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Old 08-03-2005, 11:54 PM   #1
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I tried the new powerball, check this out.

I tried the new Mother's Powerball today on the wheels on my 86. I did a little writeup here:

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Old 08-04-2005, 12:11 AM   #2
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Good write up Joe. I have been wondering about that thing myself. I'll bet that it would do a great job on a wheel that had a bit of shine already....
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Old 08-04-2005, 02:40 AM   #3
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dang that is a great improvement
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Old 08-04-2005, 09:07 AM   #4
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i've been wanting to get one of those but it looked so flimsy. $20 for a ball of foam . did any of the little pieces of foam break off when you used it? it looked to me that if it were to get on the edge of a wheel anywhere that it might come flying apart. i guess i want to know if it seems like a pretty durable product, thanks.
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Old 08-04-2005, 10:34 PM   #5
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Here's a couple of pics I found on another site showing before and after the Powerball....

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Old 08-04-2005, 10:35 PM   #6
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Old 08-04-2005, 10:40 PM   #7
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nice red x's
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Old 08-04-2005, 11:06 PM   #8
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yeah I got nothing.
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Old 08-04-2005, 11:53 PM   #9
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Old 08-05-2005, 12:38 AM   #10
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hey now I can see it. thats weird... that looks pretty dang good. now I wish I had good wheels to use it on lol. all I have is the steel wheels. blah!
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Old 08-05-2005, 09:46 AM   #11
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Quote:
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hey now I can see it. thats weird... that looks pretty dang good. now I wish I had good wheels to use it on lol. all I have is the steel wheels. blah!
Not really. I linked them the first time thinking that would work. When you guys said something, I just saved them to my hard drive then uploaded them to my posts.......
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Old 08-08-2005, 09:49 PM   #12
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Hence the little edit lines...
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Old 08-10-2005, 01:08 AM   #13
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lol.. since this has been here a few days, I am gonna move it over to the review board, so those who may not visit over here can see it also.
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Old 08-10-2005, 04:56 AM   #14
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yeah yeah make fun of the young kid!
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Old 08-10-2005, 11:35 AM   #15
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Looks like that would be great using with California Customs Purple.
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Old 08-12-2005, 10:44 AM   #16
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I have been constantly seeing this product in all the magazines I pick up. The before and after results are pretty staggering - you can do the same amount of polishing in 15 minutes with this thing that would take at least 2 hours with just hand polishing.

The product is said to work really good with trim, valve covers and other things of that nature.
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Old 08-23-2005, 05:21 AM   #17
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My brother bought 2 of them,I guess he wanted a spare.They really are great and work wonders with all different types of polishing compound.It made his wheels look near new again.
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