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My Tee'd Off balls were gross, so I made them nice for $1.29.

By asay

9 years ago

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#1 9 years ago

ARS

asay

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9y 46,050 992

So the balls on my Tee'd Off were pretty nasty.....
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I picked up a bag of plastic practice balls at Walmart - $1.29.
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I had to use a heat gun to separate the nasty balls from their plastic bases. There was still a bunch of glue on them but more heat and it peeled right off. Smelled like burnt cat shit.
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Some paint came off with the glue, so the bases got a coat of metallic silver spray paint. Then I took the balls to the drill press to get some holes in them. You don't need a drill press for this, any drill/dremel or even an exacto knife would work, the hole doesn't have to look pretty since it's covered by the base. Also you may or may not need to put your balls in a vice for this step - my girlfriend was very helpful with that.
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Boom. Much better.
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#2 9 years ago

MAD

Kyrosfear

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Port Matilda, PA

11y 36,900 154 11

Nice one. I will have to do this to mine as well. Thanks for the tip.
-Kyros

#3 9 years ago

ARD

Jean-Luc-Picard

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11y 75,550 4,510 17

I really like your balls.

#4 9 years ago

LTG

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Hopkins, MN

12y 191K 56,985 24 7

You have the whitest balls.

LTG : )™

#5 9 years ago

DAD

TopJimmyCooks

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Wilmington, NC

11y 31,650 232 4

Those balls look a little bigger. I should have done that when I had a Teed for a while.

#6 9 years ago

SHP

labnip

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12y 118K 9,928

seems like an odd number of balls can look good on display

#7 9 years ago

CNY

TheCnyPinGuy

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Sherrill, NY

11y 123K 3,596 10 54 2

FORE !!

well done

FORE LESS

#8 9 years ago

ALX

a2h2z

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Boulogne-billancourt

9y 8,000 7 1

Nicely done! I have exactly the same issue with my balls

One question: is the base (that silver cup) of your balls wacky or does it fit the holes?
My cups are too tight to simply "cover" the bulbs, so it is very hard to take it off without taking the bulb off.

#9 9 years ago

TOM

freddy

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11y 131K 5,653

OP
Quoted from asay:
Also you may or may not need to put your balls in a vice for this step - my girlfriend was very helpful with that.
I bet she has them in a vice!
"Boom. Much better." LOL

#10 9 years ago

ARS

asay

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9y 46,050 992

Quoted from a2h2z:
Nicely done! I have exactly the same issue with my balls
One question: is the base (that silver cup) of your balls wacky or does it fit the holes?
My cups are too tight to simply "cover" the bulbs, so it is very hard to take it off without taking the bulb off.

They fit in the holes very loosely, which is different from a lot of pictures I've seen. In other pictures they look tight so the balls sit much higher. I'm not sure which is "right" and why there is a difference. Also Steve Young has the bases for $2.00/ea.

#11 9 years ago

CJD

forensicd

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Bloomington, IN

9y 49,650 875 7 6

nothing worse than tight balls

#12 9 years ago

M W

mwong168

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durka, durka

#13 9 years ago

DAD

OCD_pinball

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Shorewood, IL

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I just went through this with a restore of a Teed Off. When I first started ,the only way to get the balls OFF, was to seperate the ball from the base, remove the bulb, then the base. The bulb no way would pass through the base. If you had a bulb burn out were you EXPECTED to seperate the ball from it's base to get to the bulb ? I modified some led's and sanded the base a little so now you can pull the ball and base together over the led, but the base is still snug enough to wedge on the lamp socket.

#14 9 years ago

ARS

asay

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9y 46,050 992

Quoted from OCD_pinball:
I just went through this with a restore of a Teed off. When I first started ,the only way to get the balls OFF, was to seperate the ball from the base, remove the bulb, then the base. The bulb no way would pass through the base. If you had a bulb burn out were you EXPECTED to seperate the ball from it's base to get to the bulb ? I modified some led's and sanded the base a little so now you can pull the ball and base together over the led, but the base is still snug enough to wedge on the lamp socket.

Huh, interesting. And they were just #44 bulbs?

#15 9 years ago

KEN

radium

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Covington, LA

10y 93,550 4,153 12 2

I pay a lot more than that to get my balls serviced. Good deal.

#16 9 years ago

JAK

bintzknocker

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11y 59,050 525

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#17 9 years ago

MSL

mikeincali

Los Angeles Pinball

San Pedro, CA

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#18 9 years ago

JCW

LOTR_breath

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Fultondale, AL

11y 125K 5,679 9 101

Looks 100% better! How do you know what burnt cat shit smells like?

#19 9 years ago

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zizzlemeplease

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Alexandria, IN

10y 14,650 836

very clean looking, nice job!

2 years later

#20 6 years ago

TIM

TimBoch

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Farmington, MN

10y 69,800 557 6 10

Just found this thread and found it funny that I replaced my golf balls in the same way, except I didn't use the tees. My originals looked horrible. The tees didn't all fit right, the balls looked like they were put on by a blind guy and the glue was everywhere. There were also 4 different kinds of bulbs lighting them. I think the bag of pratice balls cost about $1.50 from Walmart and the little black sleeves I put in the holes I drilled cost maybe $1 from the local hardware store.

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#21 6 years ago

NEO

CaptainNeo

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Burlington, WI

11y 148K 22,440 37 77 1

looks great and easy to do. Nice work.

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