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First, the easy one: Chainsaw. Full review will come with more testing. Right now it appears to be everything it is advertised to be -- smooth and controllable on deep inside lines, but I also played 5-out-to-1 with it tonight and watched it come back with great smoothness and most importantly, not wanting to beak the rack. Best thing about this ball is, like the Tsunami, it allows me to use one ball to take up two slots in the bag and thus free up another slot for a specialty ball in case I hit one of those jackpot conditions.

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Secondly, I found a Storm-poured Lane #1 test ball on eBay this week. I was asking about which Storm coverstock was on the ball early this week and the guesses were stuff like Reactor and R2S. I'm as or more familiar with Storm stuff as I am Lane #1 so I was looking forward to this.

Best I can tell, the cover may not even be reactive. It was about 3 boards stronger than my XXXL Starburst, if that. Only shot I could play -- on a fairly dry, flat practice shot on HPL synthetics -- was to get outside 5 and point it at the pocket off my hand. The finish did appear to be reactive in characteristics but it was like I was trying to play the outside line on PBA Shark.

Either Lane #1 cores are a horrible match for Storm coverstocks, or this ball was just an exercise to see if Storm could physically pour the ball. If it's the former, I guess we know why Lane #1 is being poured by 900G.

Beautiful ball, though. Deep blue pearl, CG clearly marked (I was disappointed in the sloppiness of the graphics on the Chainsaw). Typical Storm quality control and that's a big compliment. I guess the cover may have been Monsoon Pearl, but it was a very mild formulation if so. I probably won't keep this ball long as it would never get used.

Jess

 

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Re: Mini-test on Storm-poured Lane #1 test ball, and Chainsaw...
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2009, 06:38:25 PM »
This ball might have been poured in the mid 90's there Jess.

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Re: Mini-test on Storm-poured Lane #1 test ball, and Chainsaw...
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2009, 06:59:08 PM »
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This ball might have been poured in the mid 90's there Jess.

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I hadn't thought of that, and it's certainly possible, but the "LANE #1" graphics package across the diamond logo is the same font as what is currently used, not what appeared on the Brunswick-era balls.

Even if it is, though, I dabble in a bunch of older stuff and actually had an old Track Sensor Xcel with me and it was out-hooking the test ball by a factor of 50. My old AMF XS moves a ton more than this ball did, too.

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Re: Mini-test on Storm-poured Lane #1 test ball, and Chainsaw...
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2009, 06:59:20 PM »
I thought Storm pours Global and Roto...

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Re: Mini-test on Storm-poured Lane #1 test ball, and Chainsaw...
« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2009, 07:00:11 PM »
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I thought Storm pours Global and Roto...


No, 900Global is its own company and also pours AMF and Seismic, along with Lane #1. It operates out of the old Columbia 300 plant in Texas whereas Storm is in Utah.

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Re: Mini-test on Storm-poured Lane #1 test ball, and Chainsaw...
« Reply #5 on: May 21, 2009, 07:01:27 PM »
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I thought Storm pours Global and Roto...


No, 900Global is its own company and also pours AMF and Seismic, along with Lane #1. It operates out of the old Columbia 300 plant in Texas whereas Storm is in Utah.

Jess

I stand corrected, thanks Jess.

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Re: Mini-test on Storm-poured Lane #1 test ball, and Chainsaw...
« Reply #6 on: May 21, 2009, 07:33:24 PM »
900g was doing the tropicals for storm for awhile

storm did pour some test balls way back

storm poured my xp IIRC (test ball till global was up and running)
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Re: Mini-test on Storm-poured Lane #1 test ball, and Chainsaw...
« Reply #7 on: May 24, 2009, 09:15:23 AM »
Jess,

That is why it is called a TEST ball. Can't expect anything until you throw them.

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Re: Mini-test on Storm-poured Lane #1 test ball, and Chainsaw...
« Reply #8 on: May 24, 2009, 01:58:49 PM »
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Jess,

That is why it is called a TEST ball. Can't expect anything until you throw them.

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I wasn't exactly complaining about it. Just giving a review and expressing a little surprise over it.

It doesn't even have a USBC stamp on it anyway, so I don't think it's competition-legal in the first place.

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Re: Mini-test on Storm-poured Lane #1 test ball, and Chainsaw...
« Reply #9 on: May 26, 2009, 10:12:55 AM »
The USBC stamp only pertains to balls made after the rule change. Any older ball will not have the stamp but is still USBC legal.

Didn't think you were complaining at all.

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Re: Mini-test on Storm-poured Lane #1 test ball, and Chainsaw...
« Reply #10 on: May 26, 2009, 11:24:52 AM »
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The USBC stamp only pertains to balls made after the rule change. Any older ball will not have the stamp but is still USBC legal.

Didn't think you were complaining at all.

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Any way to tell exactly how hold this thing is? If I can use it in play than I might keep it as a scorched-lanes piece but if I can't then I'll probably let it go pretty soon.

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Re: Mini-test on Storm-poured Lane #1 test ball, and Chainsaw...
« Reply #11 on: May 26, 2009, 11:49:57 AM »
Does it have any serial number on it at all?

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Re: Mini-test on Storm-poured Lane #1 test ball, and Chainsaw...
« Reply #12 on: May 26, 2009, 12:03:07 PM »
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Any way to tell exactly how hold this thing is? If I can use it in play than I might keep it as a scorched-lanes piece but if I can't then I'll probably let it go pretty soon.




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Re: Mini-test on Storm-poured Lane #1 test ball, and Chainsaw...
« Reply #13 on: May 26, 2009, 02:51:45 PM »
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Does it have any serial number on it at all?


Yes, it has one. It doesn't read like the typical Storm serial (first two digits being the year of manufacture), but the characters "1999" do appear in it in order. Was the USBC stamp rule in effect in 1999?

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Re: Mini-test on Storm-poured Lane #1 test ball, and Chainsaw...
« Reply #14 on: May 26, 2009, 03:14:42 PM »
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Does it have any serial number on it at all?


Yes, it has one. It doesn't read like the typical Storm serial (first two digits being the year of manufacture), but the characters "1999" do appear in it in order. Was the USBC stamp rule in effect in 1999?

Jess


I don't honestly think it matters.  It was probably never seen by the USBC, much like the Bonanza 2's, so it was never approved for sanction play.