Was thinking yesterday: bathing our ball to extract oil is no fun:
(1)Change water up to 6 times? Energy and time consuming, to say the least.
(2)Don't drop the ball! One mistake in handling those wet and slippery balls so many times and we may crack something.
(3)In a dry state like mine( California), thou shall not waste water!
My solution( hopefully I was the first to "dream" this up): an ICE CHEST with drain!!! I know that ice chests about 40 to 48 quarts will be good for 2 balls. They are about US$25 each.
I filled mine(purposely)with hotter water at 160 deg.F and closed the lid. I found:
(1)It did not crack.
(2)The drain plug did not blow out.
(3)Most importantly, after 3 hours, water stayed HOT at 140 deg.F!
What do you experts think? Will ball manufacturers make something like this?Hopefully someone will try it and give us more feedbacks........
Please note:
(1)Be careful when draining the hot water. It may burn you!
(2)The drain plug "may" leak a little?
(3)Especially in Winter time: initial colder temp. of the balls will significantly lower the water temp. Adjust after 10 min. as needed( I use boiling water to adjust).
HTH to get you that 300 game! Ha!Ha!

Vincent

Sounds like a good way to bathe a ball to me.  I use one of the sinks in the bar area at the center when I do it, but the water does cool down fairly rapidly.  I'll give it a try.  --  JohnP

I think its a great idea.  I guess ice chest and bowling balls never really clicked until you mentioned it.  

What about this: take a bucket and some kitty litter, the real fine stuff, and fill a bucket halfway.  Insert the ball and fill the bucket until it covers the ball.  Now get another bucket(or ice chest) and fill it with hot water and take the kitty litter bucket and put it in.  In theory, it would work.  The kitty litter absorbs the oil and the hot water will make the ball sweat.  This should save on water changes, with only warming it the only problem.

You should market the ice chest, put some ball cups in and patent it.

Still a great idea!!  Not sure about my idea,though.......
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In the hot water bath(traditional 5-gal. bucket), the oil floats to the top as it comes out of the ball, so I find it easier to just leave the hot water lightly streaming into the bucket. As it overflows, the oil and scum are constantly drained off. Most ice chests have their drain plugs in the bottom. It's hard to work against mean old Mr. Gravity!
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