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LuckyLefty

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Big Game - Rubber Belts
« on: November 21, 2013, 09:47:07 PM »
My league super star Mission X so useful on my League Au Jus started to labor.

So I switched to my go long and smooth Bruns Strike King!  Here we go!
6 or 7 out of 8 269 or whatever looks easy.

All of a sudden rubber all over the bow tie.  Then 9, 9, My buddy says it looks dead and all of sudden he goes by me...did I add 9, then 9/9.

Yuch!

Cleaner that is best to take this crud off the ball quickly without changing the surface
I've seen the Ebonite Powerhouse cleaner.  I've seen another it says for grime/rubber belts, ......

Any advice....?

Regards,

Luckylefty
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Re: Big Game - Rubber Belts
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2013, 01:33:43 AM »

I personally have not found anything you can use during play that is strong enough and fast enough. When I get crap like that I just keep spraying my daily cleaner with some serious elbow grease, then after a few tries it's mostly (or all) gone.
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LuckyLefty

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Re: Big Game - Rubber Belts
« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2013, 07:11:59 AM »
Not....

What do you use for cleaner?

Regards,

Luckylefty
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Re: Big Game - Rubber Belts
« Reply #3 on: November 22, 2013, 07:36:54 AM »

Brunswick Remove All cleaner. There are lots of good cleaners on the market that will work, but those gooey marks are tough ones for sure.
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Re: Big Game - Rubber Belts
« Reply #4 on: November 22, 2013, 08:30:04 AM »
Thanks NOT!

Appreciated!

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Luckylefty
PS any other ideas?
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Re: Big Game - Rubber Belts
« Reply #5 on: November 22, 2013, 09:35:43 AM »
I keep a package of the Powerhouse Adrenaline wipes in my bag just for this purpose. They will remove the belt marks when they are still fresh. Not just the average belt marks, but the ones that look like shoe sole glue is on your ball.
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Re: Big Game - Rubber Belts
« Reply #6 on: November 22, 2013, 10:30:01 AM »
The majority of the time this happens in a  Brunswick (A or A2) pinsetter house.  It is not belts as some assume.  It is left over contact cement that mechanics use to affix ball wheel strips to create pressure between the urethane lift rods and the ball wheel.  After a time the strips fall off and contact cement is exposed to the balls as they go up the lift rods.  Houses with good maintenance procedures where machines are cleaned on a regular basis find these issues before they happen and remove old contact cement and affix new strips that are a wear item.  In a general sense dirty houses have poor maintenance procedures.

So, what you are in most cases in an A/A2 machine house is contact cement....a gooey type of material that is hard to remove.  This is why it's so hard to remove with general purpose approved ball cleaners.

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Re: Big Game - Rubber Belts
« Reply #7 on: November 25, 2013, 03:32:36 AM »
If this is the same stuff we get on balls in my house (AMF 82/70 pinsetters) Valentino's Remedy RX + a lot of rubbing will take it off and is legal for use during sanctioned bowling.  Clean & Dull takes it off with less rubbing but is not legal during sanctioned bowling.  --  JohnP
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Re: Big Game - Rubber Belts
« Reply #8 on: November 25, 2013, 04:34:55 AM »
Finger nail polish remover works extremely well or alcohol.
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Re: Big Game - Rubber Belts
« Reply #9 on: November 25, 2013, 07:30:52 AM »
Quote from: notclay on November 22, 2013, 01:33:43 AM

I personally have not found anything you can use during play that is strong enough and fast enough. When I get crap like that I just keep spraying my daily cleaner with some serious elbow grease, then after a few tries it's mostly (or all) gone.


Lanemasters cleaner is now legal to use anytime and it will remove belt marks and almost any foreign substance from a ball.
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Re: Big Game - Rubber Belts
« Reply #10 on: November 25, 2013, 08:47:24 AM »

Thank you, Jeff, good to know...
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Re: Big Game - Rubber Belts
« Reply #11 on: November 26, 2013, 02:15:49 PM »
+1 on the powerhouse adrenaline wipes
the new Eruption pro - emergency orange is a belt mark magnet

adrenaline wipes works every time
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