Marks on balls

I do know that with Aramith cleaner and if they spin too fast or too long and get warm, the balls will have a residue and tacky feel. As long as they stay cool, don't spin too fast or too long, they seem to come out fine. With that textured look on your close ups, my 1st guess would be a finish build up. Especially when you show a collision mark on your object ball with chalk embedded in it.
While I really don't know what solution you use, I would suggest using way less and clean your cleaner.
 
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Mr Machine said:
Thanks. They are 2 1/2 year old centennials.
I shoot between 10 & 20 racks of straight pool almost everyday.
The balls get wiped down with a microfiber towel after each session and get cleaned ever other week or so with Aramith ball cleaner. By hand until last June.

Is that normal wear?
What to do next?

ETA: it is chalk on the spot. The photo may be misleading so I’ll attach another. To the touch they are wonderfully smooth. I’ve played with old sorry sets and these aren’t like that at all.
Not calling you out but trying to be clear and understand.
Second photo
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I got home sooner than planned.
I would say yours do not have normal wear for 2 1/2 yrs play. Like I mentioned before, my wifes friend had about 15 yrs play on hers and they looked new. May have been a few thousandths undersize, but surface looked new. My picture is my Aramith Premiums with about 4 1/2 yrs use. Little white dots are canned lights.Surface is perfect on mine and they get cleaned every two weeks at most.
I do vacuum my table about every 3 days of play or so.
I am agreeing with others here and feel it is your cleaner, what you use to clean, how you clean, or all of the above.
By your pictures it looks like a wax buildup, but could be your cleaner machine making those remarks.
If its a build up, I'm not about how to suggest how to get it off. Safest way I can think of would be to clean your cleaner pads and run the balls without putting any cleaner on them for the next few months.
Just remember if they are warm when you are done cleaning, I would try slowing it down or just less time.
Good luck, have you told us what solution you are using to clean them?
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I was using a dot of arimith ball cleaner. You could cover it with a dime.
After last night’s posts I wiped them down with a paper towel and 91% alcohol.
After today’s comments I hand rubbed them with the aramith restorer & buffed with a clean mf towel.
Then I cleaned the pads with a sponge & alcohol along with the supplied wire brush.
Then ran the balls with nothing on them.

A big step forward.
Most of the “suede” marks are gone.
Didn’t get to play tonight so we’ll see if they reappear.

Really appreciate all the help. :D
 
Mr Machine said:
I was using a dot of arimith ball cleaner. You could cover it with a dime.
After last night’s posts I wiped them down with a paper towel and 91% alcohol.
After today’s comments I hand rubbed them with the aramith restorer & buffed with a clean mf towel.
Then I cleaned the pads with a sponge & alcohol along with the supplied wire brush.
Then ran the balls with nothing on them.

A big step forward.
Most of the “suede” marks are gone.
Didn’t get to play tonight so we’ll see if they reappear.

Really appreciate all the help. :D
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A dime size dot of Aramith Ball Cleaner per ball is way too much. Cut it back by half or 3/4. You're gumming up the pads and the balls are getting too much product on them and are likley transferring it onto the playing surface, most notably the nose of the cushions.
 
OK. I’m learning stuff. Thanks.
Tips for cleaning the cushion noses?

Woolite & wrung out MF towel, wipe don’t scrub?
 
If you have used enough out of your Aramith cleaner bottle, you might try adding about 10-15% 91% alcohol to it. It gets rid of any tacky feeling after cleaning with full strength. Hopefully you meant that you just used a dot total, not on every ball, as if every ball that would be really excessive and for sure a problem. It will all work out in time. The balls in my picture are a quality level down from yours, and have been used twice as long, but there is a very noticeable difference in their present quality. To be honest I use two drops for every 8 balls at about a 20% dilution with alcohol and it works for me with cleaning every 2 weeks. I clean my carpet every once in awhile, and sometimes just put the balls in the machine without any cleaner for a few minutes. Look forward to seeing how they come out somewhere down the road.
Everybody has their own way of doing it and there are many ways that work, you just have to find what works for you. Our friend uses a Ballstar, and the balls look fantastic, but to me come out too slippery.
 
I have a Diamond table (drop pockets) and immediately installed some padding between the leather pockets and the side wall of the table My primary concern was to reduce the noise when a hard shot hit fell into the pocket and hit the side of the table. But at some of the pockets it also protected the balls from making contact with exposed screw heads just outside of the drop pockets.
 
I did that also on my Professional. Did it for the sound purposes. I used 1/8" or 3/16" craft foam from Walmart. Made quite a difference in the sound.
 
eightandout said:
Any idea what’s causing these little one 16th inch marks on my balls. Could there be something in the table? It’s a blue label diamond about six years old. How about the diamond ball cleaner? The marks look like little comets with a tail on one end.
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I wonder if any of the suggestions worked.
 
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