Trackball - Bring Back The White?

a restaurant supply place may carry block whitener. it is for cleaning cutting boards and butcher blocks. basically it is really powerful bleachlike stuff. If anything can make a trackball white again that stuff would. It will definitely make your clothes white again, even if they were not white before.

or just try some chlorine for a swimming pool
 
The Centipede trackballs came from the factory in that ugly off-white color. Arcadeshop has the "2 1/4 Snow White Ball" for $8.
 
I went the $5 cue ball route with my 'pede. Exact same size as the original. I think I picked it up at Sports Authority or some local store.
 
Picture of my balls :eek:

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Old yellowed one on the left is the original off-white one. New white one is what I replaced it with. As stated above, Bob Roberts sells both white and off-white.

I like the white better:
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I went the $5 cue ball route with my 'pede. Exact same size as the original. I think I picked it up at Sports Authority or some local store.

So the cue ball is he same size and weight? Can you tell any difference in use??:cool:
 
I like the snow white ball better. I did clean up a snow white ball once by leaving it in a cup of bleach for a few days. It got several shades lighter, but still not like a new snow white ball. You could try that, it's easy enough.

Wade
 
So the cue ball is he same size and weight? Can you tell any difference in use??:cool:

As far as I could tell, the original ball was the same size/weight as a cue ball. There was no difference in play with the cue ball over the original ball. I have also read that they orignally used cue balls in the trackballs.
 
I think I read about Retrobright here. Oxyclean, hydrogen peroxide and sunlight. http://retr0bright.wikispaces.com/ Enough people talk favorably about it to make it seem worth a shot, and supposedly only takes hours.

I haven't tried i yet, but I know I have a faded trackball around here somewhere. I have all the ingredients, minus the sunlight - it's been raining here for several days. I'll give it a shot tomorrow if I can find it and the sun finally comes out.
 
I very much doubt that method would work on a trackball because it's completely different material and MUCH "harder" (The liquid will not penetrate into the ball......Jees this sounds nasty).

There's only one simple solution. Buy a new one.
 
You might be right. It could be that a trackball is not porous enough for it to work. Perhaps, but you don't need to penetrate too deeply, it's only the exposed surface of the plastic that turns brown. In fact, at one point Retrobright was sold as a gel, so I can't imagine it needed to "soak" to get the surface bright again. We'll see, I ready have all of the materials, so it couldn't hurt to try.
 
Look guys, throw it in some bleach for a day or two if you are trying to spruce it up marginally. If you want it to look and play well, please... just by a new ball for $5. Old balls are scratched and rougher than new balls and don't roll as well either.

Wade
 
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