First off, if your urethane ball is thrown on a path with enough oil to make the ball "slimy' then why are you using urethane?56bird wrote:There is “clean” and there is *clean*. One thing I dislike about urethane is the way the ball would get “slimy” all over after less than a game. No amount of wiping with a dry towel made this go away. This is a ball with a near-zero absorption rate.
My response was to clean every few shots to a game with a “legal during” cleaner.
Then over here we have Hickman saying we should clean with a legal-during cleaner before every shot, reactive or no (lol)
USBC has banned the use of legal-during cleaners during competition as of the 2020 new rules. Dry towels only. That telling you anything?
Yes you are removing some oil with your towel but you’re also spreading it around. You’re not getting it all. The ball does the rest of the work, and absorption rate describes how efficiently it does this.
Urethane is for when there is little oil on your preferred line.
Likewise why do bowlers sand a urethane to a dull finish with a core that makes the ball flare?
As for Hickman, I'm assuming that is a person who is in the business of selling cleaners.
USBC banning "legal" cleaners tells me one of two things.
Either USBC has documented enough cheating of bowlers using illegal cleaners put into containers labeled as legal, or some influential "cry babies" got into USBC's ear about the potential for there to be cheaters.
Either way, rather than punish actual violators USBC decided that the "children" can't seem to play nice with the toys provided, so they take the toys away,
While on the topic of strange USBC decisions.
What is the purpose of not being allowed to sand or polish a ball during competition.
There is no unfair advantage if everyone is allowed to do it.
By making it illegal, the unfair advantage goes to the guy who can afford to buy multiple balls and sand them to different levels ahead of. time, then keep them in reserve until the ball they have been using would need a surface adjustment.