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Title: help with dynamo x2
Post by: icefiction on December 10, 2009, 12:11:47 AM

I drilled one for a customer yesterday, he throws 2 finger and has a pap of 4 1/2 over by 1/2 up. He said he wanted the book to get down lane and recover so i drilled it 4 3/4 pin to pap which ended up over bridge. The ball needed a hole on the side so i brought it down to 1/2 positive side and 1/2 finger. The ball hooks maybe five boards more than his plastic ball. After he brought it in an explained his distaste for the ball i noticed that the ball is soaked with oil, he used it for less than a game. It seems the oil never leaves the cover of the ball, it just sits on top an builds up. Is this normal from this cover or might this ball be a bad ball?
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Title: Re: help with dynamo x2
Post by: Buzzhead on December 10, 2009, 10:13:41 AM

knock the factory polish off and reapply some with 2000 abralon. see if that helps?


also just getting the ball used sometimes brings about reactions... let it get a track on it....
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Title: Re: help with dynamo x2
Post by: stopncrank on December 10, 2009, 10:24:11 AM

Every X2 ive seen that was drilled Pin up was a over under nightmare, so i went pin down with my 1st one, with the cg kicked 45 degrees and a 3/4" hole on my val about an 1 1/2" below my pap. The ball set up nicely in the mids and had a hard continous arc on the back. Another thing i realized is the X2 is not a hook monster, but on true medium conditions that ball is a BEAST. Sounds like you matched up the bowler with the wrong ball for the conditions he is seeing.
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Title: Re: help with dynamo x2
Post by: Doug Sterner on December 10, 2009, 09:52:00 PM

It took me about 5 different cover preps to get mine where I like it.

As for the oil soaking....it's pretty common today for this to happen with the solid resins on the market.

The ball is very twitchy OOB but once the coverstock gets tweaked it does work VERY well on mediums.
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Title: Re: help with dynamo x2
Post by: icefiction on December 15, 2009, 11:26:03 AM

so why was this ball marketed as a large hooking ball.

ive never seen a ball become oil soaked after one night of use.

its hard to explain to a customer why the ball he saw on the internet for 200+ dollars hooks less than his tornado.
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Title: Re: help with dynamo x2
Post by: stopncrank on December 15, 2009, 11:53:36 AM

i can use mine on anything from med hvy to med, any more volume and there are better choices. i think this is one of those balls where you can definitely go with stronger drilling without fear of it being too strong. i think it more of strong core/weaker cover ball than anything. Actually for me, i think its by far the best medium condition ball ive ever thrown and thats saying something cause the storm diablo was tops for me before the x2.
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Title: Re: help with dynamo x2
Post by: absoluteisanidiot on December 15, 2009, 12:01:57 PM

The X2 was advertised as Xtra length and Xtra backend where does it say it's a huge hooking ball?  Xtra length means the ball goes long and Xtra backend means the ball hooks hard on the backend.   Also it's impossible for a ball to become oil soaked after 3 games.   The ball is awesome on medium oil conditions.

Title: Re: help with dynamo x2
Post by: urbanj51 on December 15, 2009, 01:13:40 PM

This ball does what it's designed to do.  It is way angular and gives way more length than the Original Dynamo.  This ball is best on medium conditions, whereas the Original Dynamo was for heavy oil.  The original Dynamo was often squirty down the lane and that's where the X2 comes in to pick up the slack.  It's much more smooth and predictable and is way more angular at the break point.

If you're experiencing way more oil on the X2, it's because it's not designed to soak as much oil as the Original Dynamo.  Nothing to be alarmed over.

If they're using the X2 on a heavy condition, they shouldn't be.  Or they can, but just expect the ball to under-perform every time because they aren't using it on the conditions it's built for.
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