My home-made ball polisher.

I know this will either get a few LOL or some :eek: , But I was at the thrift store and found a perfect Ball Polisher container for $1.99
What was it? A Diaper pail:confused: the pictures from my webcam, but hopefully you get the idea. Width : 12" at the top taper to 9 1/4" at the bottom. Length: 14" not icluding the top.
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Here's a coupon if anyone is interested in building a polisher like JoeW. I am guessing that this is the model that he used. Should just be able to print it out and take it to Harbor Freight.
 

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Yep that is the model. They have a newer one now for the price indicated above and it needs to be secured in a slightly different manner.
 
billiardshot said:
Question? I put glue around the cut carpet edge, did anyone else?
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I don't think it's going to be a problem, the balls shouldn't touch the edges of the carpet.
 
mattman said:
Here's a coupon if anyone is interested in building a polisher like JoeW. I am guessing that this is the model that he used. Should just be able to print it out and take it to Harbor Freight.
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Question... Why is that one preferred?

That one only has a 7" polishing surface. The other one is cheaper and has a 10" surface.

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mattman said:
Here are some pics of my home-made ball poslisher. The Ryobi buffer/polisher cost $25 from Home Depot. I had the two buckets and carpet. I polish 8 balls at a time, but it will hold about 12 or so at one time. I got the idea from somebody here on this site....I think it was Strokerz....something like that. I used two buckets instead of one though. The top one is a little smaller. I did this so that the motore could breath. This first time I used it, it worked very well. The balls looked like that were new and fresh out of the box.

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Mattman, you gonna be in Louisville (DCC) this year? If so, could we get together and make one of these ball cleaners?......I live just down the road from the tournament.

DTL
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Cajun_Pool said:
Question... Why is that one preferred?

That one only has a 7" polishing surface. The other one is cheaper and has a 10" surface.

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I am not sure who said that one is preferred. I would not use the 7" model. Mine is a Ryobi and has the 10" polishing surface.

DTL said:
Mattman, you gonna be in Louisville (DCC) this year? If so, could we get together and make one of these ball cleaners?......I live just down the road from the tournament.

DTL
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I would be more than willing to help build a polisher, but I am not making that trip....sorry.
 
Hey Matt

Over in the Room Owner Forum - there's a thread about ball polishers... I directed them to yours as another alternative to the expensive ones. You might want to check out that thread.
 
Blackjack said:
Hey Matt

Over in the Room Owner Forum - there's a thread about ball polishers... I directed them to yours as another alternative to the expensive ones. You might want to check out that thread.
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We'll do...thanks for the head up.

Matt
 
My ball polisher

Holy thread revival Batman.....

I remember this thread from months ago and I kept telling myself I was gonna make one of these so I finally got around to it. My version is similar to Skins but I went as "no frills" as I could. I just drilled holes around the bucket so I could suspend the buffer with plastic ties and used a hole saw and a jigsaw to cut the holes for the power cord and the power switch. I used hot glue to install the carpet.

Pretty easy and pretty effective. The only drawback to this design is that the balls tend to bounce around quite a bit. I am going to put a section of a 2X4 thru the center as a divider and I hope that helps a little.

Thanks for the ideas guys.

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JoeW said:
Someone could make a few bucks here I get a total cost of $70.00 + shipping of maybe $25.00 so if sold for $150.00 the person is making about $25.00 per hr for total time not including advertising etc. If I made one for sale I would probably charge $200.00 becasue I am retired and don't need to make money anymore.


7" Chicago Polisher / Sander $55.00
(Their ad) Strong 9.8 amp, soft-start motor and electronic variable speed give you the power and control that you need for professional polishing and sanding. 1,000 to 3000 RPM for optimum polishing All ball and needle bearing construction for long life Side handle.


http://search.harborfreight.com/cpisearch/web/search.do?keyword=buffer+polisher

Blue bucket in my prior post $6.00

1 3/4" 2' X 4' plywood $6.00

Contact cement $1.00

Scrap rug pieces $2.00

Time to make after making the first one is about one hour

Packing and shipping about on hour.

I think I will add a cardboard top or something to keep the dust out. This would also make it easier to ship


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How big is this bucket that the balls are able to fit in so easily? How big the buffer?
 
Solartje said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKE9_iUOeWA&feature=related

looks to work nicely.

on all those pro ball cleaners, they all seem to use deviders... Is this really more helpfull? do they put carpet around the deviders? i dont get how they work.
The balls seem to spin (aka clean ) more on the bucket with no deviders version
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The downside is with no dividers, there seems to be little scuff marks on the balls. But, you really need to look hard to see them. Personally, I never seen them until somebody on here had metioned them.
 
For the truely lazy man, a quick and dirty ball cleaner

Hey guys, you saw early on in this thread I made a polisher with a 10" Royobi inverted in a taping compound bucket much the same as lot of you guys. Well, I've had it for quite some time and the buffer finally STBed.

I went to get another at Home Depot and Royobi changed the design slightly which would have had me re cutting another taping compound bucked for fit.

Lazy b#$$D that I am, I decided to go to an automotive supply store, pick up a galvanized oil change pan, which is low profile (about 4" or so in height).

I cut a carpet circle to fit the bottom, I cut a 4" wide strip to go around the sides, glued them in with some all pupose panel caulk, and simply threw all 16 balls into the pan.

I also picked up some Plastic Motorcycle Windshield cleaner / polish at the Pep Boys store which I cut to a 50 / 50 mix with water. I put that in a squirt bottle and sprayed it lightly on the balls.

Now I just hold the buffer on the balls by hand for a few minutes while sitting in a chair and its done.

It took less than 15minutes to make. Works fine and I'm too lazy to do the first design one again. :) Thought I'd throw this quick and dirty fast idea out for us lazy guys. :)
 
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