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General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: trash heap on November 23, 2015, 05:50:13 PM

Title: Are the latest bowling balls more durable?
Post by: trash heap on November 23, 2015, 05:50:13 PM
Has there been a turn towards a bowling ball lasting longer or are today's greatest and latest still going towards high maintenance and short life span.

Any manufacturers out there that have balls more durable than others?


Title: Re: Are the latest bowling balls more durable?
Post by: kidlost2000 on November 23, 2015, 05:57:08 PM
Depends on price point and purpose. Bigger hooking balls with surface usually require more up keep then others.

This has been the case for a long time. Most anything else usually requires much less.
Title: Re: Are the latest bowling balls more durable?
Post by: bradl on November 23, 2015, 06:17:37 PM

Good question. if coming to maintenance, it would also depend on how much maintenance is done. as well as type of oil used on the lanes, as well as amount.

With all of their advertising for it, I guess the time honoured test would be to see how well Hammer's line from Deadly Aim up to current holds up over the next 5 - 10 years. If they hold up like the Fabs did - or anything up to, say, 1995 - then we'll have a good answer.

BL.
Title: Re: Are the latest bowling balls more durable?
Post by: charlest on November 23, 2015, 07:21:37 PM
Depends on price point and purpose. Bigger hooking balls with surface usually require more up keep then others.

This has been the case for a long time. Most anything else usually requires much less.

I think he's got it.

Nothing new under the sun.
The bigger or stronger the hook, the greater the amount of oil is absorbed and the faster it is absorbed. Less or smaller hooking balls tend (mark that word, "tend") to absorb oil slower.

Cleaning the ball after each use, IMMEDIATELY, is a major key to longevity.

Ya gotta, Ya gotta, YA JUST GOTTA get the oil off the ball as soon as possible. No IFs, ANDs or BUTs about it.

Those people cleaning their balls just BEFORE league are either idiots or totally uneducated about ball maintenance. By this time, I just feel sorry for them.
Title: Re: Are the latest bowling balls more durable?
Post by: BobOhio on November 23, 2015, 07:31:45 PM
Plus 1 Charlest
Title: Re: Are the latest bowling balls more durable?
Post by: spencerwatts on November 24, 2015, 10:25:42 PM
I can't say immediately, as in as soon as I get home. I will say I usually clean my reactive resin equipment with ball cleaner within 24 hours of use. So far so good.
Title: Re: Are the latest bowling balls more durable?
Post by: charlest on November 25, 2015, 05:57:07 AM
I can't say immediately, as in as soon as I get home. I will say I usually clean my reactive resin equipment with ball cleaner within 24 hours of use. So far so good.

Fine for urethane and plastic but not for resin, given how rapidly they absorb oil. Unless you live within 15 seconds of the bowling alley, resins will have absorbed that oil. Take that 45-60 seconds time to clean your main ball or two of the evening. If it takes you more than that, you're spending too much time fondling your balls; do that in private. :) You spend more than that, I'm sure, BS-ing with your friends after the games. Clean your balls while you're BS-ing. :)