So I finally got my parcel... Thanks Mr Beans for the fast delivery (mind that I am here in Germany!)
So I had to try it on my XXXL... Plastic... ever polished a plastic? NO! Try and you will see these babies are very hard to polish by hand... well. Here we go:
I first made a picture (all picture-links are high resolution! I also put some link for a small version for the people with small bandwith!):
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This is the Trackarea... very worn!
Then I took a grey pad and dulled the ball to 800grit:
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Then I took a small piece of cotton cloth and dripped some polish on it and move in circles over the ball till I saw no more white polish but water... another drop and so on... till I got around the whole ball... then I used a dry piece of cloth to repolish it "dry".
Redid the first thing dripping polish on the cloth and moving circlevise over the ball.. till I was satisfied with the result.,
Here's a small picture of the two pieces of cloth (these were totaly clean before use!)
http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/59/5585759/400_3162353965343036.jpgthe left one I use with the fresh polish... the right I use for cleaning - dry-polishing
Then I took some special time for the track area... this is the most worn part of the ball and I hoped to get it shiniy again... didn't work that good... a picture of the ball (not the track area!):
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Needless to say the ball is shiny like a mirror (except the trackarea
... I'll have to redo that area again).
And I never ever have achieved that result with the polish I used till now!
Sumup:
It took quite a while and some muscle to get the ball into a shiny condition but it really is now! (not the track area but I knew that before) BUT it didn't take more efford than with the other polish I used before... but with a better result in "shinyness".
So what is so special about Bean's mixture? I don't know..
I haven't use many polishes... I mainly use normal polish for plastic glas I bought in the supermarket and that worked... BUT that stuff is strong... really strong - it "smells" or rather "burns" its way right up into the brain. BAH!
Not Bean's mixture... that stuff doesn't smell at all! and I also found no negative effect on the hands thay just got a bit dry from the abrassive..
though I am a bit dissapointed cause it really is more of a liquid/milk than a paste (what I expected but I guess I used around 0.5 oz on the whole ball and I used a lot of it... and most of it is still on the cloth... so if it is true that adding some water will do the trick... well it's fine with me to use a milk like liquid... but I like paste more... stiks on the ball better
)
So:
Bean's sauce was as good if not better as the strong chemistry I normaly use... with even better result. There is some abrassive in the polish (I can feel it with the hand) but that is a very high grit...
What to do with the other two bottles of polish Mr Bean? I know I won't need much of that stuff and the 8oz will take some time till they're gone...
Good stuff Bean! But now I don't know what to do with the other bottles... well I guess I will "spill" the stuff around my friends and ebay...
AH! almost forgot... I will update once I used the ball how it runs down the lane now and how long the ball will stay in it's condition. (I know it is worn badly but works like hell for me... it also is just one year old...
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"Have fun and bowl well!" - Grayson
Check out my Vid in my profile.. just short clips cut together about how I bowled and how I play today
and by the way... I am a "Fritz" a "Jerry"... I am from Germany! (And please don't call me Kraut! Cause then I call you Dumbarse)
Edited on 3/9/2007 1:20 PM
UPDATE:
I was bored and couldn't resist to do a little experiment...
So I took a bottle with a spray aplicator (like used for window cleaner) filled ot with water...
I took the piece ot cloth I used yesterday to polish my XXXL... now totaly white with polish and just dripped another drop - JUST ONE DROP - in the middle of it and started polishing my already polished Tsunami...
NO SANDING / DULLING to 800!
As soon as the cloth got a bit dry I just sprayed a bit water in/onto the middle of it and proceded...
And what should I say... the polish worked! So the amount I used yesterday for a whole ball and the one drop I but on the already used cloth was enough to polish my Tsunami...
with the same result as for my XXXL! shiny as a mirrow!
tomorrow I will use the ball in league... I didn't want to polish it... cause - never change a running system - but the lanes get dry rather quick and I hope to get a bit of lenght out of the Tsunami with a stronger backend... if not... I always carry a gray pad with me...
tomorrow I'll write how the two balls worked as these are my only ones at the moment (I only own three bowling balls - yes! there are people with less than four balls! !!! LMAO !!!- and my Carbide+ is at the proshops right now..)
So wish me luck and hopefully the Two Will do their work. If not - ITS ALL YOUR FAULT! BEANS! (just jokin'!)
Edited on 3/10/2007 1:13 PM
