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by bowl1820
September 15th, 2012, 4:23 am
Forum: Ball Talk
Topic: Polish
Replies: 28
Views: 3811

Re: Polish

I'm positive it starts off as. To resurface a bowling ball to : Dull finish: Put ball on spinner label up Turn on spinner Use 320 grit sandpaper sand until ball track - major and minor scratches is gone Turn off spinner Turn ball 180* (This would be label down) and repeat process still using 320 Tu...
by bowl1820
September 14th, 2012, 1:22 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Surface
Replies: 2
Views: 671

Re: Surface

If it's any help heres storms steps for 1500 New method: 1500-grit Polished Factory Finish 1. 500-grit Abralon® – Sand firmly for 30 seconds on all four sides. 2. 1000-grit Abralon – Sand lightly for 20 seconds on all four sides. 3. 2000-grit Abralon – Sand lightly for 20 seconds on all four sides. ...
by bowl1820
September 13th, 2012, 11:40 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Precise effects of asym cores?
Replies: 13
Views: 2075

Re: Precise effects of asym cores?

All balls transition the same way, skid, roll, hook. ALL balls are asyms after drilling, but with different differential ratios. Stronger asyms (higher diff. ratios) transition through the hook phase faster, as long as everything else is equal. Read my BTM article on diff. ratio. It's in the Wiki. ...
by bowl1820
September 9th, 2012, 3:26 pm
Forum: General Bowling
Topic: What Now
Replies: 12
Views: 1893

Re: What Now

BTW we are using AMF Reactor ML in a AMF certury silver bullet Is this a AMF House also? AMF have a bad rep. with stuff like lane conditions and being cheap. Okay so your saying you have dry heads and carry down. I believe the conventional wisdom was to go to a harder ball, Like a Pearl to get thro...
by bowl1820
September 9th, 2012, 3:39 am
Forum: General Bowling
Topic: What Now
Replies: 12
Views: 1893

Re: What Now

Okay your wanting a a ball or surface and layout that you can use for the conditions there. In the first part of your post you give the impression that the lanes are too oily. You talk of carrydown, the lanes not getting cleaned good. Making out theres oil all over the place. But then you put in sta...
by bowl1820
September 7th, 2012, 3:20 pm
Forum: General Bowling
Topic: What Now
Replies: 12
Views: 1893

Re: What Now

Going to a lower viscosity would make the lanes slicker, a higher viscosity is more durable.

Proper cleaning is important also, the lane machine should also be checked and serviced. To make sure it's doing it's job.
by bowl1820
September 6th, 2012, 12:14 am
Forum: General Bowling
Topic: Ques. about doing The wiki fit system
Replies: 2
Views: 747

Re: Ques. about doing The wiki fit system

elgavachon wrote: Yes. everything in the wiki under "fitting" is the wiki fit.
Okay thanks.
by bowl1820
September 5th, 2012, 3:32 pm
Forum: General Bowling
Topic: Ques. about doing The wiki fit system
Replies: 2
Views: 747

Ques. about doing The wiki fit system

About the wiki fit that is mentioned here all the time. I'm assuming first the wiki fit is meant to give you a good base fit as a starting place for your grip. The wiki as far as I can see doesn't have just a heading called "wiki fit" with instructions. You know start here->etc.->etc.->fin...
by bowl1820
August 31st, 2012, 9:48 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Kegel kustodian plus questions
Replies: 8
Views: 1871

Re: Kegel kustodian plus questions

Check the Kegel Site and its Pattern Library.

http://www.kegel.net/V3/PatternLibrary.aspx

The site has been up and down lately, so you might have to keep checking it.
by bowl1820
August 25th, 2012, 7:28 pm
Forum: Ball Talk
Topic: Skid Snap Ball for Full Roller
Replies: 10
Views: 2223

Re: Skid Snap Ball for Full Roller

:?: :?: :?: He bowls thumbless and yet throws a full roller? :?: :?: :?:
by bowl1820
August 24th, 2012, 11:21 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Only half the mass of the ball?
Replies: 15
Views: 2477

Re: Only half the mass of the ball?

