Diamond Home Ball Polisher - 1st!

[Masirib5]

Brian at Diamond said I got the first unit. It is really great. I just received it along with my new 9 foot Diamond table light.

It was expensive to ship everything and I'm short on funds right now but happy I did it!

The light was shipped and I have to put it together and hang it. I'm looking forward to the challenge!

--Jeff

 

[BWTadpole]

Congrats on the new equipment!

We have one like this where I work, double sized to take care of a full set of balls all at once. We wax them on one side and polish on the other. Makes cleaning the 20 sets of balls like clockwork.

Oh yeah, FIRST!

 

[billiardshot]

Thank! Masirib5 for showing photo of Diamond New Home Ball Polisher.
Maybe now RealKingCobra [Glen] will share more information on the Polisher, including its cost.

 

[Masirib5]

Price that I paid

I paid $450. And I believe that Brian at Diamond said it was basically the single platter version of their commercial ball polisher. Expensive but it should last for ever.

I polished my set of balls a few minutes ago and just used a dab of Aramith ball polish on each ball and let it run for a couple minutes and they came out perfect without having to do two steps.

It is really well built and looks nice! I beleive that the Real King Cobra designed the original Diamond ball polisher and this is the same design.

Diamond Billiard Products are the nuts!

 

[TXsouthpaw]

450 is kinda pricey. U could get a ballstar for less than that. Probably cost 50 to make, but you slap a diamond logo on it and mark it way up.

 

[BWTadpole]

450 is kinda pricey. U could get a ballstar for less than that. Probably cost 50 to make, but you slap a diamond logo on it and mark it way up.

Reliability, presentation, guaranteed performance, ease of use and relatively quiet compared to the other ball cleaners. This doesn't rattle or move side to side like I've seen a Ballstar do.

 

[Mark Griffin]

Diamond Ball Polisher

In response to TXSouthpaw:

A ballstar ball cleaner - which is plastic and really not very commercial - is between $400 and $450 on several internet sites. The Diamond is so much better you cannot compare them.

The motor alone costs a lot more than $50. I cannot tell you the exact costs but guarantee they are way over what you think they are. The unit is all carrier bearings to insure a quiet - heat free operation. The Diamond products are one of the best values in the billiard industry.

I get upset with crazy remarks - please only state facts if you know them, and you obviously don't know what you are talking about.

Mark Griffin, partner
Diamond Billiard Products

 

[TXsouthpaw]

In response to TXSouthpaw:

A ballstar ball cleaner - which is plastic and really not very commercial - is between $400 and $450 on several internet sites. The Diamond is so much better you cannot compare them.

The motor alone costs a lot more than $50. I cannot tell you the exact costs but guarantee they are way over what you think they are. The unit is all carrier bearings to insure a quiet - heat free operation. The Diamond products are one of the best values in the billiard industry.

I get upset with crazy remarks - please only state facts if you know them, and you obviously don't know what you are talking about.

Mark Griffin, partner
Diamond Billiard Products

calm down mark. I was gonna get one anyways, ive just been waiting forever for the home version to come out. I was just hoping itd be a little cheaper. Ill report back with an unbiased opinion once i get to try it out.

 

[TXsouthpaw]

Reliability, presentation, guaranteed performance, ease of use and relatively quiet compared to the other ball cleaners. This doesn't rattle or move side to side like I've seen a Ballstar do.

and how do you know anything about its reliability and perfromance. It just came out.

 

[Fatboy]

its a Mini Me!!!!!


All bullshit aside I have the regular commercial model b/c I have lots of sets of balls comming and going, and my own too-so thats why I have the big one. I wish everything I owned worked as good as my Diamond Ball Polisher!!!! On the square I never thought you could polish balls like it does, I have polished cheap balls, up to old yellow Centennials and it makes it old balls look new. It makes a good chair for my fat ass too, its under the A/C vent in my pool room so I like to sit on it under the A/C.

 

[sunnyday]

and how do you know anything about its reliability and perfromance. It just came out.

The Diamond Ball Polisher has been around for a while. This model is exactly half of the original which was designed for commercial use. The commercial model has side by side motor with a tray.

The home model is same quality, performance and made from same materials. Only it's just one motor, one tray.

S.

 

[TXsouthpaw]

The Diamond Ball Polisher has been around for a while. This model is exactly half of the original which was designed for commercial use. The commercial model has side by side motor with a tray.

