"Gold Crown" Ball Polisher

Here's what I see. In the first video I'm looking at the 1 on the 1 ball. It is visible for almost the entire video, only disappearing briefly about twice before returning to it's regular wobble. I would have to say the portion of the ball with the 1 on it is not getting polished much at all. Maybe put a smudge of pocket rubber on it to see if it comes off. In the second video I'm not seeing that, but it is hard to tell. What I would do is put all the balls in the polisher with the numbers facing straight up so it will be easier to see what is going on and run the two videos again.
 
Dan White said:
Here's what I see. In the first video I'm looking at the 1 on the 1 ball. It is visible for almost the entire video, only disappearing briefly about twice before returning to it's regular wobble. I would have to say the portion of the ball with the 1 on it is not getting polished much at all. Maybe put a smudge of pocket rubber on it to see if it comes off. In the second video I'm not seeing that, but it is hard to tell. What I would do is put all the balls in the polisher with the numbers facing straight up so it will be easier to see what is going on and run the two videos again.
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You’re going to get in trouble now.

This is a problem with all the ball machines. People talk about why scuff marks don’t always come out and they have to hand rub the pocket marks off the balls a lot.

It’s not hard to put all striped balls in any machine and put an X on the white part of the ball with a dry erase maker or a grease pencil and just run it for a minute each way and see what happens.

Slo motion doesn’t lie about what’s happening.


All this info is causing me to make a way better machine, way less expensive, that spins a lot less than any other unit.

So far, I’m experimenting using a ceiling fan motor with a dimmer inside of a square plastic milk crate. Can’t spend much time on it but when I do…😉

If there was money in it 🤷🏻‍♂️
 
stevelomako said:
You’re going to get in trouble now.

This is a problem with all the ball machines. People talk about why scuff marks don’t always come out and they have to hand rub the pocket marks off the balls a lot.

It’s not hard to put all striped balls in any machine and put an X on the white part of the ball with a dry erase maker or a grease pencil and just run it for a minute each way and see what happens.

Slo motion doesn’t lie about what’s happening.


All this info is causing me to make a way better machine, way less expensive, that spins a lot less than any other unit.

So far, I’m experimenting using a ceiling fan motor with a dimmer inside of a square plastic milk crate. Can’t spend much time on it but when I do…😉

If there was money in it 🤷🏻‍♂️
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If , if, if, talk is cheap😅
 
Couple things here...you are only seeing a 20 second clip of a couple minute cycle. The balls are coming out clean on the entire surface; no "dead" spots. At the end of the day, what I've built (or should I say copied?) is light years better than the bucket polisher I built. It isn't even close and when it is finished, it will complete the Gold Crown theme in my room (which was the ultimate goal): Restored Gold Crown I, custom built Gold Crown I Light, restored Gold Crown Cue Rack.

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rexus31 said:
Couple things here...you are only seeing a 20 second clip of a couple minute cycle. The balls are coming out clean on the entire surface; no "dead" spots. At the end of the day, what I've built (or should I say copied?) is light years better than the bucket polisher I built. It isn't even close and when it is finished, it will complete the Gold Crown theme in my room (which was the ultimate goal): Restored Gold Crown I, custom built Gold Crown I Light, restored Gold Crown Cue Rack.

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It's looks great and you did a great job. And perhaps It'll be fine. My last comment on it was my only caveat, if it's polishing (which is abrasive) any part of the ball more than any other, the balls will eventually become out of round. That's a simple fact. In the clips it seems to be doing that pretty clearly even if it does eventually get to the other areas of the ball. Maybe it'll take decades to get out of round, maybe it'll be such a small amount not be significant. I don't know. Perhaps they're all flawed in the same way and no one cares. I'm an engineer, machinist, College level professor and...a little OCD (to make it worse) and it would bother me knowing that and I'd have to fix it. Lol. But I'm also nobody of importance. ;)

If your happy, and you should be, enjoy the fruit of your labor. Room looks great.
 
RRfireblade said:
It's looks great and you did a great job. And perhaps It'll be fine. My last comment on it was my only caveat, if it's polishing (which is abrasive) any part of the ball more than any other, the balls will eventually become out of round. That's a simple fact. In the clips it seems to be doing that pretty clearly even if it does eventually get to the other areas of the ball. Maybe it'll take decades to get out of round, maybe it'll be such a small amount not be significant. I don't know. Perhaps they're all flawed in the same way and no one cares. I'm an engineer, machinist, College level professor and...a little OCD (to make it worse) and it would bother me knowing that and I'd have to fix it. Lol. But I'm also nobody of importance. ;)

If your happy, and you should be, enjoy the fruit of your labor. Room looks great.
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Thanks. Your points are valid and I wonder exactly how long it would take to wear flat spots on the balls. I do think the entire curcumfrence of the balls are making contact with the side wall, the sprocket and the platter so that's why the entire surface is getting cleaned. Like I said in my last post, it's much improved over the bucket polisher I made.
 
