My friend has high ball speed with lots of revs, inferno is drilled 4.5x4.5, the ball has a terrible reaction, it looked like it was burning up too early, it stood up and looked like it was going to make the turn left and didnt hardly do anything. we polished it up a little  thinking it would roll better, it was worse, the ball looked like it was going to make the move and almost went right it went so strait. i was looking at buying one of these but after watching his it scares me. the ball reaction was BAD, this was on a wide open house shot by the way, 2 lanes down i shot 254, 297, 225. has anyone had an inferno look this bad.

There are several Infernos to choose from.

 4.5 x 4.5 literally means nothing on how the ball is drilled.

Without knowing much about the bowler, I'd suggest having it de-oiled and resurfaced to 500 then Rough Buff or the newer Royal Compound.  That's a good place to start.

Does your friend have lots of "forward roll" with his release?

Yeah, definitely keep the ball's age in mind. The original Inferno was a strong pearl back in its day, but that was quite a while ago now. I recently picked up a used Lane 1 Cherry Bomb Pearl, which was the same cover but with the bomb core as opposed to the Brunswick core. These days, that Cherry Bomb is really only for lighter conditions with squeaky clean backends. It took me aback a little when I first threw it because when I had a Cherry Bomb back in the day it was one of the biggest backending balls I'd ever thrown. All these years have tamed it down. So, unless he had a great reaction with it and then it just died on him, it may just be that you were expecting a lot more performance than that particular ball can give anymore. Still, it's worth trying to get it resurfaced and de-oiled to see first. Man, those balls were amazing in their day!

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Quote from: notclay on December 04, 2013, 01:10:16 AM

Without knowing much about the bowler, I'd suggest having it de-oiled and resurfaced to 500 then Rough Buff or the newer Royal Compound.  That's a good place to start.

Does your friend have lots of "forward roll" with his release?

Lane, what is this new Royal Compound? Is it the same as Ruff Buff or different and if different, in what way?

Brunswick finally changed their Rough Buff and High Gloss products this year.  They have added something to promote "tackiness" to the coverstock, which is a nice plus. 

How is your recovery going?  Lots of strikes?

Recovery going well. Doing really well with new 12# ball. Seems to strike extremely well on Brooklyn side