Part of the reason why you are seeing "dead marks" om the balls after you run them through the machine is the balls spin on one axis so the entire surface of the ball isn't coming ion contact with a cleaning surface. The machine is supposed to pause and change direction which is supposed to...
How long had the balls gone without being cleaned? What kind of pocket liners do you have? I run mine in the polisher after the 2nd or 3rd session. I don't get marks on my balls at all.
I've got a couple sets. These are made with Vigma's polymerized resin compound known as Kobo resin. I'm not sure if they use other resign compounds on their other sets. You'd have to check their website (www.vigma.com). I don't play with these much at all but they do play fine. The Zig Zags...
Saved you a trip. The whole block was slated to be razed a while back. Honestly, I was surprised to still see it there on Google Maps. Curious what happened to the development plans.
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