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seadrive

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House Shot to PBA Shot
« on: May 23, 2003, 04:28:36 PM »
I gave the manager of our local house a copy of the specs for the five PBA patterns, so he punched a couple of them into the lane machine, and put out pattern B for us to try.

Although the backends seemed snappier than usual, causing more than the usual number of splits, it didn't seem all that different from what we had been using, which is your typical x-mas tree pattern, run to about 35 feet, buffed to 42 feet.

I told the manager that I'd heard them say on the PBA show that it takes a few runs with the new pattern to "erase" the old pattern, and that with old wooden lanes, you still might have oil in spots where the pattern doesn't call for it, because so much oil has seeped into the wood over time.

He and his assistant basically told me I was crazy, that there isn't any carryover of the old pattern, so we're bowling on a "pure" PBA pattern B.  Doesn't sound right to me.

Anyone know if I'm right, that it takes a few oilings to entirely remove the standard house pattern?
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HamPster

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Re: House Shot to PBA Shot
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2003, 11:06:48 AM »
Yeah, it takes a couple runs with it to "warm up" the machine.  That's what the lane guy at the house I bowl at told me also, so I believe that's correct.
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Re: House Shot to PBA Shot
« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2003, 03:56:52 AM »
And depending on how the stripper was/is mixed you can still have quite a bit of oil residue which makes it heavier in some places than intended in addition to having oil in places that are not intended.

There is a good way to measure and load up stripper if you have a machine where you have to mix the stripper and water by hand. I've seen lazier maintenance people mix the stripper in the machine tank by puring in water and stripper instead of mixing it 1st then putting it in.
Guess what that does to the shot ?

Then there are the houses that do not strip heavy enough. These will have a very strong residue.



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seadrive

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Re: House Shot to PBA Shot
« Reply #3 on: May 25, 2003, 10:30:34 AM »
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There's no mistaking when you're on 'B'.

Brian, I think you might be getting the patterns mixed up.  B is supposedly the easiest of the bunch.

This is what the PBA says about pattern B:

"Pattern B is the longest of the five patterns, measuring 43 feet of oil on the lane. Typical to the length and design, the bowlers will migrate more towards the center of the lane as the ball normally will not hook back to the pocket if it strays too far outside near the gutter. This pattern usually requires extreme inside angles to get to the pocket after five or six games. The scoring pace is normally high for this pattern." (emphasis added)

This probably explains some of what I saw when playing on it, as there is no buff-out area, just 43 feet of oil that abruptly ends.  More skid, sharper backend snap.

Thanks for your comments, guys.
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Re: House Shot to PBA Shot
« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2003, 09:36:19 AM »
In our summer PBA pattern league if the lanes aren't double stripped the pattern doesn't play quite as intended or should I say expected.  The old "house" shot oil isn't all gone which kind of mellos out the ball reactions.  This is on synthetics, so I'd believe that wood is worse for getting the old patterns erased sufficiently to allow the PBA pattern to play as intended.  And even if you have the PBA pattern down on clean lanes, it will vary a lot from lane surface to lane surface because of the different coefficients of friction on the lanes or so I'm told.

The PBA shot is tailored to the lanes the tournament is on, isn't it?  I thought they looked over the lanes and then decided on the pattern that would make the lanes play as fairly as posssible.  I doubt if the PBA just pulls a pattern out of the hat for each tournament.  So by changing PBA patterns on your lanes you actually would be getting to situations that the patterns were not designed to promote?   Hmmm........  All I know is it is fun bowling on those patterns even if the average takes a beating!
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