Author Topic: Laneshield (Read 1954 times)

Tex · « **on:** July 11, 2003, 08:47:28 AM »

Well the installation is about done in our center. The stuff looks interesting. The center will reopen sometime tomorrow. I will be able to take my first shots on the new lanes on Sunday and will let you know what it is like. I know that with the blacklights on this stuff is really wild looking, almost like a bright blue sheet of lighted water. At least the "bowlers" that are into the blacklights will enjoy it no matter how it plays. I think it will be OK, at least considering the age of our wood lanes it will be more consistent.

HamPster · « **Reply #1 on:** July 12, 2003, 12:00:06 AM »

Lol, you should see my post. It sucks. Carrydown is just about the same or quicker than normal synthetics, there's no difference, except for the fact that they won't be able to strip the lanes for the first 3 weeks to let them "cure." So you'll probably have the ball hook all it's going to in the first 30 feet, and then just slide. And of course once the midlanes start burning up, it's going to be suck city. I don't think it's that great at all, don't get your hopes up.
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Tex · « **Reply #2 on:** July 14, 2003, 10:47:28 AM »

I will have to ask about the stripping thing. Have not heard that one. First impressions were mixed. They oiled on Saturday and were swamped with open play. The one lane that I tried that had minimal play had good back ends. It may help us in that we are using the new Prodigy oil that does not carrydown as bad.

SrKegler · « **Reply #3 on:** July 14, 2003, 12:57:48 PM »

That "curing" is news to me too. The house that has it in our area is running the lanes as normal. 3 weeks??? I t hink someone is giving you bad info.

Carry down doesn't seem to be much of a problem. Backends are not as strong as our original wood.

One thing I did find out is the ABC does not have patterns that we have to use. Rumor has it that the lane shield here in the states has a different formulation than is used overseas.
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Tex · « **Reply #4 on:** July 14, 2003, 01:23:56 PM »

Since this stuff is a roll of hard plastic material, there shouldn't be any curing time. Now the old Guardian was another story,that may of required curing. Maybe the center got bad information. We had the Brunswick tech guy in house for the installation and we ran our normal strip-oil condition first shot or at least as far as I know.

HamPster · « **Reply #5 on:** July 14, 2003, 08:48:33 PM »

When they put in the lanes at West Ridge in Topeka, they had to let them cure. Everybody says it was awful for the first year, and then once they got broken in, it helped. It was his (the proprieter of West Ridge) guess that the midlane hook and no movement beyond 30 feet was due to that. Lol, anyway, the shot sucks at Gage Center, and I'm not surprised.
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Forget Kung Fu, I know Ron Bahr!!!

The only difference between youth and adult leagues are that the big boys are allowed to whine. They're more entertaining anyway.

SrKegler · « **Reply #6 on:** July 15, 2003, 12:35:35 AM »

hampster, now you've really got me confused. West Ridge has Brunswick Anvilane, at least according to my notes.

Anvilane goes on with screws, no curing is needed. Where are you getting your information.

The only curing process necessary is on wood lanes after they have been recoated. Most manufacturers recommend 7-10 days before using stripper.

Are you really sure they put Lane shield down at Gage. They may have put down partial guardian. If so, they probably refinished the backends. That's the only reason I can think of for the lanes to need to cure. Still can't think of any reason they would need 3 weeks.
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HamPster · « **Reply #7 on:** July 15, 2003, 02:36:28 AM »

Yeah, they had a big banner hanging up for weeks proclaiming that it was new Laneshield technology. It's purple with bright orange arrows. I don't understand why they can't strip it if it's plastic either. I've been trying to gather as much info as possible, and it's not coming really easily. I'll try to find more out tomorrow.
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Forget Kung Fu, I know Ron Bahr!!!

The only difference between youth and adult leagues are that the big boys are allowed to whine. They're more entertaining anyway.

Tex · « **Reply #8 on:** July 16, 2003, 05:33:49 PM »

Talked with one of our guys today. We are running our stanrdard strip/oil program. They ran the first run with cleaner. Nothing was said about needing to wait at all and like I said before the Brunswick technician was here for the installation.

Tex · « **Reply #9 on:** July 21, 2003, 05:38:02 PM »

Update on the new stuff. We are having major problems with getting any volume of conditioner down on the lanes. The pattern we were running on wood left the outside completly dry on the Laneshield. The pattern is breaking down in less than a game. They are going to update our lane machine this week. We have a Phoenix and it still has the three speed programming and they are updating to the newer four speed. This will give us a slower speed, but it looks like the speed is not the whole problem. Seems the new stuff is sucking the buffer dry in a mater of feet after the wicks disengage. If your center is looking into this product, they need to ask about the conditioning of it.

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