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Pinbuster

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A league bowling first after 50+ years.
« on: February 15, 2018, 09:26:01 PM »
Showed up at the lanes tonight to bowl and they turned the lanes on for practice.

I was the first on my pair to throw, my ball landed on the lane and it looked like someone had kicked it to the left a foot and it then proceeded to hit the 7 pin.

Everyone else on the pair threw and either guttered in the left channel or got the 7 pin.

I was finally able to get a blue dot to the right of the head pin but it was a struggle and it still started hooking at the 10 foot mark.

Turned out the lane machine had stripped and hadn't put any lane conditioner down on the lane.

They stopped practice and tried to run the lanes but they couldn't the machine to put down any oil.

The league then voted to postpone the league for one week.

I've bowled on some messed up conditions, dry, extreme wet, but this would have been a real challenge if we had gone ahead and bowled.

 

mrwizerd

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Re: A league bowling first after 50+ years.
« Reply #16 on: February 17, 2018, 11:23:10 AM »
My league had the same situation happen on the 1st night of bowling (belt broke on the oil machine) and we postponed until the next week.  I wanted to bowl because I thought we have bowled on other oil machine screwups, but someone pointed out in the rulebook that there has to 3ml of oil on the lane and there wasn't in this case.

Walking E

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Re: A league bowling first after 50+ years.
« Reply #17 on: February 17, 2018, 01:02:30 PM »
Quick, just run to Home Depot and buy a bug sprayer to oil the lanes.  :o

agroves

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Re: A league bowling first after 50+ years.
« Reply #18 on: February 17, 2018, 10:54:41 PM »
Why risk the bad habits that can develop from a night like that?