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Zanatos1914

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Selecting The Wrong Ball
« on: December 23, 2008, 04:22:18 AM »
Every now and then you buy the wrong ball and you have done all you can besides just throwing it out the window...  Thats how I feel about this 1st generation Kenetic....

Anybody purchased a ball and really cant use it...


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leftyinsnellville

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Re: Selecting The Wrong Ball
« Reply #1 on: December 23, 2008, 12:25:05 PM »
Elite Alien...was just DOA for me.  Probably just too aggressive for the conditions, but it appears like it just isn't hooking.
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abrown

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Re: Selecting The Wrong Ball
« Reply #2 on: December 23, 2008, 12:26:38 PM »
black widow pearl and cell both good balls just not for me
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Danes07

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Re: Selecting The Wrong Ball
« Reply #3 on: December 23, 2008, 12:48:42 PM »
For me it was the Ultimate Inferno and Strike Zone.  No matter how much I tried, I could not get those balls to work for me.  Polished, with surface, swing the ball, play straight, throw soft, throw hard....nothing worked.  Sold the Ultimate Inferno to a guy I bowl with.

Gonna put new grips and a new slug in the SZ and see if somehow I can't find a place for that ball....but I doubt it.
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Monster Pike

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Re: Selecting The Wrong Ball
« Reply #4 on: December 23, 2008, 12:57:38 PM »
Dimension for so far.  Part of it's not using it enough maybe.  The Attitude Shift & Shift have been my favorites so far.  I just brought out the Virtual now & that may become the ball.
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Re: Selecting The Wrong Ball
« Reply #5 on: December 23, 2008, 01:00:05 PM »
Scorchin Inferno was D-O-A!!
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Razr

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Re: Selecting The Wrong Ball
« Reply #6 on: December 23, 2008, 01:02:35 PM »
All duds, psycho, venom, bite, total nv, no mercy beatn', thats all I can think of right now.
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Re: Selecting The Wrong Ball
« Reply #7 on: December 23, 2008, 01:09:52 PM »
Demolition Zone and Radical Inferno
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blacknois

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Re: Selecting The Wrong Ball
« Reply #8 on: December 23, 2008, 01:23:42 PM »
to the OP, try dulling the surface of your Kinetic, after i did that to mine, i got a much smoother reaction, up until i had to move inside, i would leave ten pins all day, but thats expected.
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Re: Selecting The Wrong Ball
« Reply #9 on: December 23, 2008, 01:31:48 PM »
Storm red sparkle hit, I bought it as a dry condition ball but even on dry conditions it was impossible for me to get a consistent reaction out of it.

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strikecing

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Re: Selecting The Wrong Ball
« Reply #10 on: December 23, 2008, 01:33:49 PM »
Classic Zone just nothing!!!!!  Now matter what I did jsut BLAH!!!!!!
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JessN16

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Re: Selecting The Wrong Ball
« Reply #11 on: December 23, 2008, 01:39:34 PM »
As much as I like the Diamond core balls from Lane #1 and their derivatives, the Bomb cores are junk in my hands.

I can make them work on limited conditions, at least. The Roto Grip Epic Saga, on the other hand, has to be one of the biggest turds I've tried to throw. It revs up as quick or quicker than anything else I have but then once it gets to the breakpoint, you might as well draw lotto numbers -- it's that inconsistent. I've tried four or five different surface preps and two drill patterns. Still not working.

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charlest

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Re: Selecting The Wrong Ball
« Reply #12 on: December 23, 2008, 01:39:59 PM »
quote:
Every now and then you buy the wrong ball and you have done all you can besides just throwing it out the window...  Thats how I feel about this 1st generation Kenetic....

Anybody purchased a ball and really cant use it...
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Yup.
FWIW this is what I do with a ball that I think has unfulfilled promise.
1.I try 3- 4 different surfaces.
1a. I try it at 2 or 3  different houses.
2. I redrill it.
2a. I try it at 2 or 3 different houses.
3. I try 3 - 4 different surfaces on the new drill
3a. I try it in 2 or 3 different houses.

If it doesn't work to my satisfaction by then, I either sell it for minimal price, give it away, or leave on the rack at ono of the local houses. Someone always picks up such a ball.

4. Come here and whine my a** off.

5. Buy a new ball.
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WSUstroker

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Re: Selecting The Wrong Ball
« Reply #13 on: December 23, 2008, 01:58:37 PM »
Total Inferno.  Never got a consistent read on that ball.  Gave it to my dad, works great and has a roll I wish I could have gotten out of it.
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Re: Selecting The Wrong Ball
« Reply #14 on: December 23, 2008, 02:09:38 PM »
Radical Inferno and a Storm Domination.  I didn't mind so much on the Storm because I got it really cheap, but the Radical frustrated me!
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