Operating Suggestions and Comments
* The diamond grits wheels may have some bowling ball residue on them. This is due to final test. The test makes sure they are ready for use immediately but the more you use the wheels the better they will get and expose more diamond. New wheels will cut very well removing the cover rapidly. This surface finish should buff out in a reasonable time with the buffing pads. You are supplied with the best all around grit. It will resurface a typical tacked resin or plastic ball in 4-12 minutes. On your harder urethane, it could run as long as 30 minutes. Example: a Red or Black urethane Hammer will resurface very equivalent to a resin, but a Black U Dot much longer.
* Haus Specialty does not recommend ever resurfacing rubber bowling balls on this machine. Sell your customer a new reactive resin.
* Encourage more frequent resurfacings, instead of your customer doing it when the track is severely worn and inconsistent. Your customer’s performance will improve. Three moderate tracks removed over a year will remove less material than 1 huge track. Suggestion: Slightly reduce price in refinishing light to moderate and raise pricing for moderate to severely worn tracks. Or, possibly have a yearly package deal.
* The resurfacing wheels are very rigid. This will only allow the highest part of the ball to be removed. This is a major contributor as to why the machine will keep balls round to manufactures specs or bring a ball back into round. If you resurface a ball and an area has not been touched, it is simply the lowest part of the ball. You will find this mostly around plugged holes and track area on previous resurfaced balls.
* If a ball has been resurfaced many times by hand, it will be out of round. It will take 2 or more resurfaces on the machine before it will bring the ball back in round. Typically .005-.01 of an inch is removed per resurfacing. It will tend to have very good smooth random motion. A ball that has many hand resurfaces will have good random motion but tend to jump and flip much more. This is fine; it won’t hurt the machine but it will tell you that it is probably out of round. Maximum ball diameter is 8.595 and minimum diameter is 8.500 allowing up to 20 resurfacing for moderate tracks.
* After a short period of time the operator should be able to know how long a ball will take by the depth of the track and type of ball.