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duvallite

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Refreshing surface on a particle ball?
« on: December 07, 2010, 10:06:45 AM »
When refreshing or resurfacing an older particle ball, like a Hammer Diesel Particle or a Track Mutant, can I still use my abralon pads for best results, or is it better to use something else like sandpaper?  What's the best way to refresh these older particle balls without screwing up the particles?
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Re: Refreshing surface on a particle ball?
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2010, 06:37:29 PM »
Is a post at BBE saying that sanding a particle ball will kill it.. Scotch Brite pads where mentioned to be better then Abralon pads and sandpaper.. Maybe somebody will fill ALOT of the blanks for you..
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Re: Refreshing surface on a particle ball?
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2010, 07:12:37 PM »
i do not think that requires an specific sandpaper or abralon or scotchbrite...
i do not think that companies put just a ultra thin  coat of particles, i think they put the particles in to the coverstock mix... so maybe yes you're killing a few ones but also  i think you're exposing  new ones.
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Re: Refreshing surface on a particle ball?
« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2010, 09:36:27 PM »
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When refreshing or resurfacing an older particle ball, like a Hammer Diesel Particle or a Track Mutant, can I still use my abralon pads for best results, or is it better to use something else like sandpaper?  What's the best way to refresh these older particle balls without screwing up the particles?


Some of the particle balls made by COlumbia300 in their San Antonio factory (original Chaos and the like) used very soft particle that were smoothed and flattened by wet/dry sandpaper. Those balls should be sanded with Scotch-Brite pads. But they were a very small minority.

Most particles since then can be sanded with any abrasive.

Some exceptions:
1. Original Brunswick particles required a special abrasive called Trizact to affect the particles. They were super hard. Most Quantum particles and balls as late as the Riot Zone and the Lane#1 Golden Nugget required Trizact to affect the particles. Otherwise you were just sanding the resin in which the particles were embedded.
2. Legends Diamond particles and Lanemasters Super-Carbon were virtually the same: industrial diamond dust. Trizact has a miniscule effect on them. They really needed to be sanded with diamond dust pads.

Almost all other particles can be affected by normal wet/dry sandpaper which uses silicon carbide (a very hard abrasive, anyway) as the abrasive.

One caution some Storm and Roto-Grip particles were actually rubber.
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