RRfireblade said:
It's looks great and you did a great job. And perhaps It'll be fine. My last comment on it was my only caveat, if it's polishing (which is abrasive) any part of the ball more than any other, the balls will eventually become out of round. That's a simple fact. In the clips it seems to be doing that pretty clearly even if it does eventually get to the other areas of the ball. Maybe it'll take decades to get out of round, maybe it'll be such a small amount not be significant. I don't know. Perhaps they're all flawed in the same way and no one cares. I'm an engineer, machinist, College level professor and...a little OCD (to make it worse) and it would bother me knowing that and I'd have to fix it. Lol. But I'm also nobody of importance. ;)

If your happy, and you should be, enjoy the fruit of your labor. Room looks great.
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Funny you should mention engineer, because is say about 70% of the work I dix was designed by engineers who've never had to work on of fix what they've designed😅🤣😂

PS, and I only have a 10th grade education 😇
 
Also worth noting: I really ran it through the paces yesterday. A buddy of mine who runs a monthly 32 player torunament locally brought over his 9 sets of balls he uses for the event, which is today. The machine pretty much ran non stop for the better part of 1.5 hours without a hitch and left his very dirty balls shiny and ready for another day of play.
 
rexus31 said:
Also worth noting: I really ran it through the paces yesterday. A buddy of mine who runs a monthly 32 player torunament locally brought over his 9 sets of balls he uses for the event, which is today. The machine pretty much ran non stop for the better part of 1.5 hours without a hitch and left his very dirty balls shiny and ready for another day of play.
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Anyone with a GC table would love to have what you did.

If you ever sold it you could get a g-note easy.
 
RRfireblade said:
It's looks great and you did a great job. And perhaps It'll be fine. My last comment on it was my only caveat, if it's polishing (which is abrasive) any part of the ball more than any other, the balls will eventually become out of round. That's a simple fact. In the clips it seems to be doing that pretty clearly even if it does eventually get to the other areas of the ball. Maybe it'll take decades to get out of round, maybe it'll be such a small amount not be significant. I don't know. Perhaps they're all flawed in the same way and no one cares. I'm an engineer, machinist, College level professor and...a little OCD (to make it worse) and it would bother me knowing that and I'd have to fix it. Lol. But I'm also nobody of importance. ;)

If your happy, and you should be, enjoy the fruit of your labor. Room looks great.
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realkingcobra said:
Funny you should mention engineer, because is say about 70% of the work I dix was designed by engineers who've never had to work on of fix what they've designed😅🤣😂

PS, and I only have a 10th grade education 😇
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Glen,
Who would have ever guessed you only had a 10th grade education by what you just wrote here.

🤦🏻‍♂️

Hey! You’re not Joe Biden’s speech writer by any chance are you?
 
RRfireblade said:
It's looks great and you did a great job. And perhaps It'll be fine. My last comment on it was my only caveat, if it's polishing (which is abrasive) any part of the ball more than any other, the balls will eventually become out of round. That's a simple fact. In the clips it seems to be doing that pretty clearly even if it does eventually get to the other areas of the ball. Maybe it'll take decades to get out of round, maybe it'll be such a small amount not be significant. I don't know. Perhaps they're all flawed in the same way and no one cares. I'm an engineer, machinist, College level professor and...a little OCD (to make it worse) and it would bother me knowing that and I'd have to fix it. Lol. But I'm also nobody of importance. ;)

If your happy, and you should be, enjoy the fruit of your labor. Room looks great.
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There's all kinds of engineers with all kinds of different backgrounds, what does your engineer background focus on?
 
How about back to this guys polisher????????????? Nobody gives a shit who did/didn't go to college. Just sayin'.
 
stevelomako said:
Where are you at on that list?

😱😉😄😄😆😆

They did make it through grade school though. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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You know what, the funny thing is, this thread is all about the ball polisher the OP built, COMPLEMENTING just ONE of my inventions, and seems like every one posting in this thread loves it, as they should because unlike the OP here, you guys are nothing but a bunch of talk that has done what? I'm not even upset he used my design as the basis of building his own ball polisher, heck I've even talked with him about the things he was doing to help him make sure he'd be happy with it when he was done. And YOU have WHAT to provide, with YOUR education?? Educated TROLL is all I see from you!
 
realkingcobra said:
You know what, the funny thing is, this thread is all about the ball polisher the OP built, COMPLEMENTING just ONE of my inventions, and seems like every one posting in this thread loves it, as they should because unlike the OP here, you guys are nothing but a bunch of talk that has done what? I'm not even upset he used my design as the basis of building his own ball polisher, heck I've even talked with him about the things he was doing to help him make sure he'd be happy with when he was done. And YOU have WHAT to provide, with YOUR education??
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Ya you kinda stunk this thread up like you did the Jayson Shaw thread.

All about you…that you’re not upset with him that he used a motor that spins a piece of wood around in a circle…you’re such a peach…that was very high and mighty of you to allow him to do that.


The guy made a great piece that compliments his table.


See you at another thread, not going any farther on this one with you.
 
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