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Ric Clint

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How durable are the Vendetta's and Crisis's?
« on: April 25, 2005, 04:22:50 PM »
We all know how long the Soaker balls last. I'm still using my Thing Lives and shooting 700's with it and it's got close to 150-200 games and I'm still using it on Medium/Heavy Oil when nothing else hooks.

So if I bought a Vendetta Black or Vendetta Pearl or Crisis Pearl etc... can I expect close to the same life span as a Soaker ball? Or do these balls die like every other company's balls usually do?

And a quick question... if the idea of the Soaker coverstock was to make a ball's life last longer, then why not put that coverstock on every single ball? Just curious?




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Phillip Marlowe

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Re: How durable are the Vendetta's and Crisis's?
« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2005, 11:55:11 AM »
The Vendetta cover is a little trickier than the Soakers.  The covers tend to go about 100 games and then need ... rejuvenation.  I have found that a resurface plus "hook again" after about 100, then 180, then 260, then 340 tends to get you about 400 games out of the Vendettas.  After that....
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Re: How durable are the Vendetta's and Crisis's?
« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2005, 01:56:14 PM »
I have an originalt Vendetta (Red/Black) polished to 2000 grit and have used it about 250-300 games and the ball is still going strong. I did  do a mild resurface to remove some of the tracking to perpare it for travel league nationals but it hasn't lost a bit of the back end at all. This ball goes longer and turns harder than any ball I have.
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DynoLess Daddy

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Re: How durable are the Vendetta's and Crisis's?
« Reply #3 on: April 27, 2005, 12:55:36 AM »
this is where I have had the opposite reaction. All of my vendetta's are still unresurfaced and cleaned and polished every so often. My soaker covers have needed the TLC over and over to keep a consistent reaction...
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Ric Clint

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Re: How durable are the Vendetta's and Crisis's?
« Reply #4 on: April 29, 2005, 12:54:18 AM »
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My soaker covers have needed the TLC over and over to keep a consistent reaction...


What do you mean by this? That they stop hooking until you clean them, or that they...???



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CharlieBrown

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Re: How durable are the Vendetta's and Crisis's?
« Reply #5 on: April 29, 2005, 01:49:21 AM »
One of my friends is very lazy, and he hates cleaning bowling ball, anyway he wanted a new ball in January, so I introduced him the Soaker coverstock.

He bought a Thing, 4 months and close to 150 games later, the ball is as strong as ever, and he claimed that he never cleaned it once apart from wiping with clean towel.

Hope my NIB Crisis is as durable! And oh, there's a NIB Thing in the shop waiting for me to pick up! Me so happy!
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DynoLess Daddy

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Re: How durable are the Vendetta's and Crisis's?
« Reply #6 on: April 29, 2005, 09:54:09 AM »
Ric

I have to keep my soaker cover clean and at times resurface...basically baby them in comparison to my vendettas and crisis.
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