I got my hands on a 900Global Break S75 this week and decided to experiment with the drilling a little. I put the pin on the VAL about 4 inches above the PAP, which swung the CG about an inch below and left of the middle finger and the MB in the track at about the grip halfway-line. I then added some polish (Storm Moon Shine) to the cover.

Test bed were AMF HPLs, fresh wet-dry shot, Kegel oil machine (don't know the oil). Pattern appeared to be 38 or 39 feet.

I was throwing pretty much with my hand behind the ball, not as much axis rotation as I usually use. The ball lopes at first, then revved up in a big way in the mids. As you'd expect with a pin on the VAL, it made a fairly fast transition, but then it kept driving and didn't hook out as early as I thought it would. Heavy roll with very good carry.

If I wanted to REALLY see it do tricks, all I had to do was dial in more axis rotation. At that point, it became a little hard to control.

Had seven in a row in practice, then the first five of the first game and shot 257 with it. By the middle of the second game, the surface got to be just way too much. Moon Shine doesn't seem to give as much of a gemstone finish to the ball as other polishes do.

Anyone else ever tried this thing? Ball started off with 2.9 oz top and a 5.5-inch pin, which I figure is going to be a necessity for anyone wanting to try this out.

Jess

Edited on 6/12/2009 9:52 PM

clt,

Drilling out the MB seems to work for a lot of people, but not for me. I drilled out the MB on an Epic Saga and it just killed the ball. I've got the MB almost drilled out on an Ebonite Matrix Conquest that I use as a dry-lane ball. It works there, but that ball is drilled to basically die off my hand so I can play up the ditch.

The MB placement on my Break S75 is basically at 9 o'clock to the layout.

Jess

Edited on 6/12/2009 3:22 AM

Jess,

If the S75 is this strong freshly drilled, what the heck are you going to do once it breaks in? YOU do know it's a SOaker and they take 20+ games to break in, and THEN they start hooking!

clt224,

FYI Drilling the MB out, like when you put the it in the thumb hole, increases the mass bias strength of the drilled ball. I don't know by how much or by what percentage.
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As far as I have understood it, putting a hole in the MB marker changes the core dynamics to the extent that if the MB strength (measured in hundredths of an inch) is .020", putting that hole might up it to .024" or .028". I never asked the experts (like JustRico or Mo Pinel) to explain the physics of it. I took their word.

Re: the S75
I haven't tried one yet, but I can tell you it did happen with the DT Soakers I have tried. After that 20-25 games mark, the ball hooked earlier and with more overall hook and more backend.

Once you changed the surface, with polish or dulling, you usually had to wait somewhere near that number of games to see the same or similar performance.

On my Thing Lives, the change was shocking.

I do not know if the process of creating a Soaker coverstock has changed since Phil Cardinale owned/ran Dyno-Thane up to the time he started 900Global and was responsible for AMF's bowling balls.
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