drawing oil out of a bowling ball cheaply

[foreverincamo]

My pro shop guy gave me this tip. Take your ball and tape over all the holes. Take a five gallon bucket and put about 4 inches of cat litter on the bottom. Drop the ball in, fingers facing downward. Cover the entire ball in cat litter and place the bucket where it's warm. Give it a few hours and pull the ball out and wipe it clean. You can use the same cat litter all season. This will pull the oil out of the ball. What say anyone about this idea?

[bowl1820]

My pro shop guy gave me this tip. Take your ball and tape over all the holes. Take a five gallon bucket and put about 4 inches of cat litter on the bottom. Drop the ball in, fingers facing downward. Cover the entire ball in cat litter and place the bucket where it's warm. Give it a few hours and pull the ball out and wipe it clean. You can use the same cat litter all season. This will pull the oil out of the ball. What say anyone about this idea?

Yeah that's a old trick, I did it years ago.

It's the same principle as the Ebonite Hook Again system.

Takes little longer than a few hours, should leave it for at least a day or as long as you can.

While the warm would help, that cat litter don't warm up fast. Put the lid on the bucket to keep it from drawing in the outside moisture.

Sanding first can help also, it opens the pores up.

The tape over the holes isn't really needed, just point them down anything gets in them. Just dump it out and blow out the holes and wipe.

[fortheloveofbowling]

Check out this video on youtube: homemade bowling ball oven. I have not tried this but looks like it works.

[foreverincamo]

My wife left her ball in the trunk on a hot day and when she pulled it out there was a puddle of oil under it.Must be something to heat and getting oil out of a ball

[bowl1820]

Check out this video on youtube: homemade bowling ball oven. I have not tried this but looks like it works.

No video link!

If you go look in the video forum you can find some there.

[Shaneshu87]

i have seen and duplicated a bowling ball oven using a card board box, some duct tape, and a hair dryer.

1. seal one end of box with heat resistant duct tape (not duck tape)
2. place hair dryer nozzle up against box face, preferably closer to the top and horizontal, and trace the nozzle onto the box.
3. using a knife cut out the circle you just traced
4. do the same thing on the opposite side of the box closer to the bottom for a vent hole
5. insert hair dryer into hole and seal it with duct tape.
6 place towel on the "floor" of box.
7 insert bowling ball(s)
8 close flaps as air tight as possible (can use the duct tape, i just place mine up against a wall)
9 turn on hair dryer on high heat for 20-30 minutes.

it would help if you had a food thermometer you could poke through the box to monitor internal temp as you would not want the internal temp to exceed 150 degrees Fahrenheit.
****warning-i did leave the hair dryer running for a bit to long in my last baking, the box caught on fire. bowling balls were not damaged but my wife will not allow me to do this in my house any longer lol****

[rv driver]

My pro shop guy gave me this tip. Take your ball and tape over all the holes. Take a five gallon bucket and put about 4 inches of cat litter on the bottom. Drop the ball in, fingers facing downward. Cover the entire ball in cat litter and place the bucket where it's warm. Give it a few hours and pull the ball out and wipe it clean. You can use the same cat litter all season. This will pull the oil out of the ball. What say anyone about this idea?

Now there's an idea! The Storm Fresh Step. Gravelly texture to grip in the heaviest oil, and it smells like cat poop.

[foreverincamo]

Watched a video on making an oven from s shipping box and hair dryer. Temp controlled with a meat thermometer. I had my DV8 Marauder Mutiny resurfaced the other day. Still waiting to throw it. I'll try the cardboard oven trick once the wife goes shopping someday

[Bunny]

Tried this recently. Seemed to work great and free!

http://www.bowlingboards.com/threads...solar+de-oiler

[Blomer]

I hear from a few people,how they left their ball in their car and it was all greasy and oily. Seems like it would work. A friend nought an oven so he did mine for free. My center charges about $20 for a ball or two for $30.