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makpa

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Plastic ball layout
« on: November 19, 2009, 06:07:03 PM »
HEY BR

I am looking into drilling a plastic ball for a high rev lefty. he has pretty high revs in the 450 area, his pap is 5 over and 1 1/8 up likes to play up the gutter. He has a mixim he uses for his spare ball at the moment drilled cg in center of grip. he also have to naturals. drilled similar 5" from pap, val angle at 40* and cg angle at 45* one is polished and the other is box. he needs something to step down from the naturals. was thinking a secong maxim and i know you can get them to flare by 7" and 9" balance hole from center of grip. just dunno the diffrence. and maybe a 1000 grit surface
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dizzyfugu

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Re: Plastic ball layout
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2009, 02:19:40 AM »
IMO you can try to put the pin at leverage above the PAP. Since the CG is in the pin area, the ball might need a balance hole to become legal - but that's what I think you8 can do to maximise flare with a pancake core.

As a side note: have a look at Brunswick's urethane Groove: pancake, too, comes polished, but with a urethane cover that offers more grip than polyester - should IMO fit between a polyester ball and a Naturla with its real core.
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the pooh

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Re: Plastic ball layout
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2009, 09:37:20 AM »
He should try a XXXL Starburst! Best plastic ball on the market. It has a real core and will flare moderately, like a reactive ball, but being plastic, it hooks less and snaps less. Great dry lane ball. I use mine in the same slot he is trying to fill, just under my Natural. It also doubles as a good spare ball.
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J_Mac

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Re: Plastic ball layout
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2009, 09:48:39 AM »
Shifting the pin closer to leverage and adding an old school 9" balance hole should get you all the flare you need to separate it from the Maxim he currently has and the Naturals.
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Strokewiththelefthand

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Re: Plastic ball layout
« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2009, 10:31:51 AM »
Why not drill a third urethane with either a farther pin to pap, CG placement closer to the PAP, or a low grit sanding with a crap load of polish.
I'm at a rev rate of about 325 right now and not a lot of oil for it so I took my sonic x to 800 then hit it with extender polish. That ball is monstrous but smooth on the back. I also had a Night Hawk with the pin at 5 1/2 and the cg at about 3 inches. That ball worked well when I had to get deeper.
It also depends on the speed. If he throws it slow then drill his equipment a little weaker. If he throws it harder then cosmetic changes are more likely the answer.

I hook the ball a lot but at 450 is unreachable for me. However, these are some of the things I'm doing to combat extreme dry lanes.
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