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ctdspike

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Polish products / Hand applied
« on: February 23, 2010, 11:49:28 PM »
I have mainly used Clean-n-Dull for cleaning my bowling balls after each night.
I would like to find out what polish product I could use to applied by hand. Looking at polish over an abrashion surface.

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ctdspike

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Re: Polish products / Hand applied
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2010, 08:02:26 AM »
Interesting on the Snake Oil product.. I have never seen that one before. Is there any different degrees of polish? Or is polish just polish.. Heck.. many years ago we use to use Turtle Wax.... Those plastic balls use to shine.... LOL

charlest

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Re: Polish products / Hand applied
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2010, 08:35:30 AM »
Snake Oil should work quite well when applied by hand. Of course the smoother the beginning surface, the easier it is to get a shine on the ball.

Valentino's Snake Oil is considered a "non-abrasive" polish, in that it basically keeps the same grit level "under" the polish as you started with. Another good non-abrasive polish is Lanemasters factory Finish.

There are also which are considered abrasive polishes, like Secret Sauce. Many of them will get the ball to shine quicker because they have an aggressive abrasive in the polish. Most people find it best not to use a finish finer than about P1000-P1500 grit under Secret Sauce. Some other good abrasive polishes are Storm's Xtra Shine, Powerhouse Factory Finish and Brunswick's High Gloss factory Finish, besides Secret Sauce.

Buddies, BowlingBall.com and BowlersParadise.com are good sources for polishes, in addition to Valentinos' themselves.

Valentino's Snake Oil is my 90-95% polish.
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ctdspike

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Re: Polish products / Hand applied
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2010, 10:45:00 AM »
Thanks.. All good information.....