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by jaclaz 1426 days ago
Video of the "Ball Washing Machine" (this is actually from the US):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrHvFiePokI

This is UK:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8VjIJuMyiE

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Huh. That goes a lot slower than I would have expected. I wonder at their procedure for getting all the dirty ones out before the freshly-cleaned ones start piling back in.

Not complaining, glad to see them taking hygiene seriously.

The UK video I posted has some details, 15,000 balls per hour doesn't seem that slow to me[1], and still, according to the video, they are putting the clean ones into "netsacks".

Most probably when they have the sacks full there are not that many "dirty" balls remaining in the pit and they can put a separator of some kind across it to start putting back the cleaned ones.

Found the site of the manufacturer of that machine:

https://ball-pool.eu/services/

What I doubt is more that the cleaning is actually done on a weekly basis or so as recommended.

[1] I have no idea on how many balls are in the "average" pit, but the US video is touting 80,000 as if it was an extremely large one