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Juggernaut

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Anybody have experience with the black urethane messenger?
« on: February 26, 2004, 11:44:30 PM »
I am thinking about trying one of these. Our lanes are spotty and if I try to play up the track with reactives, they snap way too hard on the backend but don't want to recover from deep inside. If I go with an aggressive reactive or particle from the inside, there is not enough oil in the heads to hold it long enough to make the break point.

 I was thinking I could polish one of these up and play up the track because it might not have the "snap" on the backend like the pearl reactives.
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Re: Anybody have experience with the black urethane messenger?
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2004, 08:17:37 PM »
i had some bad experience with this one
drilled stacked leverage..
ball roll up very soon and used up all the energy before it hits the pin..
no carry...70% of pocket hit will not have a strike.
i try different surface.600dull,,800dull..800 polish(black magic),1500 polish,,1500 smooth,,2000 polish....on wood and syn lanes..
none of them have good result.


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Re: Anybody have experience with the black urethane messenger?
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2004, 08:50:51 PM »
Depending on your speed and other factors, you should be able to drill it up to play straighter up the track with it.  I wouldn't drill it with the pin too strong because the ball will flare...just drill it with the pin next to or under the ring finger and then play with the shell to get lined up where you want to be.

The other thing...if you haven't used urethane in a while you will have to remember that they are far more sensitive to oil in the back end.  They also carry the oil down more dramatically then their reactive and particle buddies.  I have had many occasions where I was using urethane and actually carried down the oil on my line and had to move my feet right.

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Re: Anybody have experience with the black urethane messenger?
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2004, 02:28:57 AM »
I can use a regular urethane (black hammer,black turbo) for the first game, or a granite gargoyle drilled 2 X 0(it has NO flare) until the oil moves, then the backends disappear. I was thinking that a ball with some flare might overcome this problem.

 The granite is very unusual. I was tole it would hook a ton, and it might under other drillings, but the way it is it is a pure down and in ball on oil and wont cut through the carrydown effectively without some flare.

  What do you think, will the flare help me or not?
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