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Strapper_Squared

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Speed Demon
« on: March 11, 2008, 11:14:35 PM »
I was poking around last weekend on the "used & abused" equipment rack at our lanes.  This equipment is either abandoned, traded in on newer equipment, donations, or otherwise left behind at the lanes.  The rack was getting pretty full, so I decided to take a look for myself (plus I wanted to play around with some different pitches).  On the floor next to the rack was a 70's style single hard-shell carrier.. when I opened it up, I was amazed.  A single drill Brunswick Speed Demon!  I had once back in the mid-90's, but really hadn't seen one since.  This ball have a couple nicks and scars in it, but in general was decent shape (especially for the age).  It was drilled up lefty, stacked layout with a shallow weight hole.  I plugged up the fingers and went to work.  I turned the old weight hole into my thumb hole.  Measured straight up directly towards the pin for my fingers (pin is now situated directly between and just above my fingers), and drilled out the old thumb slug (1 1/8") as the new weight hole.  It worked out that I have a 5.5" pin to PAP, just above my fingers.  The cg is just right of my ring finger and slightly below my midline and the weight hole is just inside my VAL, in the thumb pos quadrant.  I smoother out the cover with a 320 grit CAB and hit it with Quick-Kut to put a little shine on the ball.  

I took it out to the lanes and threw a couple shots on a fresh cheetah pattern.  Outside of the first arrow, the ball seemed to skid and skid and skid, then all of a sudden absolutely took off!  It was very angular on the backend.  I had forgotten how strong this ball was on the backend!  I moved a couple lanes down and threw a few shots on the "shark" pattern.  Outside of 10, the ball just didn't have a shot... not even close to being early enough.  However, I was able to move inside, playing a fairly tight line 20 out to about 15 and managed to get a little reaction on the backend.  Again, I was able to hit and carry better than expected!  I think this is going to be a great ball for getting inside and still making it around the corner.  I'm going to play around with it on a league shot tonight and see what happens.  So far, it looks promising.

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Strapper_Squared

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Re: Speed Demon
« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2008, 11:21:07 AM »
Alright.. I threw this dinosaur in league last night.  I ended up getting there a little late and had time for two "warm-up" shots.  There seemed to be quite a bit more oil than I normally see (partially think that was due to me throwing the Speed Demon and there actually being a little more oil on the lanes than normal).    It took me a couple frames to get lined up as the ball seemed to be flaring a ton, but just not finishing on the backend.. left a couple weak 10's.  Finally found a  reasonable line playing straight up the 10-11 area.  Finished with 225.  Next game , I double, leave ten pin and cover it, then string the next 5.  In the 9th, I tug the ball and go through the face for a split, then finish out the 10th for 245.    The absolutely amazing part is that at this point (after 2 games), I had not moved my feet a single board!  I can't ever remember this being the case, especially in this house.  The last game I started with a 10 pin, strike, then another 10 pin.  I could see the ball burning up early and not finishing, so I made a 2 board move inside... the ball flew down the lane, just barely made it back to the pocket and luckily I carried a 5-7 with a messenger coming off the wall, LOL!  At this point, I lost it... decided to make another small move inside with both feet at target to try and play a little tighter line.. the ball just skid past the head pin for a washout.. I moved back out to where I initially started with a little weaker release.. ball didn't finish, left a bucket, original release with a little more speed, left a big washout, moved way outside and the ball just didn't finish for me.  Looking back, I should have made a change to something pearl with a little backend recovery for the last game.. but I wanted to make the Speed Demon work all three...  had a decent shot at shooting 700 with it, but ended up shooting 650.. still respectable.  

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"The haddock hits me with a sucker punch. I catch him with a left hook.
He eels over. It was a fluke, but there he was, lying on the deck,
flat as a mackerel, kelpless."
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dizzyfugu

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Re: Speed Demon
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2008, 11:50:53 AM »
Never underestimate "old stuff". Sounds a bit like my OOB Revolution Renegade I shot down from ebay, and which has, since then, developed to becoem my current go-to ball for medium-dry shots. It is a killer! It even holds my current high game record - something I NEVER expected to achieve with this ball from 2000.

Nice find!
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