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xrayjay

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When is heat bad when polishing?
« on: November 01, 2014, 01:21:20 AM »
I've always wondered if heat has a negative effect on the balls surface when polishing and heavy pressure.... I remember a guy at the old shop who would produce a lot of heat when he was polishing his equipment.....


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Re: When is heat bad when polishing?
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2014, 05:46:12 AM »
Heat is merely a byproduct of friction. The more friction you have, the more heat you will produce.

 That being said, there used to be a guy here who could polish literally anything, and he did it by applying lots of pressure and heat.  He would apply so much pressure that, sometimes if he wasn't careful, he would overpower the spinner and stop it completely.

 Consequently, he was the only person I ever saw that was able to highly polish a blue urethane Hammer, and I do mean HIGHLY polished.

 He was also the only person I ever saw who could really "kill" the hook of an aggressive reactive ball with polish. He could literally put a "mirror finish" on a ball, one you could easily see your reflection in, and he claimed it was the pressure and heat that let him do it.
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Re: When is heat bad when polishing?
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2014, 12:50:48 PM »
If you need to produce the heat extremes that Juggernaut referred to, with that pro shop/driller, I think that ball may be either the wrong one for the job or it was drilled wrong.

Most balls just need to right grit level under the proposed polish to produce the reaction necessary, depending, of course, on whether it was the right ball in the first place and had the right or close-to-right drilling in the 2nd place. --- With all the options in place in today's bowling environment, between sandings and different abrasive pads and the huge range of polishes and compounds available, the right surface for any ball is relatively easy, simple and straightforward and should be accomplished in 1 or 2 attempts. ---- Again this predicated n the assumptions that the "right" ball was drilled the "right" way for the bowler and the oil/lane surface on which is bowling.
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Re: When is heat bad when polishing?
« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2014, 01:18:52 PM »
Back when Ebonite introduced Hook Again I remember getting an impression from the marketing materials or discussions about said marketing materials that "ball death" partly could be explained by friction between ball and lane producing "glazed "spots on the ball surface - thus reducing hook. These "glazed" spots could not be fixed by Hook Again, but were easily removed by sanding the ball.

Anyway, since then I have been wary of producing too much heat when polishing a ball I have sanded to a certain surface grit. Don't want to make new "glazed" spots.
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