How to Clean Your Bowling Ball for Peak Performance
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- Опубліковано 10 січ 2025
- Similar to your skin, the surface of a bowling ball has pores that need to breathe in order to get the proper reaction on the lane. Each time you throw a bowling ball your ball picks up oil, dirt and dust that clogs the pores and neutralizes its ability to grip the lane. That’s why it’s essential to know how to clean a bowling ball so your equipment performs at its best, all of the time.
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Scott Pohl, owner of On Track Pro Shop, demonstrates how to remove oil from shiny and dull bowling balls.
Storm’s Reacta Wipes rejuvenate both shiny and dull bowling balls while restoring tackiness. 20 disposable wipes come in a zip lock package and you can clean multiple bowling balls with one wipe. For best results, apply after every time you bowl.
PowerHouse Clean n’ Dull removes oil, dirt and belt marks from a dull (strong) bowling ball’s surface.
Apply a dime size portion onto your bowling ball. Evenly wipe the entire ball with a paper towel spreading the cleaner around the ball until it appears damp.
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Wipe your fingers over the ball and you’ll discover that it is tacky or almost sticky to the touch.
After application, your bowling ball will better grip the lane because the cleaner revitalizes the natural track on the bowling ball.
For best results, apply after every time you bowl. Kegel’s Revive decreases the attraction of lane conditioner to the ball’s surface. This in turn, reduces the amount of conditioner that can be absorbed into the cover. Since oil attracts dirt, this also reduces dirt buildup.
Apply a couple of sprays to your shiny (weak) bowling ball and wipe the entire ball with a paper towel.
Spread it around the entire surface of the bowling ball until you bring back the tacky feel the bowling ball had when it was new.
For best results, apply after everytime you bowl.
These bowling ball cleaners are a great way to keep your bowling balls performing at their best in between resurfacing.
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"Unseal the pouch and take out the wipe"... Thanks! Now I know what I was doing wrong.
Omg. I about fell outta my chair with your comment
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I typically use Reacta Skuff first, the deoiling agent, let it dry; then use Reacta Clean to get the grittiness out and then use 4500 Trucut finish polish afterwards. Let that polish dry then wipe everything off.
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I have 2 balls, one reactive, the other plastic for 10 pin spares. Will the cleaning of my bowling ball cause the reactive ball to hook differently (for instance, less hook on dry lanes) and allow the plastic ball to roll straighter (for instance sometimes when I attempt a ten pin spare my plastic ball will curve a little left at the end and I miss it)? Thank you.
I've used a scotchbrite pad to scuff the ball before and alcohol to clean it.
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How do I know what number pad to use? You said you said a 4000.
Is a bowling ball conditioner needed I have bought multiple products from the CTD bowling site but I saw video of him using a bowling conditioner never used that before just bowling polish, cleaner and sanding bowling ball. I rather have what is needed only.
The conditioner is for the sanding pads so that they last longer
My proshop guy said you could simply use Rubbing Alcohol to clean a reactive ball. This doesn't seem likely to me since that has oil in it. Can this work?
Can I use a sand pad for a reactive ball and which oil should I use?
Yes 👍
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I don't think Abralon or any other abrasive opens up the pores of a ball. The way I understand it is that abrasives roughen the surface but do not remove dirt and oil from the pores. That's what ball cleaners are for.
If you’re taking part of the cover off by sanding it, you’re taking dirt and oil off. 100%.
How come all the cleaners mention a tacky feeling--I've never seen a tacky ball reaction. I can't tell how aggressive a ball is by how tacky it feels.
Use isopropyl alcohol. It’s $1 and last all season.
@@TraumaER alcohol just can't cut through the oil. Wipe a ball off with alcohol and compare it to a good ball cleaner. The ball cleaned with a cleaner will be a little stronger
@@ConquerCollin you might be right, but I've questioned older ball reactions and took them to the pro shop and they tried to bake the oil out of the ball. They come out later and say they couldn't find any oil. My tips from bowling 3 decades and why so few others follow these on their $200-300 balls is beyond me:
(1) Never store bowling balls in the car in cold or direct sunlight. Bring them in the house and stop being lazy.
(2) Clean your balls after bowling. Why put dirty ass balls in the bag and then clean the balls 5 min before league starts the following week? Like that makes no sense. It's like brushing your teeth in the morning and 5 minutes later eating breakfast.
(3) Clean your balls between shots. Don't need to go overboard. Saw some dude last week literally spending 2+ min before each shot cleaning his ball. I mean wtf?
It's that simple.
@@TraumaER I think that's the best advice. I've heard other people say that they've taken their ball to get baked and the guy said no oil was coming out. I dont know what to make of that however as after an hour of bowling how is a spray cleaning going to get all the oil out? A leather pad will almost not even let you spin the ball in your hand it's so aggressively soaking up oil. It really beats out a towel--but you have to wash it regularly. I've also taken a hair dryer to a ball and had oil coming out even on parts that aren't on the track--so I dont know
@@ConquerCollin also keep in mind, some oil is built into the ball into the resin. You take all the moisture and oil out and your ball will crumble LOL.
what is the best way to clean the shammy towels
If you’re just using a microfiber cloth then the washer with regular detergent should be fine, as the main goal is to get out the oil from them.
what to use for urethane?
This link has a list of the cleaning products used. www.nationalbowlingacademy.com/video/how-to-clean-your-bowling-ball-017171/
Tbh guys… rubbing alcohol microfiber cloth. Clean bowling ball. Like new
Rubbing alcohol will clean well, but can also dry out the plasticizers in reactive resin balls.
Grabbed bowling ball from basement, cleaned it with mild soap.
Feels like Kim Jong-un is right off camera holding a weapon mouthing "yes, yes, keep going"
I would be this unenthusiastic as well if Kim Jong-un was forcing me to do videos for revenue money
what country is he in that dimes are that big? 😂
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In very cheap price