life after resurfaceing. If youve had success please tell what gritt and what polish if any you used to achieve it. It will be on a cook sphere machine that I will be resurfaceing it on.
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Re: resurfaceing the ufd cover question????
« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2005, 08:16:54 AM »
I have heard rumors that the extra "friction" was created by some sort of mild/soft particles. If that is true, I would try to make sure you used nylon pads and not sandpaper or diamond studded grits in the machine, if at all possible. I'd personally be afraid to use anything but nylon pads in re-surfacing such a ball.

As always, the best thing is to go to the source: Columbia and ask them for th ebest procedure.
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Re: resurfaceing the ufd cover question????
« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2005, 09:13:54 AM »
Ok thanks charlest. Do you know if trizact pads would have the same effect as they do on particle balls, i.e cutting the broke particles down to exspose fresh particle. Does brunswick and lane one still recomend trizact for there particle covers? I really havent been keeping up with the hooplah over the past year so forgive my ignorance. All the new balls and techniques over the past few years has really been overwhelming and just to much to bear at times so I took a break from it all.
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Re: resurfaceing the ufd cover question????
« Reply #3 on: November 08, 2005, 09:14:57 AM »
I forgot to add that I have brown,burgandy,green,grey nylon pads you think these would do the trick ok?
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Re: resurfaceing the ufd cover question????
« Reply #4 on: November 08, 2005, 01:55:15 PM »
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Ok thanks charlest. Do you know if trizact pads would have the same effect as they do on particle balls, i.e cutting the broke particles down to exspose fresh particle.


Trizact, as far as I know, is the hardest material used on bowling balls,since they were made to "crack" the ceramic used in the original Brunswick particle balls. I wouldn't use them on the UFD coverstocks.

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Does brunswick and lane one still recomend trizact for there particle covers?


Brunswick now recommends sandpaper. I do not know if they have changed the material of which their particles are made. I assume they have.
What Brunswick recommends, Lane#1 must, since they use strictly, as of this moment in time, Brunswick's chemical supplier, Bayer.

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 I really havent been keeping up with the hooplah over the past year so forgive my ignorance. All the new balls and techniques over the past few years has really been overwhelming and just to much to bear at times so I took a break from it all.
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Actually some of the technology has been kept secret by some of the manufacturers. I am not sure if I have kept up. I can only try.

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