Review: Brillianize Pool Ball Cleaning Fluid
If you own your own table, or you own or run a pool hall, you owe it to yourself to try Brillianize. It’s the nuts. It cleans and polishes pool balls spectacularly without leaving any film or wax buildup.
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When I bought my table about 9 months ago, I bought a set of Aramith Super Pro balls to go with it. I was already familiar with the Aramith Ball Cleaner fluid and I wasn’t particularly happy with it. It left a waxy film on the balls and they seem to stick together on collision for just a hair longer than they should. Wax attracts and holds chalk dust, so the balls will get dirty more quickly. Because the Aramith product does contain wax and abrasives, I didn’t want to use it.
Brillianize is a high grade plastic polish, sold to manufacturers to put a fine finish on their new products, and as a cleaner/polisher for glass and plastic display cases, motorcycle and airplane windshields, and the glass surface of copy machines. It is not specifically sold for cleaning billiard balls, but they are highly polished plastic, and it came highly recommended, so I tried it. It has anti-static properties, also, so it doesn’t attract or hold chalk dust much.
Brillianize is a liquid that comes in 8 and 32 oz. spray bottles, as well as in 1 gallon jugs. I use it by hand, spritzing a little on a terry cloth and rubbing it in for a few seconds. I do all the balls this way, setting the aside for a moment until I finish. Then with a dry cloth I polish them off for another few seconds each. With only occasional cleaning my Aramith Super pros are indistinguishable from brand new. The balls feels very smooth but without any hint of a waxy or oily finish. They seem squeaky clean.
My 8 ounce bottle is a little over half gone, so my $8 investment will easily last a year. Obviously, in a commercial environment the balls will be cleaned much more frequently, and in a machine, some more product will be used. It’s also possible that once the pads in the machine get wet, they’ll do many sets of balls, so it might even uses less product per set. Brillianize is an amazing bargain, and if you buy a gallon, it’s only $30. You can buy direct from the company, or you can use their website to find a local dealer.
The old sets of balls that I got with my used table cleaned up nicely, but don’t have near the gloss of the Aramith Super Pros. I don’t know if they ever did. Maybe they would shine up even better in a ball cleaning machine, I don’t know. Since there doesn’t seem to be any abrasive in Brillianize, the might be as shiny as they’re going to get.
On the AZ Billiards forum there are many who sing the praises of Brillianize, and not a sole has anything bad to say about it. There are other plastic polishes which may be as good, like Nu Finish or Meguiars PlastX, and some people have recommended them, but I have no personal experience with them.
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2 Responses to “Review: Brillianize Pool Ball Cleaning Fluid”
Michael McCafferty
- March 20th, 2010
cool.
i’ll try it.
thanks,
M.
Samm
- March 28th, 2010
YES!!! This stuff is the best!!!
8 bucks for 8 oz is not bad at all. I can’t find it for less than $12.95 outside of the website. It’s well worth the investment.
The great thing is it works with any ball cleaner.
FM – You’ll love it!
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