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Title: Anger dying
Post by: bigdawgwill44 on February 06, 2008, 12:51:59 PM

i just bowled on the chameleon pattern tonight, warm up's the ball was hooking awesome. First few shots, awesome. then it died! Why?? I wiped it off every shot, even cleaned it halfway through. Any thoughts?

Title: Re: Anger dying
Post by: ten pin killler on February 06, 2008, 09:27:05 PM

sounds like carry down...........
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Title: Re: Anger dying
Post by: agroves on February 06, 2008, 11:26:19 PM

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First few shots, awesome. then it died! Why?? I wiped it off every shot, even cleaned it halfway through. Any thoughts?

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Okay....sure thats what happened.
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Edited on 2/7/2008 0:26 AM

Title: Re: Anger dying
Post by: chitown on February 07, 2008, 07:19:47 AM

Sounds like carry down to me.

Title: Re: Anger dying
Post by: max revs on February 07, 2008, 08:10:21 AM

Did you try moving, since that pattern is always changing?

Title: Re: Anger dying
Post by: Shermster on February 07, 2008, 10:25:52 AM

Excuse my ignorance, but what is carry down?

Title: Re: Anger dying
Post by: Monster Stitch on February 07, 2008, 10:30:18 AM

bigdawgwill44 - It is definitely carry down. I understand where you are coming from. I bowled in a PBA League and the lanes are always oiled and stripped. The backends hook like crazy in the beginning. We were given 10 minutes of practice. By the end of practice from what looked like you had the whole lane of area narrowed down to something really tight of 5 boards of less. The lanes get like this because everyone who is bowling with you is bowling all different lines with multiple balls and surface.
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Title: Re: Anger dying
Post by: Juggernaut on February 08, 2008, 10:30:44 PM

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Excuse my ignorance, but what is carry down?

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  Carrydown is when the balls, after being thrown several times, have picked up small amounts of oil from the head area and have tranferred it to the backend part of the lane.

  As the ball travels down the lane, in the heavier oiled head section there is more oil than anywhere else in the pattern.  On its way through, the ball picks up oil on its surface.  These are the rings that you see on your ball when it comes back through the ball return.

  As the ball travels farther down the lane, it enters an area where the oil is very thin, if existent at all.  This is the backend area.  Since the lane surface has NO oil on it in this area, as soon as even a small amount of oil is transferred from the ball to the lane, it affects the balls reaction in both length and angle.

  If there is enough "carrydown", it can keep a ball from reacting to the lane surface at all.
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