If a ball is dull,

you bowl 12 games with it,

now its dirty (oil, grime, belt marks) - no longer dull.

If you clean it....

it restores its dullness.


I have used this cleaner on polished balls and it does not make them dull.

Mike,

Not sure if its exactly the same thing but its probably close.  Ebonite makes the line of Powerhouse cleaners and abrasives.  In fact Powerhouse used to make (and they still might make) a sort of a liquid sand which I used to use on the particle balls to dull them and clean them.  That stuff definitely had gritty abrasives in it and it was almost like toothpaste with little stones in it.  Now that Ebonite bought Columbia they may have tweaked the old Columbia cleaner and put the Powerhouse name on it and took the smell out of it.  Might have taken the effectiveness out of it also who knows.  I know the stuff you mention was almost like a syrupy liquid and it was slightly orange in color.  This stuff here is probably a similar thing but with the Ebonite Powerhouse name on it now rather than the Columbia name.  I used that Dull liquid too and I don't recall any grit material suspended in the liquid.

HM