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Equipment Boards => DV8 => Topic started by: duvallite on October 01, 2015, 04:10:47 PM
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Need some help getting some more length with my wife's Diva Divine. We just started bowling at a different house, and they don't use as much oil as the other place did. Her pin-up ball, with her slow ball speed (10 mph at the pins), now starts to roll out too soon midlane playing her usual basic down & in shot near the track. She is not comfortable or good moving in very much, so her ball typically rolls out and goes high, or brooklyn, and is basically DOA.
Box surface is 500-4000 dull. I've got a spinner and assorted pads and polishes to use, so what kind of surface change would you recommend to make this ball more user friendly for her?
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The key word in your post is dull. Try it at 4000 with polish and that should give you the most length. You can always go lower from there.
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another option instead of polish or in addition too. Is to include the intermediate steps between 500-4000 because full grit progression will yield smoother overall reaction and higher grit finishes will tend to push further down the lane.
Example: 500-1000-2000-4000 results in a smoother surface.
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As has been stated above, I would recommend progressing through the grits from 500 all the way down to 4000 and then applying royal compound and polish. The smoother the underlying surface the more length you will see.
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Thanks for the responses. I'll try progressing thru the grits first to see if that helps her. I never seem to have much luck when applying polishes. Always seems to kill ball reactions too much, so maybe I'm doing something wrong, like using too much polish or polishing to hard or underlying grit is wrong or something.
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Ended up changing the surface doing skip-a-grit, 1000 abralon-4000 NEAT, using lots of water with the NEAT pad for a nice sheen. This combo worked great for her, and now she's happy ;)