For the last several years I have struggled a little bit.
Most of the time it has seemed there has been a dry patch...bone dry to the left of 11 in the heads. Just no way to play up the oil line and always forced to go in the middle of the alley whether there was carry or not.
(I've often threatened our righties to show up at one of their no tap tournies and shoot 900 without a strike). I used to win a ton of em!
However work schedules have kept me away from proving my point!
Anyway to get speed thru the dryer heads in my new area I've taken to polishing!
First I used Black Magic. Oh that gives a big reaction. Then I started using 2000 degree polish applied on top of 600 or whatever I thought was appropriate for length. Nice controllable reaction but tending to loop the lane with that strategy. (fine some places).
Then I talked to the first lefty to dominate our local scene in a while and he said "Unless you are a high speed lefty in this area you are dead...WITHOUT WAX!" Not bad scores seemed to improve. As he explained...wax seems to get thru the heads and then still read the dry back area slow.
TOld my friend King of the Mill about wax and he responded. "I never like to have a surface cover that changes". And that's what wax does. It goes away.
Every week it goes away and the ball is grabbier by the 3rd game and needs more wax before next week.
So I tried Clean and polish from Track. Sweet but still a pretty strong reaction to the back boards.
Finally I tried Delayed reaction from Track. According to my local proshop she told me...."This just kills it". "Lots of length and no reaction at the back".
Well people don't understand how much reaction I get. High axis rotation, high track, decent revs and slow speed! Voila!!!
Took a ball that always jumped if I move left(jumped immediately) and now it's acting like there is a long blend out near board 9. No backend reaction? Hmmmm maybe for some people. But I get reaction on 50 feet of oil!
All of a sudden I'm playing down 9, my ball is acting like there is oil, but it still has plenty of reaction AND!!! I've got attack angle. From out where the local 20 mph lefties throw it!
Might have learned something! (With a caveat). Local lanes have recently refinished and DO seem to have a slightly higher volume.
More testing.
REgards,
Luckylefty
PS thanks to Mitch Beasley who explained the relationship of different Track polishes to me!
