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Bowlnrd

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dead full throttle
« on: June 24, 2004, 05:20:15 AM »
I had a new full throttle and loved it at first. After about 30 games i noticed the amount of hook/power was not there.I took it to a pro shop and had it re-drilled thinking it was the way it was drilled. I got it back and it was a dead ball hardly no movement. Has this happened to anyone else?
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Bowlnrd

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Re: dead full throttle
« Reply #16 on: July 02, 2004, 02:11:55 PM »
I actually work at the reno hilton bowling center its not too heavy oil but its 41ft in length.I used the full throttle there most of the time.If not there then i bowl at silver strike lanes in gardnerville nv, the oil length is 40ft and a sport shot.I actually can use a heavy oil ball often as in 10gmes per day. I avg.about 12-15gmes a day. so when a ball dies after thirty games its a huge waste of money for me because if i only use that ball then 3 days later it dies i just wasted 200.00 and im not that rich. So in point i need a ball that wont die so quickly which ive found in a lot of other equipment. But if it works for you and you dont use it that often then id say it was a good buy.

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Re: dead full throttle
« Reply #17 on: July 02, 2004, 07:55:15 PM »
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I actually work at the reno hilton bowling center its not too heavy oil but its 41ft in length.I used the full throttle there most of the time.If not there then i bowl at silver strike lanes in gardnerville nv, the oil length is 40ft and a sport shot.I actually can use a heavy oil ball often as in 10gmes per day. I avg.about 12-15gmes a day. so when a ball dies after thirty games its a huge waste of money for me because if i only use that ball then 3 days later it dies i just wasted 200.00 and im not that rich. So in point i need a ball that wont die so quickly which ive found in a lot of other equipment. But if it works for you and you dont use it that often then id say it was a good buy.

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I'm not trying to single anyone out, but this post is a good example.

I think StoneNinePin was trying to emphasize is that not a ton of people recognize true heavy oil.  Just because a pattern is long or is a sport shot doesn't mean anything.  The sport shot can be very misleading to many people.  Many house shots have 50+ units in the middle and next to nothing outside of 10.  When a sport shot has 10 units of oil outside, it will act like a flood to people used to bouncing the ball off the dry.  If there's 10 outside, there's only 20 inside.  Hardly a condition for a heavy oil ball.  Throw a hook monster on 20 units of oil and you have a recipe for dead ball syndrome.  Also, if there are 6-10 people on a pair, even a heavily oiled lane will quickly dry out (especially in the track area) if everyone is using an oil soaking sponge.  Unless you have a lot of axis rotation (which does seem to be very common now), it's hard to get too deep with a hook monster.  They typically want to grab early and arc (that's why they're effective on oil).  So it's hard for me to imaging getting a bunch of games a day out of your oil ball unless you are a low rev, straighter player.
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BowlersAidProShop-Wells

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Re: dead full throttle
« Reply #18 on: July 03, 2004, 01:52:47 PM »
If you're bowling on a 41 foot pattern, are you sure you're not just hitting carrydown, and the dull full throttle just doesnt store enough to corner on the backend.....I had issues with the same thing bowling on a 43 foot pattern with a box Ultimate Inferno. When it starts to bleed to early, it wont corner, and the carrydown just makes it hit flat and look nasty.  A quick switch to a shinier strong ball generally fixes that problem, but I'm not convinced a reactive full throttle truly "died" in every sense of the word.  Combined with what strider said, it just makes sense to me that your ball encounters too much friction early, then doesnt store enough to turn the corner on the back.

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Bowlnrd

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Re: dead full throttle
« Reply #19 on: July 07, 2004, 11:18:44 AM »
I know its not carrydown because i bowled on fresh lanes each time i used it.once some carry down stated i moved in left and had a good shot.I dont hate c300 i actually really like their equipment a lot.I will still buy coloumbia but i will probably come here first to see what people say about the ball first.
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