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kendog

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Difference between pearl and solid?
« on: May 25, 2004, 12:37:29 AM »
Last week a local pro was telling me that "pearl is just part of the color".

My question is, what is the difference precisely, between pearl and solid. I thought that "pearl" actually pertained to the resin itself. I thought I'd check here and see what I might learn. Thanks.
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a_ak57

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Re: Difference between pearl and solid?
« Reply #1 on: May 25, 2004, 03:50:58 PM »
He's crazy.  Pearl refers to an additive put into the resin mixture, that provides more length and more backend, better for drier lanes.
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Re: Difference between pearl and solid?
« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2004, 04:30:11 PM »
What used to be used to pearlize a ball is mica, and I THINK it still is, but they might be using something else now too.

I read in BTM once a long time ago (a Bob Summerville article) that mica is slipperier than resin, so it helps produce skid because some small percentage of the ball surface is mica rather than resin.

A different way of saying just about the same thing was said in a post on this site a long time ago.  I can't remember who said it, but what he said was that the pearl additive makes the ball skid more simply by cutting down on the amount of the resin-added urethane that is on the surface of the ball and replacing it with the pearl additive.

Both of those points of view are essentially the same.  If there is another reason that pearls skid a bit more, I'm sure someone will post it here.

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Re: Difference between pearl and solid?
« Reply #3 on: May 25, 2004, 04:32:12 PM »
Yep, shiv is right.

But most importantly, you can say "you're wrong" and rub it in his face!!  Just be prepared to be annilhilated on the lanes!
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Re: Difference between pearl and solid?
« Reply #4 on: May 25, 2004, 04:34:03 PM »
I disagreed with him in as much as we both were going from basically heresay. I told him I would consult the B/R library.
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Re: Difference between pearl and solid?
« Reply #5 on: May 25, 2004, 04:39:59 PM »
Too bad for him, he's wrong.  You know why he thinks that?  Some companies label their colors as "red pearl", even though that should really be under the coverstock type.

I'd be willing to think that's why he thought that way.  Poor company labeling.
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Re: Difference between pearl and solid?
« Reply #6 on: May 26, 2004, 08:38:53 AM »
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or a tweak of the chemical additives (other than adding pearl) or final finish of the coverstock.


I find this very easy to believe, based on my experience with the Diesel Particle Pearl and the Diesel Particle Solid.  I have each of these balls in both 16# and 15#.  (When I first bought them, I was throwing 16#, and when I switched to 15#, I bought both in that weight as well.)

Both Diesel Particle Solids are very slow to absorb lane oil, and both are also very slow to absorb Hook-It.  

Both Diesel Particle Pearls absorb lane oil and Hook-It at pretty much the same rate as most balls.

This speaks in support of what king of the mill was told by company reps, as quoted above.

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