These days I am usually considered to be a tweener - working on becoming a stroker - used to be a cranker. My nothing is working ball is an Avalanche Solid drilled 1" X 3.5" with the weight hole in the PAP. This ball can be thrown with 2 to 10 boards of hook depending on release. My specs for PAP are 5 1/8" over, and 5/8" up. The solid cover gives decent pin action even though this rolls like a souped up plastic ball. I like this ball better than a plastic spare ball because it is more predictable - and it gives me a good dry lane ball. The track is close (3/4") to the thumb hole but not over it it is about twice that from the finger holes.

My personal suggestion would be to take the least used ball you own and try it out. My Avalanche Solid was overlapped in reaction and carry by balls I had above and below it so it became "surplus." It was either put it in the closet or try something really different - glad I did.

drilled one last week for a cust with axis of 5 1/4 and 3/8 up.....no problems.

Thanks a lot guy's. I'm trying to blend out a really wet dry house with this. I also have an old blue hammer sitting in the closet I have thought about getting out. Any thought's on that.

I used to own a urethane Blue Hammer - naturally it didn't absorb oil so unless the layout provided some decent flare would end up with 1" band of oil around ball when it came back in the ball return. That said, it would be a good ball for some of the dryer conditions we see now. Sorry I traded it but I do still use a Purple Rhino Pro for dry, which I find very similar to the Blue Hammer - and no, reactive or not it doesn't absorb much oil either.