Ok I thought I heard them all the stuff in the ball heating and hot water debate.
I found this in alt.sport.bowling its in a thread about should you use
the hot water/dawn method of cleaning a ball.
>2 years ago Carmen Salvino came to the place I work. Apparently an additive
>that is used in the balls that the company he works for was seeping out. The
>additive is a chlorinated wax. I didn't talk to him, but it was my
>impression that some of the additives used to make the balls reactive leach
>out of the ball. Trust me, I am not a chemist, I just work at a chemical
>company near Chicago. I do know that working with chlorinated parrafins that
>if you soak them in hot water or heat them, they will tend to be tacky until
>they pick up enough contaminates to cover the tacky outer skin. But if you
>heat the parrafin, the contaminates will fall off with some of the parrafin
>as it oozes through the surface. Is that what is happening? Are particle
>resin balls or reactive resin balls made with a chlorinated parrafin to give
>them a waxy surface that helps them track through oil until they cannot be
>"tacky" enough to track? I think Carmen was looking for an additive that
>would not basically drip from the ball, not sure we ever helped him do what
>he was looking to do. Please forgive my ignorance about terms involving ball
>construction as I am really a novice when it comes to most things about
>bowling. I bowled league bowling in the mid 80's overseas in military,
>didn't bowl at all until 2005, now I bowl once a week in league plus a
>little practice. My head spins when I hear guys talk bowling lingo. I just
>thought I would share this, maybe it means something to those with more
>extensive knowledge.
It was just that part-
>Are particle resin balls or reactive resin balls made with a chlorinated >parrafin to give
>them a waxy surface that helps them track through oil until they cannot be
>"tacky" enough to track?
Made me go "Say what?" I googled "chlorinated paraffins" it does seem to be a plasticzer I think. But not sure if they use it in balls or not.
