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Equipment Boards => Columbia 300 => Topic started by: Jesse James on August 04, 2003, 01:55:31 AM
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Just wondering if any of you guys have had this happen to you? I only own one Ebonite ball currently, and it's a Savage that I use for heavy oil. This ball has been great for me when lanes were sloppy, or had heavy oil. It didn't move much, just gave me a consistent late, but hard break of a few boards, and would destroy the pocket. I usually played very tight lines with it, semi-direct.
So anyway, I get the idea to drain the oil out of it. I soak it in hot, hot soapy water,(dish detergent), and out comes the oil. Lots of it. Suddenly the ball has new life!! Not only can I play the heavy oil, but I can use it in med-heavy as well. I can suddenly hook the whole lane. I can swing it. I can play down and in. Wow! A new weapon. Problem is......if I hit the pocket 9 times, 7 of those times I will get a ringing ten-pin, regardless of the angle to the pocket that I take. Holy Smoly, what have I done. This was the whole reason I stopped using Ebonite to begin with. Their balls didn't seem to fit my style, and I left way to many TEN_PINS!
Guess I should've left it alone. Maybe I should only shoot inside lines?
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Try altering the coverstock SLIGHTLY:
Either
- sand it one to two degrees finer than it is
(if it's 600 grit, sand it to 800 or 1000 grit)
or
- polish it *lightly* with a decent bowling ball-specific polish like, Black Magic, Storm Xtra-Shine, or Neo-Tac Renew-it. All are easy to use without a spinner.
Change your angle of attack SLIGHTLY to account for the greater length. The finer grit sanding should have slightly more length and less backend. The polish should have more length and save more of its energy for the backend, with an apparent greater backend hook.
Again, make these changes slightly, just a little.
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"Those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it."
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If you happen to have read one other post, it said that using heat to drain oil would also drain some resin with it. I think it had to do with coverstock death. Basically, they have found that using any kind of heat, whether a dishwasher, bucket of hot water, an oven at a low setting, could pull some of the resin out of the ball. So, obviously, less resin, less reaction. I have found that using Hook It or Clean and Dull on a spinner after 6-9 games, will pull enough dirt and oil out of the ball in order to retain the ball reaction without pulling out the resin. Thus, a longer lifespan of the coverstock and ball reaction.
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If anyone out there is worried about the scores being too high, try duckpin!!
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Thanks guys for the replies and comments to my query. They are all great, but I just realized I posted this question on the Columbia forum rather than the miscellaneous as I originally intended. Sorry about that. My mistake. Will try to be more attentive in the future.
Anyway thanks for suggestions as well.