This may have been posted before but apparently it hasn't sunk in for some and I'm tired of people wasting bandwidth complaining about death. Here is a refresher course:
1. Clean your equipment. Every set or as necessary. There is too many good cleaning supplies out there to not have a cleaner in the bag. If you don't want to buy one make one.
2.keep up the surface up to liking. If you dull a ball to 2000 it won't stay at 2000 forever. As you bowl the grooves in the dull ball smooth out and the polish on pearls wear off. Dull balls will go longer and sharp reacting pearls will smooth out.
3 make sure there is head oil or enough oil to make your ball perform at peak efficiency. No head oil to a dull ball will make it burn out. Too much oil or high volume of oil will make pearls labor.
4 don't throw dull equipment on dry lanes. It burns a friction tracks on the ball. Makes the ball extremely porous and the cover brittle causing super oil absorption and cracking. I'm tired of hearing "my cell or my widow or my ebonite ball died." I have had a black widow solid, it didn't die. A lot of my friends have the BWS and no death. I have a cell. I only throw it in oil and it hooks a lot and carries a ton. These ball were made to handle oil.
5. Balls are drill sensitive. Leverage drillings are almost a thing of the past and a big no no in big cored balls. Leverage drillings are designed to read early and hook when touching friction. That means it hooks if the friction is 45 ft down the lane or 10 ft. Aside from that they are extremely smooth. No big backend unless you have a ton of side rotation, not hand or speed. Don't drill a cell stack leverage and expect a huge backend reaction. 9/10 the ball is hooking as soon as it reaches the lane. drill the balls the way they are recommended to be for reaction you want/ as close as your driller can get it.
If anyone has anything to add, please feel free. That's my opinion. And there are some bad ball out there but realize that there are a lot of contributors to ball death that is user related rather than manufacturer.
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