Author Topic: EPX-T1 the best kept secret... (Read 1509 times)

Cranking_Inferno · « **on:** June 08, 2006, 03:53:39 PM »

For those of us that know how incredibly powerful this ball is, and versitile on all kinds of heavy oil, spotty or worn lines, we swear by this ball.

It seems to take about 3 hot water baths to really wake it up though... Once the activator starts to leave the coverstock surface, its hooking time.

For those of you true to Columbia, don't let that one bad batch of cracking shells deter you.

Epoxy will be the end of resina nd partical for heavy ehavy oil, and columbia knows they got something.

Good luck finding one now, as they are going away.
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Currently in the 6 ball roller:
14lb. EPX-T1 - Stacked - Heavy oil
14lb. Action - Stacked - Heavy/Medium oil
14lb. New Standard - Stacked - Medium oil
14lb. Absolute Inferno - 1:30 - Medium oil
14lb. Sahara - 11:50 Length - Medium/dry oil
14lb. XXXL - Stacked Leverage - Light oil

Walking E · « **Reply #1 on:** June 09, 2006, 12:05:22 AM »

Not many bowlers encounter heavy enough conditions to throw the ball on the condition that it's made for. It got kind of a bad rap in that sense because people were buying them and then throwing them on medium conditons and the ball did nothing. That hurt the ball's reputation, as did the cracking issue. Better for Columbia to start over with a new Epoxy ball (new name, color, etc.) than try to correct so much bad feeling about this ball.
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Official Member of the BrunsTrackColumStormHammEboRotoBuzzAMF Nation!

Bluff · « **Reply #2 on:** June 09, 2006, 12:08:31 AM »

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For those of us that know how incredibly powerful this ball is, and versitile on all kinds of heavy oil, spotty or worn lines, we swear by this ball.

It seems to take about 3 hot water baths to really wake it up though... Once the activator starts to leave the coverstock surface, its hooking time.

For those of you true to Columbia, don't let that one bad batch of cracking shells deter you.

Epoxy will be the end of resina nd partical for heavy ehavy oil, and columbia knows they got something.

Good luck finding one now, as they are going away.
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Currently in the 6 ball roller:
14lb. EPX-T1 - Stacked - Heavy oil
14lb. Action - Stacked - Heavy/Medium oil
14lb. New Standard - Stacked - Medium oil
14lb. Absolute Inferno - 1:30 - Medium oil
14lb. Sahara - 11:50 Length - Medium/dry oil
14lb. XXXL - Stacked Leverage - Light oil

If you say this ball hook so much why are you looking for a heavy oil ball?

http://www.ballreviews.com/Forum/Replies.asp?TopicID=126912&ForumID=16&CategoryID=5

ha?

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Honestly I got a lot of balls. No NOT BOWLING BALLS!

Edited on 6/9/2006 0:06 AM

LowRev · « **Reply #3 on:** June 09, 2006, 10:44:41 PM »

Guy in my winter league threw the EPX-T1 all season. Sunday night league Broken down Medium-Dry conditions with a lot of carry down from Free-Bowling plastic balls. He averaged 207.

The carry down made my pearl Messenger TI slide into the three pin but the EPX-T1 pretty much ignored the carry down and hooked to the pocket.

His ball diddn't hook the lanes or anything but it did seem to ignore the conditions and make a consistant move to the pocket.

I think the EPX-T1 is a good ball that needs a little more tweaking in production to make it a great ball.

(IMHO) Columbia probably should have released this ball like the Professional (a specialty ball) instead of selling an experimental ball as the biggest hook monster in the world. It would have saved them a lot in bad PR.

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Jeff

LowRev and Lovin' it

--Well more like Medium Revs and a lot more axis tilt since I switched to finger tip.

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