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Interesting Experiment (Trackball Polishing)

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Witchboard:

My father is in to lapidary as a hobby.  He built a sphere machine to make spheres from stone.  He took a 3" trackball I pulled from the garbage and ran it through the machine with polish for a few minutes.  Cleaned up pretty nice.  I also thought about making a stone trackball and installing it in a housing to see how it looked.

If the picture is not self explanatory, before is on the left and after is on the right.  What do you think?


cholin:

Damn thats pretty good!  Your trackball went from rusty gold to a shiny silver.  Impressed, although it just reminds me of nothing more than a bowling-ball cleaner :)

mahuti:

Yes, that is officially polished.

Witchboard:

The first one we polished was a white 2 1/4" trackball from a Centipede cabinet.  It turned out well, but we didn't take any before shots.  So we tried this one that was much worse than the first.

Kremmit:

You are going to get a lot of polishing requests from people.  And can your dad's sphere machine make spheres out of other materials?  Trackball polishing and custom trackball balls could finance your next MAME cab!

Also, let us know how the stone sphere works- I was thinking about buying one for just that purpose, but was afraid the weight might make it sluggish.  Also wondered if the hardness might hurt your hand.  I'm SURE it would for Golden Tee ball slammers, but would it bother you in regular play, or when you play for a long time?

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