Question about refreshing a Polished ball

[bobforsaken]

As I understand it.. when a Refresh of your bowling ball surface is required, you just do the last step. When a Resurface is needed you do all steps.

For example.. If I want to resurface Marvel Pearl, I would do 500, 1000, 2000, 4000 and then Polish. With a refresh, however, I've received some contradictory information. When refreshing a polished ball do I just apply the Polish again, or do I need to go down to 4000, and then Polish again?

Thanks

[bowl1820]

As I understand it.. when a Refresh of your bowling ball surface is required, you just do the last step. When a Resurface is needed you do all steps.

For example.. If I want to resurface Marvel Pearl, I would do 500, 1000, 2000, 4000 and then Polish. With a refresh, however, I've received some contradictory information. When refreshing a polished ball do I just apply the Polish again, or do I need to go down to 4000, and then Polish again?

Thanks

According to Storms recommendations, you do touch ups with just the final step (about every 20 games) and resurfaces with all the steps.

But if I was doing a quick touch up, I would do the 4000 and then polish.

Because the underlying grit beneath the polish affects the final surface. If you just "polished" a worn ball, You wouldn't really know what grit that worn area is.

So you'd want to touch up the underlying "grit" also, before polishing it to.

[bobforsaken]

According to Storms recommendations, you do touch ups with just the final step (about every 20 games) and resurfaces with all the steps.

But if I was doing a quick touch up, I would do the 4000 and then polish.

Because the underlying grit beneath the polish affects the final surface. If you just "polished" a worn ball, You wouldn't really know what grit that worn area is.

So you'd want to touch up the underlying "grit" also, before polishing it to.

That is kind of what I thought.. I use Storm's Step Two for Polish, but I also have some Reacta Shine which they recommend applying after every session. After doing that a few times my ball seemed to be getting more and more angular to the point I couldn't use it on the fresh. Tonight I took it back to 4000 and applied step 2. Hopefully I'll get that great reaction that makes the Marvel Pearl my favorite ball.

[bobforsaken]

Thx bowl1820

[bowl1820]

Thx bowl1820

Your Welcome.


Note: Unless you are just in a hurry, it wouldn't hurt to do all the steps.

A true "Resurface" is where you remove all the track, nicks, gouges and surface blemishes to make a ball look like new again. That's not done that often.

Just doing all the steps, without trying to remove all the surface blemishes to make a ball look like new again would be more of just a refresh.

Which would be more than a touch up but less than a Resurface.

[bobforsaken]

I did a resurface not too long ago. I just want by to refresh every week (probably about 15 games)... maybe monthly resurface for my heavy use balls

[Mgower]

I didn't know any of this. I have done the hot water oil cleaning but nothing else. Is this something you can do at home or should a PSO do it?

Thanks for the help.

[vdubtx]

I didn't know any of this. I have done the hot water oil cleaning but nothing else. Is this something you can do at home or should a PSO do it?

Thanks for the help.

You would need a ball spinner and Abralon/Siaair pads to do a resurface or touch ups. You could do by hand, but that is a lot of effort to resurface a ball. Your PSO can certainly do a resurface for you. They may even have a Haus machine which will do a resurface better than pretty much anyone with a spinner can do.

[Mgower]

Thanks for the help!

[Ptnomore]

If you do a top step refresh, be sure to do it LIGHTLY. Too many folks take a polished ball, and hit with 4000 for too long, too hard, and it destroys the deeper cuts below, and thus destroys the ball reaction. I learned this the hard way, and had many discussions with team mates and league bowlers about this. Very light pressure, no more than 10-15seconds, 4 sides, then LIGHT polish. If you over do it with the polish, you're erasing the 4000 grit cuts you just put in it. When you touch the surface of the ball, you are going for ball reaction, not ball appearance.

And keep tabs on anything you do to your ball. That way if you adjust or otherwise "freshen" the surface, and it goes straight, burns up, hooks to the next lane, etc, you know what you did and can make an educated adjustment.

I use a spinner, and for MY 4000 grit polished ball, what I found returns it to close to OOB on a refresh, is actually a light hit with 2000, then polish.

And on a resurface, I skip the intermediate steps. From a HEAVY pressure 500, go straight to 4000 LIGHTLY, then polish. The intermediate steps remove too much of the deep 500 grooves, and the ball skids.