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Equipment Boards => Lane #1 => Topic started by: AdrianS on March 29, 2008, 05:28:56 PM

Title: Cobalt wasnt quite money, so lets try a DIRTY BOMB instead!!
Post by: AdrianS on March 29, 2008, 05:28:56 PM
Picking one up soon and have been given pretty reliable info that is is a better piece than the Solid Cobalt(by the same guy i bought the Cobalt off) Anyone else still throwing them?

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The Cobalt was OK at times and it might find its way up to where im living now but it seemed to either strike, leave a 2-10 or a 3-6-10 in equal amounts. With pin 4 1/2 from pap it seemed a bit weak for me but with pin at 3" from PAP, cg pretty close to PAP and hole below my midline it was pretty strong, just not real consisient. Im thinking it might be a bit more usable now where i see Synthetics with clean backs pretty often instead of the bashed up wood i was using it on before
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Title: Re: Cobalt wasnt quite money, so lets try a DIRTY BOMB instead!!
Post by: Fatboy8 on March 30, 2008, 06:59:36 AM
From the Dirty Bombs I've had, you need a little dry boards to really make it shine. At least the OOB condition, for me, it was pretty oil sensitive. My wife and daughter have both used them, with alot of success.
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Title: Re: Cobalt wasnt quite money, so lets try a DIRTY BOMB instead!!
Post by: earlthepearle on March 30, 2008, 07:30:28 AM
Ive got both of them....Fatboy8 is right, both of them are oil sensitive. As a matter of fact, the Cobalt may be the better of the two in their oob conditions. I found that "my" Cobalt will turn the corner when a line is found.....Not so with the Dirty Bomb. It`s definitely for drier boards.
Title: Re: Cobalt wasnt quite money, so lets try a DIRTY BOMB instead!!
Post by: Fatboy8 on March 30, 2008, 07:38:59 AM
I forgot to add, that both my wife's and daughter's were dulled to about 1000 or so abralon, with NO polish on them also.
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Title: Re: Cobalt wasnt quite money, so lets try a DIRTY BOMB instead!!
Post by: zeusjr on March 30, 2008, 10:15:02 AM
I haven't owned a Dirty Bomb, but I wasn't very impressed with the Solid Cobalt...
Title: Re: Cobalt wasnt quite money, so lets try a DIRTY BOMB instead!!
Post by: AK47 on March 30, 2008, 04:27:44 PM
i have dirty bomb stacked and this ball is a flat out monster off the dry in the backend with explosive carry at least for me. I can play down and in in the 1st game and can swing it in the 3rd game. i absolutely love it!
also, you should try cobalt (PEARL) this ball is pin under cg out and it will not leave a 10 pen with crazy carry and on drier lanes you can hook the whole lane and still carry. just my 2 cents
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Title: Re: Cobalt wasnt quite money, so lets try a DIRTY BOMB instead!!
Post by: BeansProShop on March 30, 2008, 04:48:50 PM
hey Zeus...

I absolutely love my Solid Cobalt..

Just goes to show you that not everyone matches up to every ball..

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Title: Re: Cobalt wasnt quite money, so lets try a DIRTY BOMB instead!!
Post by: Brickguy221 on March 30, 2008, 06:55:10 PM
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hey Zeus...

I absolutely love my Solid Cobalt..

Just goes to show you that not everyone matches up to every ball..



Beans...I loved my Solid Cobalt also.
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Title: Re: Cobalt wasnt quite money, so lets try a DIRTY BOMB instead!!
Post by: zeusjr on March 30, 2008, 07:21:55 PM
quote:
hey Zeus...

I absolutely love my Solid Cobalt..

Just goes to show you that not everyone matches up to every ball..


Oh I totally agree.  I see allot of people not liking the Solid G-Force, but it's my #1 ball.
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Title: Re: Cobalt wasnt quite money, so lets try a DIRTY BOMB instead!!
Post by: SprayNpray on March 30, 2008, 10:06:14 PM
I loved my Dirty Bomb.  AK47 said it best regarding reaction off the dry.  Very aggressive if you have dry to work with, but will skate in oil for sure... Some of the best carry I have ever gotten out of a ball.
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Title: Re: Cobalt wasnt quite money, so lets try a DIRTY BOMB instead!!
Post by: AK47 on March 31, 2008, 10:10:38 AM
quote:
quote:
hey Zeus...

I absolutely love my Solid Cobalt..

Just goes to show you that not everyone matches up to every ball..


Oh I totally agree.  I see allot of people not liking the Solid G-Force, but it's my #1 ball.
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quite funny cause on my 3rd drill with G-Force(rico) and i may have finally got it, just got to get surface now.  The reason i'm working so hard with G-Force is cause the carry is just sick, in a good way.
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Title: Re: Cobalt wasnt quite money, so lets try a DIRTY BOMB instead!!
Post by: leftehh- LG on April 01, 2008, 12:57:00 PM
i know this is off-topic, but what does "FOS" stand for?
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Title: Re: Cobalt wasnt quite money, so lets try a DIRTY BOMB instead!!
Post by: SprayNpray on April 01, 2008, 11:15:15 PM
Fellowship of Sawheads.
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Title: Re: Cobalt wasnt quite money, so lets try a DIRTY BOMB instead!!
Post by: AdrianS on April 04, 2008, 11:02:43 PM
I like it!!! Even with the pin over ring finger layout on it(which i thought i didnt like) it wasnt squrt/jump in its reaction at all. Shot +278 for the last 8 games with it at a skins tourney last night(after using dull stuff and getting flat 10'd to hell the first 2 games!!)  Damn shame people kept knocking me back to 3rd for the game and out of the skin $ for all but one of those games!!! The surface reads the lanes so different to the Cobalt, gotta feeling i'll like it when my homecentre goes synthetic in a couple weeks too.
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Title: Re: Cobalt wasnt quite money, so lets try a DIRTY BOMB instead!!
Post by: AdrianS on April 20, 2008, 05:41:42 AM
Another nice showing with the Dirty Bomb, a PB of 2355 for 10 games and a couple hundred hundred bucks spending money from my local combined scratch/handicap tour this weekend, a 289 too where i threw the 11th a bit soft!!
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Title: Re: Cobalt wasnt quite money, so lets try a DIRTY BOMB instead!!
Post by: 300jd on July 15, 2008, 12:37:17 PM
dirty bomb was my first lane 1 ball
bought it off my friend who used it and didnt match up well
been lane 1 fan after that
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