Whizza pool ball cleaner.
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Not a fan of that setup. There are two issues inherent to the bucket polisher: The balls collide and they only spin on one axis. If you develop at divider for the unit and shake it a couple times during a cycle so the entire surface comes in contact with a cleaning pad, it should work just fine.
Ozone has them for $99.
The video is no doubt unavailable here at the forum as it reads "the owner allowed viewing only on YT".
I think you could either go deeper (= better) with DIY, search for some of the best projects shared at AZB in the past. To get over all the drawbacks knwon and already mentioned here.
Or else, order a cleaning machine from China. Alibaba or AliExpress, whatever is reachable to you. They do pretty awesome job on them balls.
Next step possible, of course, is a Diamond polishing machine, but at the price one could change about 5 Chinese mechanisms I think.
And for those of you that know where the divider forest is or you plan to make your own...
The divider isn't perfectly symmetrical (round). That offset helps the balls to not spin on a single axis.
Did you just buy a piece of foam and cut it? I only clean 5 balls at a time in mine.
That seems expensive for what you get
Never heard this before. The Diamond sprocket is symmetrical. The platter is offset in relation to the opening in the lid which is what causes the balls to spiral. It's go nothing to do with the sprocket.
I know someone, err, something wasn't centered.
I know that the Diamond polisher seems expensive, its a big initial outlay or at least I considered it one when I bought mine for $500 ( I'm afraid to ask the cost now after the plandemic) but I have had to do absolutely nothing but drop balls in and a teeny amount of Aramith cleaner in it to keep all of my new ball sets looking new. It easily outweighed the time and effort it would have cost me to build something of my own and try to iron out any kinks (again, great job Rexus) because I earn $75-$100 per hour working in my shop for other people. I guess it makes sense to carefully weigh out the real life costs to your wallet before deciding on how to polish your balls, but the Diamond polisher seems like it will easily outlive me and is a nice selling feature should I ever decide to bail on pool.
buy styrofoam and cut it.
I don't know about it. We built a three bucket cleaner that worked pretty well. I sold it and I shouldn't have. But essentially bucket one was cleaning the balls, bucket two was waxing and bucket three was polishing.
I put an piece of carpet jutting out from the side to agitate the balls and change the direction and that worked well.
My intention was to build a commercial version but my partner on the project flaked and I let it go.
But all together I think we only had about 100 in the setup and we even built a cart for it.
So you might want want to consider a 2 or 3 bucket solution. At the very least make sure you have an agitator.