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Equipment Boards => Radical => Topic started by: duvallite on April 15, 2014, 06:33:20 PM
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Anyone know how the Grease Monkey compares to Storm's Crossroads, if both are drilled the same? My wife is looking for something a little weaker than her Crossroads for when the lanes start to dry out and her ball starts going high or left. She is not good at adjusting or moving in and swinging the ball more, and prefers to stay in the same area. Her ball speed is about 10-11 at the pins. Will the Grease Monkey fit for her?
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The Grease Monkey's cover will fit for what you need. I would not drill it the same way you currently have your Crossroad. I would put a control layout for her to smooth out the back ends for her when the lanes begin to dry up.
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The Grease Monkey's cover is sneaky strong and I'm afraid that she may be stuck with a ball that hooks as much. And if you go pin up, that increases the GM's diff and makes it stronger.
A better choice may be the Torrid Elite or a Brunswick LT-48.
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Tim,
What do you consider to be a "controlled drilling."
The Lt 48 seems to be smooth and arc rather than long and strong. Look at some videos of it or at the PBA league finals where one of the bowlers used it quite a bit even after the heads were toast.
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I've drilled 2 Grease Monkey's. 1 with my favorite drill (pin down), 45 x 5 9/16 x 70, my other one I drilled with a label leverage type drill, don't remember the numbers off hand, to give it a smooth arc motion for when the lanes get jumpy.
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If her speed is 10-11 at the pins then her speed off her hand is around 13mph. This would mean she is well on the slow side of average. Bowlers with slower ball speed usually do better with lower differential balls on average house conditions, especially when the lanes break down. The Grease Monkey is an excellent ball but unless her rev rate is very low, she has a lot of tilt, or the lanes are very slick the Grease Monkey may be a little early for her to see a large difference between it and the crossroads. Better options as mentioned may be a lower differential ball like the LT 48 with a smoother reaction or maybe a Ringer or Misfit Pearl if her style lends its self to the ball rolling very soon. A number of women bowlers I have had experience with tend to have very low tilt and axis rotation. This tends to lead to having the ball roll out too soon as the lanes start to get drier rather than the ball running away from them. It is usually better to have your proshop guy evaluate and decide between the above options as he or she probably knows the intricacies of your wifes game better than we do.
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My LT 48 is stronger than my Grease Monkey. The only difference is the pin above ring finger on the LT and above the bridge on GM. My pearl Misfit is pin below middle finger and smoothest and weaker of the three balls. My Torrid Affair is pin over middle finger and it gives me a smooth continuous arc motion. Just my $.02, Bruce