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Sidewinder - Crumbling filler?
« on: September 09, 2009, 12:39:01 PM »
I''ll do a manual search a little later since very little popped up from the past 30 days.  What''s the base cover on this ball?  I know most are solid/pearl hybrid with a low particle load while a few are straight reactive.  I picked one up super cheap (always wanted a SW or an Ambush) from Ebay and couldn''t find any information about it on Brunswick''s site.  The rest of the BVP balls are there, but not the Sidewinder.  Is the base Powerkoil 18 or one of the Activator''s or something else?  I never drilled up anything true Rico and thought it might work good on a ball like this.

Edited subject to get more looks.  Can a small chip in the filler be fixed?  A small amount of dust is just an annoyance at this point, but I''d assume that it will only get worse over time.

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Re: Sidewinder - Crumbling filler?
« Reply #16 on: October 02, 2009, 10:02:05 PM »
Had a bit of secondary drama with the pro shop.  The pro shop problems all started in July when I was trying to get another ball (different manufacturer) replaced and the driller went MIA.  Anyway, I went Monday - terrible storm, the new driller's house lost power - he stayed to wait on utilities no problem.  Come back Wednesday and guess what - the new driller had quit.  Thursday I happened to bowl with one of the owners of the shop.  She told me the first driller had some important personal issues to deal with during the past few months and would be back Friday.  I had the ball fixed today - a small amount of plug added to the bottom of the thumb hole.  Hopefully that will be the end of it.

Hopefully I can find a decent shot this weekend to test the Rico Sidewinder and replacement Creature.  They should give me some different looks for med/light to medium oil.
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Re: Sidewinder - Crumbling filler?
« Reply #17 on: October 16, 2009, 09:49:24 PM »
The plug added to the thumb hole seemed to fix the filler crumbling/dusting out.  Threw the ball a bit with the box surface on our normal (Tuesday) house shot.  The ball is pretty allergic to oil.  Some mid lane read and really smooth down lane.  No matter the angle, it was pretty much a 10 pin magnet.

Took the ball to 2000 abralon to see what it would do.  Managed to throw the front 8 with it on my other (Thursday) league right after the surface change.  Pulled into the oil it does very little, but miss a little wide into the dry (much more dry on the Thursday shot) and it doesn't over react.  Might be a pretty good thing for Thursday.

On the Tuesday shot I can play pretty straight up around 7 provided I take some hand out of the ball.  Pretty hard to do with most equipment, even with much less dry than Thursday.

Might be a very good ball for short sport patterns where the back ends are hard to control.  Not so useful on (our) normal league shots where you need a  strong back end reaction to score well.  Once the normal THS breaks down and you need to move further into the oil, the Rico Sidewinder just doesn't have enough "oomph" to make it back and carry.
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