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Cleaning billiard balls? On the cheap?

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Killbat

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I have a set of billiard balls I borrowed from my grandparents (story unimportant), and I want to clean them. They're old, all marked up and scuffed, and a bit yellow. How much of that can I fix with household chemicals? I don't want to spend any money on actual billiard ball cleaner, and certainly not A billiard ball cleaner. I have chemicals. Oh boy do I have chemicals.

I guess my real question is, what is NOT safe to use. What, if anything, will damage the balls/ruin the polish/etc.?
 
Killbat - I think that perhaps you may have way too much free time on your hands.

If not, have you considered those "ball washing" machines that they have at most golf courses?
 
I have not considered the ball washing machines they have at golf courses, no.

I know this so far. Windex is worthless. Clorox spray cleaner with bleach turns the cue ball brown. CLR makes it yellow again. 😛
 
OK, CLR does a good job removing the spots that were all over the balls, but it does nothing about the yellowing.
Maybe I won't be able to do anything about that?
 
dip em in paint and draw the numbers back in with colored sharpie's. Watch the stripes. They'll never notice. 😀
 
The yellow stain is probably just a natural change in the balls, as it tends to happen to all pool balls...if you have a local pool hall, they should have a machine where you put all the balls in a big circle and it just spins it up and they come out pretty clean and polished. (Technical explanation, I know 😉)
 
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