The main negative about a full roller is that it has 0 axis tilt and thus depends solely on axis rotation for its hook. A semi roller does have over 50% of its mass on the side of the ball towards the hook direction until it loses all its axis tilt. I suspect that's what the writer was trying to sa...
by bowl1820
August 24th, 2012, 11:21 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Only half the mass of the ball?
Replies: 15
Views: 2477

Re: Only half the mass of the ball?

Statement seems like filler to me I'm curious what "turned in to" means. Seems like the editors of the manual missed this personal verbiage. The "turned in to" part makes me think they were maybe trying to say something different and it got phrased badly. Something Like maybe th...
by bowl1820
August 24th, 2012, 2:40 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Only half the mass of the ball?
Replies: 15
Views: 2477

Re: Only half the mass of the ball?

Just in case it makes a difference heres the whole paragraph the quote is from. "The term “full roller” refers to how the bowling ball tracks down the lane. A full roller tracks between the finger holes and the thumbhole, over the full 27-inch circumference of the ball. This is the major reason...
by bowl1820
August 23rd, 2012, 2:16 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Only half the mass of the ball?
Replies: 15
Views: 2477

Only half the mass of the ball?

I was reading in Chapter 7 – Fine Tuning the Physical Game of the bronze cert. manual about a full roller release and read this: "This is the major reason why the full roller is an ineffective delivery in today’s game; only half of the bowling ball’s mass is turned into the pocket , resulting i...
by bowl1820
August 20th, 2012, 2:15 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Ball speed table--comment please
Replies: 11
Views: 2688

Re: Ball speed table--comment please

The problem with measuring speed via stopwatch, is it assumes the ball is only traveling 60 feet. Someone throwing the ball straight at the headpin will show a faster speed, than someone circling the lane, even if they have the same off hand speed. I believe the difference between these two bowlers...
by bowl1820
August 19th, 2012, 1:39 pm
Forum: Ball Talk
Topic: Perfect Scale and Rating Coverstocks
Replies: 9
Views: 3381

Re: Perfect Scale and Rating Coverstocks

Remember though it doesn't have the written review. just the numbers
by bowl1820
August 17th, 2012, 9:09 pm
Forum: General Bowling
Topic: Vacant bowlers - is this idea crazy?
Replies: 14
Views: 4512

Re: Vacant bowlers - is this idea crazy?

Having a vacancy might not hurt a team, but it doesn't help it either. A vacancy is like a bowler who always shoots average. He doesn't have a bad night, but he doesn't have a good one either. As far as the money goes, all the leagues I've ever seen. At the end off the season, the league deducted an...
by bowl1820
August 13th, 2012, 12:37 pm
Forum: The Pro Shop
Topic: What is the (preferred) Drill Sheet Standard
Replies: 8
Views: 2258

Re: What is the (preferred) Drill Sheet Standard

It may be a little cluttered but well organized. What's going on at the bottom left area of the sheet? I'm not sure what that is for. The lower left is where you put your P.A.P. coordinates, as for the Pin-CG-MBP: box I always assumed that was for the layout used. That sheet isn't really meant for ...
by bowl1820
August 12th, 2012, 8:18 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Ball speed table--comment please
Replies: 11
Views: 2688

Re: Ball speed table--comment please

One thing about the stopwatch vs video method. They are measuring two different things. The stopwatch method gives you basically a average speed for the length of the lane. For the ball traveling from the foul line to the head pin. The Wiki video method is giving you the at release speed. Based on t...
by bowl1820
August 12th, 2012, 4:10 pm
Forum: The Pro Shop
Topic: What is the (preferred) Drill Sheet Standard
Replies: 8
Views: 2258

Re: What is the (preferred) Drill Sheet Standard

Here's a blank drill sheet (for righthander , I have a left handed one too if needed) with almost everything on it labeled what goes where.

If it helps

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