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Belgarion

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How should I drill my time zone?
« on: October 27, 2003, 07:07:31 PM »
Ball specs -- 15.2lbs 2.3oz top 2-3" pin

Check my profile for my current specs and equipment.  I have my layouts listed and where I would like to see the ball fit.

I would like to see it a bit weaker than my deuce and a bit stronger than my Eraser Particle Pearl (which I plan to shine a little bit more).

Any drilling suggestions would be helpful as I don't really know what to expect out of this ball.  I was thinking rev leverage or something with the pin above the ring with the cg swung out, but do not really know.  Thanks in advance.

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Jeffrevs

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Re: How should I drill my time zone?
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2003, 11:07:41 AM »
Chris,
do you think you'll be overlapping a bit and/or trying to force a ball in there ?

Your arsenal looks good as is, ...to me at least........
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thegame

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Re: How should I drill my time zone?
« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2003, 11:43:26 AM »
Just in my experience, I don't know if it was the ball or the layout I used, the Time Zone was a bit to hard to control for me, in terms of over-under.  I had it drilled with the CG kicked out to the right, and pin next to my ring finger.  This surprised me, since I thought that is usually more of a smooth rolling layout, but I believe on the drill sheet that did provide the sharpest breakpoint angle.  I thought about re-drilling it, and try for something smoother, but decided to put the money toward a new ball instead.  Good luck with yours.
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omegabowler

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Re: How should I drill my time zone?
« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2003, 11:58:40 AM »
I was told by a Brunswick staff guy to make the ellipse parallel to your track to smooth out the backend and take the over/under
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Belgarion

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Re: How should I drill my time zone?
« Reply #4 on: October 28, 2003, 02:01:43 PM »
I am going to end up getting rid of my shooter (its too easy to push through the breakpoint and won't recover) and possibly my icon 300 (don't see that kind of oil any more), so I was kind of hoping this ball would fill a gap, I may drill it up anyway just to see what it will do since I haven't thrown brunswick for awhile and I hate just having new balls laying around!


Omega, wouldnt making the elipse parrallel be kind of like label leverage, because it would roll the pin out to the right?
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omegabowler

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Re: How should I drill my time zone?
« Reply #5 on: October 28, 2003, 02:17:23 PM »
well it's a strong mass bias and I think the layout would be MB on the Val or pap area.

this should tilt the core and make it roll earlier. I hgoing to have mine plugged and try it.

Mine is drilled pin in ring and mb to the right of the thumb. la 60 deg. If I'm off on my release it becomes uncontrollable so I will give it a shot. the ball hits to hard scrap.
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Belgarion

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Re: How should I drill my time zone?
« Reply #6 on: October 28, 2003, 02:54:21 PM »
I don't know if my driller is competent enough to do that(lol), but if he can I will give it a try and let you know how it went.  I will report back tonite either way and let you guys know how it goes.
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Belgarion

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Re: How should I drill my time zone?
« Reply #7 on: October 28, 2003, 10:39:10 PM »
Well.  I ended up drilling it modified label.  The pin is next to the ring finger and the CG is about an inch right of grip center.  Ball has about 3/4oz side and finger weight.

First let me say it seemed to be a relativly weak ball with no recovery, alot like my shooter.  Smooth as day and hits like a tank, but wonder recover from a small pitch out.  Found success with it playing up 7 or 8 with a decent amout of hand, but if it got outside of that 2/8/10 or worse.  My deuce on the same condition definitly had some recovery.  I was standing 27 with the deuce and swinging it out to about 5 and having it rip back where as the zone wouldn't get up to the head pin.

There may have been too much oil for it, I may try adding some surface or drilling the fingers a little deeper and adding a weight hole to get it closer to 0 side and finger.  But I definitly didn't see any of this huge skid/snap or hard turn reaction I have heard about

Any additional suggestions are helpful
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charlest

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Re: How should I drill my time zone?
« Reply #8 on: October 29, 2003, 04:44:35 AM »
Brunswick seems to indicate the Time Zone is a medium-dry to medium-oily lanes ball. All reviews seems to indicate it is a medium-dry to medium lane ball. This makes me believe that most people will have to modify the cover, making it more aggressive, if they wish to make it handle medium to medium-hevay oil patterns.

It may seem weak compared to your Deuce, because the Deuce is designed, out of the box, to handle medium-heavy to heavier oil patterns and its core is much stronger, and it cover is 1000 grit matte. I'd say with standard drillings like your TZ, the Deuce is one to two degree stronger in hook and oil handling capabilities. To bring the TZ closer, sand it to 1000 grit dull and then compare the balls. Its base cover is a high gloss polish; as always, that makes a bigger difference than any drilling!
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Belgarion

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Re: How should I drill my time zone?
« Reply #9 on: October 29, 2003, 11:03:57 AM »
actually, this is what I wanted the ball to do originally.  Something that might give me a better read than my shooter, but after hearing about it, I expected it to rip on the backs and be stronger than advertised, but it wasn't.  This doesn't bother me, but I am going to have to tweak the surface again on my Eraser Particle Pearl so I can get it where it needs to be again!
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