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Easy E

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ball cleaning
« on: April 25, 2007, 05:22:58 AM »
Is it ok to use rubbing alcohol to clean your bowling balls. If not what do you recomend as the best thing to clean them with??
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se7en

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« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2007, 01:42:54 PM »
Yes.

I use a Simple Green (50%) and distilled water (50%) mixture to clean, and follow up with 91% rubbing alcohol after each bowling session.

Some people claim to just mix 50% Simple Green and 50% alcohol. I like how the alcohol evaporates fast and leaves it dry and tacky almost instantly though.

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Martin710

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Re: ball cleaning
« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2007, 09:08:37 AM »
In the centers where I bowl,the best bowlers use Legends/Lane Masters cleaner. It really does a good job.
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charlest

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Re: ball cleaning
« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2007, 07:06:31 PM »
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Is it ok to use rubbing alcohol to clean your bowling balls.


Ok, but useless. Rubbing alcohol, isopropyl alcohol will not clean the oil or most of the dirt off a bowling ball.
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 If not what do you recomend as the best thing to clean them with??


There are many good bowling ball specific cleaners. Among the best I have found are Legends cleaners, Ultimate's Black Magic Rejuvenator, Brunswick's Remove-all, and Neo-Tac's Liquid Nitro.

THE BEST deep cleaner is Track's Clean and Dull and  their Clean and Tacky. Both are INTENSE cleaners that should be used only on heavy oil or once a month after normal cleaners.

Clean your ball after every session BEFORE putting it in the bag or don't bother to clean it at all. "Better late than never" does not apply to ball cleaning.
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JohnP

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Re: ball cleaning
« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2007, 10:41:05 PM »
charlest -- The next time you go to the bowling alley, take some rubbing alcohol and a couple paper towels with you.  Grab any house ball and clean it with the alcohol, then look at the paper towel.  Granted, alcohol doesn't remove oil that's soaked into a ball, but it takes a lot of surface dirt, belt dressing, and general crud off easily.  --  JohnP
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