Tried them once so far.
Nice heavy duty vinyl, zip lock pack.
Smell inside pack, not bad at all.
Awkward to remove: they are folded in half, but are all connected like a paper towel roll, with perforations. Had to remove all of them, unfold them, and tear one off. Then put all the rest back into the vinyl pouch. Kind of tedious and awkward.
They do remove oil. In fact, of all the cleaners approved for use DURING bowling that I have tried, these appear, in this initial use, to actually remove oil lines embedded into the ball. The only ones to do that are the ones approved for after or before bowling: Clean n Dull, Hook-It, and Lanemasters cleaner.
So far so good.
I had to rub for 15 - 20 seconds to remove the oil lines. Normally, one would rub for 3 or 4 seconds with the above stronger cleaners on one 5" - 6" section. With cleaners approved during bowling, you coudl rub for hours and not remove the oil lines.
Smell: after cleaning 2 balls thoroughly, the smell did get to me and I am not particularly sensitive to this, and similar, like Lanemasters, which bothers a lot of people. I immediately took the used wipe out to the garage garbage pail.
The wipe is a slightly rough, orange colore, loosely woven cloth and is well soaked with the cleaner. There was plenty to easily do the 2 complete balls I wanted to do. I might have been able to do a 3rd ball, but the smell got to me.
I'd advise anyone to do this in a well ventilated area or with open windows.
Feel: although this is supposed to be water soluble, it felt slightly oily, not much at all. In the future, I will use a latex, nitrile or rubber glove when applying it.
So far, so good, overall.
"None are so blind as those who will not see."
Edited by charlest on 12/23/2011 at 3:06 PM
