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Equipment Boards => Ebonite => Topic started by: Loki300 on January 03, 2004, 08:14:02 AM
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Finally got a V2 Dry for the house i bowl at where the lanes are extremely dry. This ball gets amazing length as advertised, but I'm having trouble with the backend.
I find because the lanes are so dry and the backends are very big the ball is jumping to much. If i play down and in it breaks to early and goes through the nose and if i keep moving left i'm either left with wash outs because of the extra length, or if i change hand positions or speed i have no hope of carrying, especially the deeper you move with the ball. You can't carry deep inside or swing the ball.
So i'm wondering if sanding the ball at a higher grit 1500-2000 will work, or sanding lower and giving it a light polish will help.
Thanks for any help.
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Scuffing/roughing up the surface will help the ball get and earlier grip when playing deeper inside (starting in the oil). However, since that cover is a particle pearl, I would not suggesting going all out and sanding the entire surface. I'd suggest getting a mild Scotch-Brite nylon pad, like the grey one (800-100 grit, approximately) and, in a practice, hopefully on a condition simialr to your league, by hand, use it to slightly start taking off the polish. Do this very gradually in small steps to get the desired reaction.
I have encountered similar situations to yours and learned that, more often than not, sanding the entire ball still gives too much reaction. Sanding a particle, even a particle pearl like this can result in a very dramatic change in surface.
The idea is it's hard to tell just how much of a change you really need. So rather than going back and forth from sanding to re-polish to different sanding to re-re-polish, just doing right the first time, in small patient steps is best.
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Sounds like to me a v2 clean my be a better ball. This ball gets down the lane great, but will recover better than the dry. The area on the lane where the dry does not recover from, this ball will.