BallReviews
General Category => Coverstock Preparation => Topic started by: dR3w on February 26, 2015, 02:04:43 PM
-
I have a friend whose old track 100 spare ball cracked. They replaced it with the new track spare+. I'm not sure what he knows about that ball, but it has a core, and he was telling me that it hooks too much for a spare ball.
What options do you have to make the ball hook less?
I was thinking there were 3 options.
1. Use an extender polish ... which I doubt would work on a polyester ball.
2. Use a flare decreasing hole, if static weights allow.
3. Redrill with his pin on his PAP
Any thoughts or suggestions, other than trying to teach him a new release for his spares?
-
Find a bowling alley with a lane machine.If he hooks that ball to much somethings wrong even with a core.Most plastic for me even a plastic ball needs some surface to get in a little roll on synthetics.And I have a 400+ rev rate.Those most be seriously dry lanes.
-
What I'm guessing it that he is shooting at the ten, or some other spare and his ball is probably moving a few boards on the back end. Not really hooking a lot, but enough that now he has to adjust for the small amount of hook that he is getting.
-
I would try a flare reducing hole first, make it as large and deep as the static weights allow. If that didn't work I'd plug and redrill it, but I'd use a 6" pin to PAP with the cg kicked way negative.
-
The new Track Spare ball has a real core in it and quite a strong one. The old one had a plain pancake core like most plastics balls.
You can try sanding it to 4000 grit and use a strong polish on it like Storm's Xtra Shine or Lane#1's Secret Sauce. This ball's stock surface is 2000 grit + polish.
Then I'd try a flare reducing hole.
(Obviously by now, he and you realize he should have bought a plain pancake cored plastic ball. Good old 20/20 hindsight. ;) )
-
Another option is to look at the other side of the coin:
He now has a spare ball that can double as dry lane ball, maybe reducing the number of balls he needs to carry. He can now also throw that spare ball at spares he might not have been able to in the past, like double wood spares, since he now has some drive at the pin deck. He can now also, potentially, be more aggressive when trying to convert splits because he has a ball he can now get to "turn" at the end of the pattern. All this for just making a small adjustment in how he shoots his 10 pins.
I was "lucky", my first plastic ball was the Ebonite Clear Wolf, so it had a real weight block in it. So I learned how to shoot 10 pins that way. I wouldn't trade it for the world...I could never throw a plastic ball with just the pancake weight block. This ball is the best dry lane ball I ever had, and I will shoot 300 with it one day, lol.
-
The Track Spare+ does not hook. It will merely turn over if given enough dry boards. It is a very useful spare ball for sure. One of my favorites.
If it really is "hooking" then trying all of the items listed above can help, but it really shouldn't be that much of an issue unless the ball speed is that slow?
-
The Track Spare+ does not hook. It will merely turn over if given enough dry boards.
It doesn't hook, it just turns over when it encounters dry boards.
If a ball changes direction when it hits dry boards (Friction) and that's not hooking, what do you consider hooking?
-
maybe try the newspaper trick and some extender polish?
L8r Shannon
-
get a pancake core .plastic white dot,maxum or and old manhatten rubber