A couple of time Carl has posted here about Clean and Dull adding a slight polish to a ball when C&D was used with a spinner to clean a ball. To say the least I was highly dubious, because, well, it never happened to me. I have used a spinner + C&D to clean a ball, many times. I never commented negatively; after all, I'm going to contradict Carl without a MAJOR reason.

Well, today, it happened to me. Not with C&D but with Power Wash (Track's, not Ebonite's). I had a ball that had been "mistreated" by a disintegrating rubber belt somewhere in the ball return mechanism. By the end of the 3rd game, I HAD to use cleaner to clean the ball. When I got home, it was still dirty. So I put it on the spinner and sprayed Power Wash on it and use a fresh terry cloth towel to clean it. Sure enough, righ tbefore my eyes, the ball (which with the rubber pieces must have been abraded to around 1500 grit) began to shine.

It wasn't a high gloss shine but it was MOST DEFINITELY a reflective shine.

Son of a gun!

Then to test it, I took some Clean and Tacky to the surface, again with the spinner and a clean terry cloth towel. That made it slightly less reflective, slightly less shiny, but it still had a shine.

So, what in heaven's name is there in a "cleaner" that will put a shine on a resin bowling ball?
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"None are so blind as those who will not see."

I have to try this with my regular cleaner, Legends and see what happens.

From the two balls with which this happened, both had a relatively fine finish on them, around 1500 - 2000 "true" (i.e. not Abralon grit). I'm leaning towards the opinion that this might not happen with 600/800/1000 grit balls.
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"None are so blind as those who will not see."