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Motogp69

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Which PAP to use?
« on: March 23, 2008, 12:31:23 AM »
When laying out a ball should you lay each one out individually for what you intend it to do? I mean in a sense I have a baseline style that I always start with and that has a specific PAP for me. I also have a different PAP measurement when I move deep inside, as well different measurements when I play up the back of the ball, and so on and so on.

As well, are my PAPs weird. When I play my baseline power stroker style the oil lines are closer to my thumb, and are farther away from the fingers. As I move inside though the lines start to move closer and closer to my fingers not yet to the point of where I'm hitting them, but it has happened sometimes when I grab the ball and get all of it.

 

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Re: Which PAP to use?
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2008, 09:56:49 AM »
Unless you know with 100% certainty that you will use release X with ball Y, always drill according to your "base" PAP which should be taken from a plastic ball or something with low flare thrown straight down the oil.  Unless you throw on nothing but PBA or sport patterns and your PAP changes over an inch, it probably isn't worth worrying about anyway.  Even if you ended up with a slightly stronger or weaker drill than you intended, it's nothing a slight surface change couldn't solve.
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