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Matt Fortney

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Full Roller Question
« on: November 19, 2008, 10:42:55 AM »
My driller recently drilled out an old ball for this guy who is a full roller. He wanted to try something away from the conventional full roller drilling. They found his axis point, and put the pin above his fingers, 3 3/8" from his axis point. My driller found this layout on some drill sheet he had laying around, and it said it was the highest flare potential of any full roller layout.

Here's the question. The guy threw the ball, and really liked how much flare it produced, and how much it hooked. The problem is is that now his track is NOT that of a full roller. It's just left of the fingers and right through the middle of the thumb. My driller tried a weight hole to get the track off his thumb on his axis point, but that made no change. Anything he can do to get it off the thumb? Thanks in advance.

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Re: Full Roller Question
« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2008, 06:46:02 PM »
I drill for a very high revrate full roller who has an rpm range in the high 480s-low 500s.  I drill all of his layouts a bit unorthodox based on the full roller PAP and not the conventional full roller drillings because they hook way too early for him.  I have used the drilling you speak of in alot of his balls and you pretty much cannot move the track off of the thumb.  Just use a high flaring enough core where you'll get that 4-6" of flare so that it migrates off of the thumb and won't interfere with the hook shape down the lane.
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Matt Fortney

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Re: Full Roller Question
« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2008, 06:52:15 PM »
That's what they were afraid of. The old ball he drilled was I think a TKO. The ball he's considering this layout on is The Sauce. Only the first like...3 rings of flare go over the thumb, but the point is, he doesn't like it. Thanks though.

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Dan Belcher

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Re: Full Roller Question
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2008, 05:55:34 AM »
Sounds like his choices are to stick with earlier rolling conventional full roller layouts, learn to deal with it tracking over the thumb early, or just learn to throw a more standard semi-roller release.
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