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themachine300

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Zone Mass Bias Strength?
« on: June 19, 2007, 12:39:32 PM »
What is the MB strength for the zone series, somewhere i heard it was like .17 or .18.  The reason that I ask is i thought about laying out one of those ebo jason couch or TJ layouts on a RZ or a VZ as an experiment.  Anyone tried it yet, i'm interested in the reactions.
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Re: Zone Mass Bias Strength?
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2007, 08:44:04 PM »
I layed out a Vapor like that for a two hander.  I think I remember spinning up a Zone Classic at the old shop where I used to work and the time being around 10-11 seconds which is fairly medium-high on an assymetric core.  He said the vapor went a bit straighter than he thought and it was very soft on the backend.  It did enable him to play much farther right than he was used to and not give up hitting power.  The One series balls are designed to be much more angular than the Zone Assymetrics so a change of direction with those balls with these layouts would be more abrupt for a power player.
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Re: Zone Mass Bias Strength?
« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2007, 08:51:38 PM »
FWIW, the soon to be released Blast Zone has a 0.020" MB differential.  A slight increase from the past asymmetrical Zones.
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Re: Zone Mass Bias Strength?
« Reply #3 on: June 19, 2007, 11:13:02 PM »
Check out the tech sheets for the current Zones (Vapor Zone), the listed mid-RG is 0.017, not too shabby.  That holds true for all the modern Zones except the Impulse Zone, which was a few points lower (had a lower diff, too).  Higher than most asyms before the current crop of super-low spin time asyms we have now, spin times in the 8-9s range.  

It wasn't until the last season or two that we started seeing <6s spinning balls like the Xception5.0 (the first 5s spinning ball) and the Vanguard balls with mid-diffs in the 0.025 range.  Track's asyms from the Freak and Phenom era were in the 0.010 to 0.015 range, spin times over 8s.  The Havoc had a very weak asymmetry, I think I heard spin times in the 11s range.

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Re: Zone Mass Bias Strength?
« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2007, 04:51:31 AM »
By current standards, the Zone's core mass bias is medium. When they were introduced, the 0.017" was pretty strong but state of the art "killer" cores have a mass bias of 0.030" (Vanguard core in the Awesome Finish). I guess the Blast Zone core is a consequential step to keep up the pace, without sacrificing versatility for a broad audience.
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Re: Zone Mass Bias Strength?
« Reply #5 on: June 20, 2007, 05:59:35 AM »
Just a little history lesson, the old Omegas had an MB strength of .038!!! Any wonder they were so conditional depending on how you drilled them?
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Re: Zone Mass Bias Strength?
« Reply #6 on: June 20, 2007, 02:18:47 PM »
Interesting...

Could somebody fill me in with what 'one of those ebo jason couch or TJ layouts' is?

themachine300

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Re: Zone Mass Bias Strength?
« Reply #7 on: June 20, 2007, 06:00:53 PM »
Check out ebonite's official website with the Total NV trick layout vid.  I shows Ron Hickland laying out a ball for TJ.  Again, if anyone else has drilled a Zone ball with these types of layouts, what reactions did you get. Thanks for the replies
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