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tloy

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Best Ball Cleaner?
« on: December 31, 2007, 11:38:28 PM »
What is the best ball cleaner, home remedy or brand name for cleaning reactive balls? Thank you
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Re: Best Ball Cleaner?
« Reply #1 on: January 01, 2008, 07:53:11 AM »
I sent a email to chris at buddies. He recommended knockout so I might try it. Just would like a spray that is not to toxic.
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Re: Best Ball Cleaner?
« Reply #2 on: January 01, 2008, 08:04:07 AM »
lighter fluid and a brillo pad!

You might find a LOT of threads about this subject in both the MISCELLANEOUS and the COVERSTOCK PREPARATION forums, if you set your preferences back to maximum and do a search.
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Re: Best Ball Cleaner?
« Reply #3 on: January 01, 2008, 08:07:04 AM »
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ighter fluid and a brillo pad!  


Are you cleaning bowling balls or polishing combat boots sans the brillo pads?  
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Re: Best Ball Cleaner?
« Reply #4 on: January 01, 2008, 10:00:52 AM »
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lighter fluid and a brillo pad!


Great advice for the Big B Inferno lineup.
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Re: Best Ball Cleaner?
« Reply #5 on: January 01, 2008, 10:23:23 AM »
I like my black magic rejuvinator..thats pretty good cleaner.
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Re: Best Ball Cleaner?
« Reply #6 on: January 01, 2008, 10:26:02 AM »
I second what nick said, thats all I use....... bought a quart 5 years ago and still have some left......
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Re: Best Ball Cleaner?
« Reply #7 on: January 01, 2008, 10:51:39 AM »
I use a mix of Simple Green/Jungle Jack(dollar store knock off brand), Isopropyl Alcohol, and then a little water. It works very very well.
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Re: Best Ball Cleaner?
« Reply #8 on: January 01, 2008, 12:33:08 PM »
Ditto on the Black Magic Ultimate Rejuvenator. I've been using it liberally on all of my balls at the lanes after I finish bowling for over 2 1/2 years with excellent results. I've had no loss of performance in any of my balls since I started using this ball cleaner.
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Re: Best Ball Cleaner?
« Reply #9 on: January 01, 2008, 01:46:15 PM »
The best regular-use cleaner is the Legends cleaner.  Got a bit of an odor to it but it turned my yellow microfiber towel black in about a month cleaning my new (not oil-soaked) Lanemasters balls.

A good poor-man's solution is a mixture of half Simple Green, half rubbing alcohol, half water.

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Re: Best Ball Cleaner?
« Reply #10 on: January 01, 2008, 01:49:24 PM »
I have been using one of the citrus degreasers (Zep or Windex) for a couple of years with no regrets.
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Re: Best Ball Cleaner?
« Reply #11 on: January 01, 2008, 03:39:48 PM »
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The best regular-use cleaner is the Legends cleaner. Got a bit of an odor to it but it turned my yellow microfiber towel black in about a month cleaning my new (not oil-soaked) Lanemasters balls.


Shelly, I agree with you that Legends/Lanemaster Cleaner is good. As far as turning a yellow microfiber towel black in a month of cleaning balls, I can do that also using Black Magic Ultimate Rejuvenator cleaning any of my balls including the Lanemaster balls as you mentioned. You mentioned the Legends Cleaner has a bit of an odor. Let me tell you it has an extremely strong-powerful-potent odor of which other cleaners don't have and is a health hazzard to some people. Here is a post I made about it under another topic in this forum....

 
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The Legends/Lanemaster Cleaner (possibly the better cleaner out there) is the one I fear worse than the Awesome Cleaner and Black Magic Rejuvenator because of the extremely strong potent odor it has. People with emphysema, asthma, or other breathing/lung problems have to be extremely careful when using this Legends/Lanemaster Cleaner as it can take their breath away if they accidently inhale it. I KNOW this because I am one of those people and that is why even though I like how it cleans, I seldom ever use it unless I have run out of my regular ball cleaner. Even my wife puts up a fuss when I use this cleaner even in the garage and she tells me to take it outside if I have to use it. I am surprised that Legends/Lanemaster doesn't caution people of the dangers of breathing their ball cleaner.
 


To sum it up, I agree with you that it is a good cleaner, but it is not for everyone.

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Re: Best Ball Cleaner?
« Reply #12 on: January 01, 2008, 03:54:05 PM »
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A good poor-man's solution is a mixture of half Simple Green, half rubbing alcohol, half water.

SH


How do you have 3 halves?? lol
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Re: Best Ball Cleaner?
« Reply #13 on: January 01, 2008, 04:04:30 PM »
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A good poor-man's solution is a mixture of half Simple Green, half rubbing alcohol, half water.
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Re: Best Ball Cleaner?
« Reply #14 on: January 01, 2008, 04:04:50 PM »
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A good poor-man's solution is a mixture of half Simple Green, half rubbing alcohol, half water.

SH


How do you have 3 halves?? lol


See, most people only use two.  You're using two, that's all you've got.  Where can you go from there?  Nowhere.  What if you need a little bit of extra clean?  Three.  One more.

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