Snooker Balls. polishing.

[MikeWooldridge]

Nail varnish remover on your balls ...........

don't knock it till you've tried it

[MikeWooldridge]

[QUOTE=barracuda911;326138]Aramith Tournament Champions.
QUOTE]

100% agree. there are no others to consider.

[Watford]

Same for pool only buy Aramith!

[drlog147]

Aramith Tournament Champions.
ADR147 or Bitter should be able to sell you a set?

how much would these set me back any body got a quote

[bongo]

Aramith Tournament Champion Snooker balls. Depending on where you purchase them from, you can get a new genuine set in prices between £85 and £125. Well worth the buy and by far the cheapest in the 'long run'.

Have a look at www.aramith.com.

[drlog147]

new genuine set!!!!!
does that mean there are fakes around

[bongo]

does that mean there are fakes around

Yes, some manufactures think it is cheaper to produce lighter balls, but they chip quickly, fade easily, need replacing quicker, and they are the wrong weight for a decent game. They react strangely and often the white is slightly smaller and lighter, which means strange reactions. They are sometimes made of a bad matieral too.

Snooker balls should be replaced after 5 years of club use as a guide. And two cue balls should be used. One cue ball then after 2 and a half years or so, use a different one. Just as a guide though.

bongo

[ADR147]

new genuine set!!!!!
does that mean there are fakes around

yes lots.

[bonoman1970]

polishing your balls!

Well just try polishing the cue ball really well with furniture polish like Mr Sheen,for example ,and just see how much spin you can put on the white, you will be fizzing it around the table like Ronnie O'Sullivan on ecstacy!!!

[senga147]

sales@taysidesnooker.co.uk can supply a new set for £ 89-00

[dimplez]

How about using a self made polisher, a plastic bucket with a car polisher on the bottom of bucket, glue some carpet on the sides of bucket to prevent scratches, throw in 5-6 balls, add some car wax and turn the polisher on for 2-3 mins. I have seen that on youtube and gave it a try. The balls came out really shiny, just wiped them with a clean dry cloth. Does anyone know if it could damage the balls because of the wax or the spinning?

[bongo]

How about using a self made polisher, a plastic bucket with a car polisher on the bottom of bucket, glue some carpet on the sides of bucket to prevent scratches, throw in 5-6 balls, add some car wax and turn the polisher on for 2-3 mins. I have seen that on youtube and gave it a try. The balls came out really shiny, just wiped them with a clean dry cloth. Does anyone know if it could damage the balls because of the wax or the spinning?

It may work, if I were you though. I would stick to the simple Aramith Ball Cleaner and Aramith Ball Cleaning Cloth.

It shows how to use them here.

[inevermissblue]

Ball Cleaning.

Can any of us try to come up with a better/quicker method or device to clean the balls ready to play? I have got to the stage now where i am alot more eager to play if i know that the balls have been polished(except the cueball). The ball response you get from a freshly cleaned set makes it much more enjoyable. I would like to devise something that firstly cleans them and then polishes them ready for play.
I regularly clean our tables at our club prior to matches and don't always have enough time to clean the balls before people start to arrive ready for a practise. I think that this would be a very interesting challenge for us, unless one of you out there already managed this! (EXCLUDING THE ORBITAL SANDER IN BUCKET OPTION!).:snooker: :snooker: :snooker:

[DandyA]

I think this is a good question ... last Xmas I treated myself to a set of Aramith Tournament Champions - £89 from www.CraftsmanCues.com ...

And nice balls they are too even though I'm only a beginner so I probably can't truly appreciate them ... but certainly much better than the average balls at Riley's Staines where I play ...

I've washed them once so far (in hot soapy water) and they are generally still pretty shiny (we play 3 or 4 frames once a week) ... but certainly you can see the "burn" marks particularly on the black, brown and blue ...

I think Saluc say burn marks are inevitable cos when one ball hits another, the contact temperature can reach something stupid like 1000c or more for a brief moment ...

now 1000c is enough to set fire to a lot of materials but fortunately not Aramith snooker balls ... and to save Noel the trouble I'll do the obvious posting ... someone once sang about the problems with snooker balls ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bB5xL577r4&feature=fvst

=o)

[inevermissblue]

This is a Winner!!!

After months and months of experimenting with different cleaning products i can safetly say that the best thing to clean Aramith Tournament Champion sets is Cif Bathroom cleaner. In essence its a degreaser which is very easy to rinse afterwards leaving no residue or fine unwanted layers of chemicals.
I used a soapy solution once and after rinsing it many times, it still left some sort of layer on the balls and the effects of that were kick after kick after kick.

I only ever clean/polish the cueball with Aramith ball Cleaner,merely as a money saving process(after cleaning).

Since using Cif the Ball sets even seem to have regained their original sparkle without the use of polish. So its just a bit of Cif, thouroughly rinsed and finally buffed with a microfibre cloth of some sort! I can honestly say that it has greatly reduced the amount of kicks to almost nil.

TRY IT AND TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK???