Author Topic: Quantum Elite Le (Read 2584 times)

louie · « **on:** September 13, 2004, 02:33:51 PM »

I picked one of these up on Ebay. Nice ball! Excellent length and nice control of the midlane. I like a ball that gives me area, and this one excells at it. As long as I release the ball well, I have 4 boards of area at the arrows and 7 boards of area at the break point. Makes bowling fun. I just have to make sure I get the ball out. I've used it from deep inside on a very short (32 feet) fresh pattern. I usually use plastic or urethane here. I'm not sure how strong the ball is because everything hooks a lot in this house. I'll update when I roll the ball on a more normal pattern. Pretty ball. It looks a lot the original Inferno. The ball has a one inch pin and 2.75 ounces of starting top weight. Drilled with only finger holes.

Cg in ring finger and pin next to ring finger. Ending weights were 0.75 ounces of top and side weight.
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Why does everyone laugh when I bowl?

louie

louie · « **Reply #1 on:** September 18, 2004, 02:16:21 PM »

I don't know the true specs of the ball. An earlier thread came to the conclusion that it was an N'control coverstock with an inferno like core. In my experience it doesn't hook as much as most reactives I've tried. Very clean early, then the core revs up and you can see the ball trying to move in the oil but it doesn't have enough cover. It moves hard on the backend but doesn't cover a ton of boards. A unique look on the lanes. I can play deep with it when they're dryer or play pretty straight (for me) on fresh oil. It looks a lot like my Sonic X with an even smoother move and less boards covered. I like!
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Why does everyone laugh when I bowl?

louie

louie · « **Reply #2 on:** September 18, 2004, 04:34:52 PM »

The Infernos and Fuzes are a little strong for me. Most balls have me standing next to the ball return on fresh oil. The beauty of this Quantum is its small overall amount of hook and controlable nature.
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Why does everyone laugh when I bowl?

louie

stringer · « **Reply #3 on:** September 19, 2004, 06:24:41 AM »

Bowlingball.com says the cover is reminiscent of the yellow dot Bleeder. So how could it possibly be activator or n control?

charlest · « **Reply #4 on:** September 19, 2004, 07:16:34 AM »

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Bowlingball.com says the cover is reminiscent of the yellow dot Bleeder. So how could it possibly be activator or n control?

From the numbers given by bowlingball.com website, I'd doubt very seriously that it's any version of the Activator coverstock. Given Louie's experience, it's more than likely the N'Control cover. I'd bet this ball is close to the ScreamR, given what bowlingball.com says about the core.

just my best guess.

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charlest · « **Reply #5 on:** September 19, 2004, 08:20:52 PM »

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Bowlingball.com says the cover is reminiscent of the yellow dot Bleeder. So how could it possibly be activator or n control?

Puh-leeze! do you really believe it is plastic??

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Mankow · « **Reply #6 on:** September 22, 2004, 04:09:50 PM »

I'm the one who posted earlier. Bowlingball.com, who I believe had them manufactured by Brunswick, if you believe they're story, told me it was a slightly modified Inferno (the original) core with the N'Control coverstock. The cover does look similar to my Scream/R, only a different color, of course. It doesn't really look like Activator. When I first got it, I was looking at it and an Inferno, they are both the basically the same color, but they just don't look the same to me. The resin just looks and feels like me Scream/R. The numbers that Bowlingball.com gives it, seem really close to the ones for the Inferno, so I tend to believe them. It's definitely not plastic, although I wish it were. I think they compare it to the bleeder because the N'Control is REALLY clean through the heads and then has an angular backend. Something you don't see too often today. So far for me it has been everything it was advertised to be. It is really clean. Picks up a heavy roll in the mids but doesn't really get any traction until it hits the dry.

Mankow

charlest · « **Reply #7 on:** September 22, 2004, 07:05:13 PM »

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I'm the one who posted earlier. Bowlingball.com, who I believe had them manufactured by Brunswick, if you believe they're story, told me it was a slightly modified Inferno (the original) core with the N'Control coverstock.

This makes sense and seems straightforward and logical.

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The cover does look similar to my Scream/R, only a different color, of course. It doesn't really look like Activator. When I first got it, I was looking at it and an Inferno, they are both the basically the same color, but they just don't look the same to me. The resin just looks and feels like me Scream/R.

Here you are making a drastic mistake that many other people also do.
What makes you believe you can tell the difference in feel and appearance of different coverstoc's chemical formulations. The surface's feel and appearance has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with what it's internal features and traits are.

I can finish the surface of a polyester, a pearl urethane, a resin pearl AND a particle pearl so that you could never tell one from the other with any degree of certainty.

NEVER ASSUME!

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The numbers that Bowlingball.com gives it, seem really close to the ones for the Inferno, so I tend to believe them. It's definitely not plastic, although I wish it were. I think they compare it to the bleeder because the N'Control is REALLY clean through the heads and then has an angular backend. Something you don't see too often today. So far for me it has been everything it was advertised to be. It is really clean. Picks up a heavy roll in the mids but doesn't really get any traction until it hits the dry.

Mankow

That is understandable, completely, given the RG and the N'Control coverstock's charactertistics.

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