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wireman

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Cheap oil extraction?
« on: May 26, 2010, 02:15:53 AM »
Finally got above 80 yesterday, had balls in car, meeting wife to bowl after work.Noticed that her raw hammer burn had oil oozing, sweating, out of ball wiped it off and wrapped it in a towel hoping to absorb some of the oil. Is this a poor mans rejuvinator oven or am I killing our equiptment?
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leftyinsnellville

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Re: Cheap oil extraction?
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2010, 10:29:07 AM »
It's not a problem as long as the temperature in your car doesn't get above 140 degrees, which it likely will not.

As far as a being a cheap rejuvinator, just leaving your ball in the car won't work as well because there will be nothing to continually wipe the oil off the ball.  Regardless, it'll still get some of the oil out of the ball, and that's better than nothing.

I'd suggest throwing your balls in your dishwasher instead (just make sure the "dry" function is turned off...), it works really good.
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Badger856

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Re: Cheap oil extraction?
« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2010, 10:34:12 AM »
a good way to do oil extraction is get a 5 gallon bucket and buy some bentonite or clay kitty litter and put the ball in the bucket and cover the ball up.  leave for a day and clean with good cleaner when done.  draws oil out like crazy
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dizzyfugu

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Re: Cheap oil extraction?
« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2010, 10:34:35 AM »
That's pretty normal when the ball is "full" with lane conditioner and gets warm - and a sign that it is dire time to do an oil extraction.

You can either have the pro shop do it professionally with a Rejuvenator, or do it at home in a bucket of hot (NOT boiling) tap water with a splash of detergent. Leave the ball in the water about 30min (until the water cools down), and probably repeat the process once or twice. The ball is done when you take it out of the water and the water does not pearl off of the surface anymore - and it should be "squeaking" when dry when you rub your finger over it.

Other methods are a tour in the dish washer at lowest temperature, and putting the ball in a black bag in sunlight has also been a safe option.

Just NEVER put the ball in an oven - this can prove desastrous, because heat cann hardly be controlled and uneven heating causes tension between core, filler ans shell, causing cracks!
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Re: Cheap oil extraction?
« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2010, 12:48:21 PM »
First, I'll say all this depends on where you are, how hot it gets there and how hot it gets in your trunk. ( NEVER EVER over 130-140 )

Take a medium trash bag, put in ball, cover ball and half way around ball with Abzorb It or some other fine grain absorbent material, get as much of the air out as you can, tie off bag, leave in trunk for a couple hours.

The absorbent will constantly take up any oil that the heat gets out.

******** I'd first find out how hot the trunk gets before doing this *****


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wireman

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Re: Cheap oil extraction?
« Reply #5 on: May 26, 2010, 12:57:49 PM »
great advise. thanks. what should a run in the rejuvinator cost per ball?
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cisco1869

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Re: Cheap oil extraction?
« Reply #6 on: May 26, 2010, 01:50:39 PM »
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great advise. thanks. what should a run in the rejuvinator cost per ball?
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It will probably depend on the pro shop and pricing in the area you are in but the one I go to usually has a special for the rejuvinator, a full resurface on a Haus (or similar) machine and new grips all for $35 or $40.  I do not know the charge for just the rejuvinator.
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Bowlin for Beer

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Re: Cheap oil extraction?
« Reply #7 on: May 26, 2010, 02:12:04 PM »
Yeah, be careful depending where you live.
In Phoenix, your car interior could get up over 200 degrees during the summer months - enough to cook a small animal and definitely your bowling ball.
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lefty bowl to win

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Re: Cheap oil extraction?
« Reply #8 on: May 26, 2010, 03:17:24 PM »
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That''s pretty normal when the ball is "full" with lane conditioner and gets warm - and a sign that it is dire time to do an oil extraction.

You can either have the pro shop do it professionally with a Rejuvenator, or do it at home in a bucket of hot (NOT boiling) tap water with a splash of detergent. Leave the ball in the water about 30min (until the water cools down), and probably repeat the process once or twice. The ball is done when you take it out of the water and the water does not pearl off of the surface anymore - and it should be "squeaking" when dry when you rub your finger over it.

Other methods are a tour in the dish washer at lowest temperature, and putting the ball in a black bag in sunlight has also been a safe option.

Just NEVER put the ball in an oven - this can prove desastrous, because heat cann hardly be controlled and uneven heating causes tension between core, filler ans shell, causing cracks!
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Read the last Sentence above ... This is extremely true! i work for a Pro Shop and had a guy bring in an old (what was once green) zone. Well while his wife was asleep he snuck down stairs and placed his ball in the oven "on broil" after low temp did nothing to the ball. 30 minutes later the fire department was trying to put his house fire out. it ended up destroying their kitchen and living room. so please DO NOT put your bowling ball in the oven!
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wireman

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Re: Cheap oil extraction?
« Reply #9 on: May 26, 2010, 03:48:10 PM »
Honestly I figure theres too much money on the line to take chances gonna work out a bulk deal with the pro shop....better safe than sorry.
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DON DRAPER

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Re: Cheap oil extraction?
« Reply #10 on: May 26, 2010, 09:29:48 PM »
I too will not risk oil extraction by homemade means on my equipment. A Rejuvenator or Revivor is the only way to go.
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larry mc

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Re: Cheap oil extraction?
« Reply #11 on: May 26, 2010, 09:40:49 PM »
mabey we can throw all our old balls into the gulf and soak up all the oil ,,  just a thouhgt
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lenstanles703

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Re: Cheap oil extraction?
« Reply #12 on: May 27, 2010, 06:56:27 AM »
The Ebonite Hook Again system works very well for me. I leave the ball in as long as a week, then blow on it with a hair dryer and no oil comes out. I've used the hot water in a bucket method and leaving the balls in the sun too. These are ok for a quick perk up but that's it. I don't have a dish washer so that one I haven't tried. Cracked one ball with a heat lamp (too long on one spot), used an oven too but put heat on low and turned off heat when ball went in after oven was warm-no ill effects but didn't get all the oil out. Never used rejuvinator oven at pro shop locally took too long to get ball back and cost too much.
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MrPerfect

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Re: Cheap oil extraction?
« Reply #13 on: May 27, 2010, 11:41:12 AM »
What was the temp on the Rejuvenator Oven again? Why wouldn't you just warm some water to that temp and then pour it into a bucked with detergent and get the best of both worlds?
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RealBowler

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Re: Cheap oil extraction?
« Reply #14 on: May 27, 2010, 01:58:11 PM »
Do whatever you want.  I keep my balls in the trunk.  Usually keep them there the entire season.  It's hot at the beginning of the season and I've had a couple of balls sweat out oil.  I've had other balls that didn't seem to get hot at all.  In the winter they stay out there and get cold.  Never had an issue with any of them, although in the winter it seems the balls don't react as much until they warm up.

I've done the hot water bath and gotten good results on some balls and no results on others.

Remember to use a slow process on the balls to avoid cracking.  You don't want to introduce a large temperature change.  I've often wondered what would happen if you took a cold ball and dropped it in a bucket of hot water, or if you took a hot ball and put it in a bucket of ice water.


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