The home model is same quality, performance and made from same materials. Only it's just one motor, one tray.

S.

i know the commercial one has been out for a while. I was speaking specifically about the home version

 

[sunnyday]

i know the commercial one has been out for a while. I was speaking specifically about the home version

Like I said in my first post... the home version is same as the commercial version. Just smaller. Made from same material, same motor, same design and concept. Home version fits 8 balls in one tray and commercial version fits 16 balls in two trays...

What do you not understand?

S.

 

[n10spool]

I have had the larger version for over a year now and the only prblem I have had with it was on one of the ball inserts/ seperaters would have a ball get stuck and not spin freely. I talked to Glen he told me to replace the the carpet insert to a thicker one since I have been useing it alot and the new carpet took care of the only headache I had with the machine. All the other ball cleaners if you want to call them that I had way to many problems or uneven cleanings over and over or balls popping out and getting lodged against the plastic and getting marked up.

I drove 2 hours to meet glen the first time and see this machine in action and it was the best $100 in gas I ever spent. I wish I had bought 2 of them @ that time.

My Diamond Ball polisher is always in my truck when ever I go out to play pool or work on a table someone always wants to know the best way to clean thiers balls. I just about have a full route just for table upkeeps in bars and houses Moose and Elks clubs.


Thanks to person or person's responsible for its production..

Craig

 

[TXsouthpaw]

What do you not understand?

S.

What I do no understand is why it took so long to come out with the home version.

If all they did was cut the commercial on in half it couldve came out at the same time. Theres gotta be some differences.

 

[sunnyday]

What I do no understand is why it took so long to come out with the home version.

If all they did was cut the commercial on in half it couldve came out at the same time. Theres gotta be some differences.

Diamond Products were initially all geared toward commercial use. Demands for a smaller and cheaper "Home Version-Ball Cleaner" was astounding. So, voala! Diamond takes a shot at home products.

S.

 

[Fatboy]

What I do no understand is why it took so long to come out with the home version.

If all they did was cut the commercial on in half it couldve came out at the same time. Theres gotta be some differences.

here is the deal, Daimond has alot of things going on, balls in the air you might say. Like any manufactor they are going to spent their time, resources on whats going to make them the most $$$$, and it aint home model ball polishers, its their core business tables the 7' product is going great as is the 9' product, then the Derby is a huge production and takes alot of their time everywhere. There are only so many hours in the day and a $450 retail machine they are making probably $200-$250 on is way down on the list of prioritys, dont you make the highest and best use of your time? I do most people do. There is alot that goes into product devlopment at their level, they have to be perfect imagine the liability if they made 500 units and there was a problem, and 500 units(i dont think there is a 500 unit market anyways) at $200 each is only $100,000 which is nothing for a company their size, it pays the electric bill for a few months or a small piece of their workmans comp. Believe me the home polisher may be more important to us than it is them.

best regards, respect

eric

 

[manwon]

Thank! Masirib5 for showing photo of Diamond New Home Ball Polisher.
Maybe now RealKingCobra [Glen] will share more information on the Polisher, including its cost.

That should not be a problem, since he invented the thing in the first place!!:smile:

 

[manwon]

In response to TXSouthpaw:

A ballstar ball cleaner - which is plastic and really not very commercial - is between $400 and $450 on several internet sites. The Diamond is so much better you cannot compare them.

The motor alone costs a lot more than $50. I cannot tell you the exact costs but guarantee they are way over what you think they are. The unit is all carrier bearings to insure a quiet - heat free operation. The Diamond products are one of the best values in the billiard industry.

I get upset with crazy remarks - please only state facts if you know them, and you obviously don't know what you are talking about.

Mark Griffin, partner
Diamond Billiard Products

Hello Mark, I own both the Diamond double unit and the Ball Star unit. The only problem I have with the Diamond unit is using Wax to polish the balls. I wish you guys would come up with a liquid non-wax cleaner and polish. The Ball Star cleaning solution is some great stuff and I have used it with my Diamond Polisher and it works great. While the Ball Star doesn't compare when it comes to speed, they do a great over all job, and mine has been used for 4 years now in pool room with no problems.

Thanks Mark, I will wait for your comments, on the cleaner.

 

[BWTadpole]

and how do you know anything about its reliability and perfromance. It just came out.

Like I said in my first post on this thread, I use the commercial version of this ball cleaner. Provided that they didn't make an Edsel out of a Ferrari, I think they'd do the same.