I just wanted to start a thread and gloat about how good my Respect has been.
I got it free, for someone bought it, disliked it so much so fast that he just gifted it to me. It had *maybe* 6 games on it. Woot!
So I plug and drill it up 4.5 pin to PAP, and 65* VAL angle. This puts the pin right smack in the middle of my ring finger.
Out of box, it was a little wiggle-y. So I hit it with a 2k pad by hand to knock off the shine, and it's been off to the races ever since. I prefer the ball sanded, no polish. But I've had success with it at 1k, 1500, 2k, 2500, 3k, and 4k, across ALL sorts of patterns - plenty of different THS's, and sport patterns as short as 36' and as long as 46'.
I've never seen a ball roll as heavy as this thing does! The motion is strong and unrelentingly continuous. It's a great step down from my Dream On and Halo, and a great step up from my Teal Badger and X2.
I socked away another one, for our local distributor was discontinuing them and I snagged it. I might drill this one pin up with a longer pin (thinking 5" x 30*) with less surface than my first one. That way I'll have the dreaded Respect 1 > Respect 2 arsenal, lol.
Anyway. I love you, Respect. Thank you for listening to my 900 Global TED Talk.