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Equipment Boards => Ebonite => Topic started by: grayfoxx on January 25, 2015, 03:54:10 PM
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My first resin ball(1990?). It outhooked anything I had thrown before(Black Angle - Blue Hammer). I am trying to find where it fits on *The Perfect Scale* so that I know what general vicinity I need to search to find something similar.
Any old Eboniters out there with this info??
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The problem is that the various hook rating scales have changed so much since that time. At one point, 10 was the top and they had to re-rate the balls every couple of years or so and eventually upped the top-end of the scale as the newer balls kept getting stronger. Manufacturers all had different scales so comparing one company to another was difficult unless you used the ratings by independent evaluators like Ball Reviews or Lichenstein (?). So trying to rate an old ball on today's scale system is difficult. I don't know if they even go back and rate old balls to see where they fall on the newer scales. You could email the people at bowlingball dot com who have the Perfect Scale and see if they know.
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Back at that time, the ball was meant for medium oil. It was a good ball back then too as my dad was able to do well with it and a Teal Rhino Pro. Only thing now is that the lane oils and volumes have changed to where I don't know if it would still be a medium oil or now a light oil ball.
Here are some specs for when it was released back in 1992: http://123bowl.com/ball.cfm?ballid=51