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luvmykings

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Dry Lane Ball
« on: February 14, 2012, 04:33:32 AM »


My Wed league has forgotten where they put the oil so now I'm in need of a dry lane ball. Any suggestions? Thanks











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Re: Dry Lane Ball
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2012, 12:44:44 PM »
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Re: Dry Lane Ball
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2012, 01:08:42 PM »
House ball off the rack... if you can find one that fits your span...



 

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Re: Dry Lane Ball
« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2012, 01:54:51 PM »
How dry is dry????

 

Urethane. If not, Plastic.

 

If dry means light oil, find a weak pearl or weakly drilled pearl and have at it.


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Re: Dry Lane Ball
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2012, 04:07:42 PM »
so far the slingshot has worked for me....I have it drilled with 5 3/4'ish pin (up) and cg on the positive side - OOB

 

seeing you like storm, the breeze pearl is too strong (OOB) for real dry stuff imo...I have the BP drilled very similar to the slingshot......


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Re: Dry Lane Ball
« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2012, 04:11:17 PM »
Without anybody seeing how you bowl or what you are bowling on, all the "suggestions" are no different than you going to each companies website and looking at their weakest ball(s). It's just going to be a list of bowling balls, none of which anybody can say for sure that it'll work for you.


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Re: Dry Lane Ball
« Reply #6 on: February 14, 2012, 05:27:39 PM »
My customers have done really well with the Motiv Recon RX-1, very long, must have dry.

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Re: Dry Lane Ball
« Reply #7 on: February 14, 2012, 07:49:36 PM »
@ Monster Pike. Funny you should mention house ball. Last week guy bowling against us pulls one off rack and shoots 687!!! Bit of a cranker and really did magic with that ball. I have most of the aggressive balls. Had an old Ace but still hooking waay to much.





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Re: Dry Lane Ball
« Reply #8 on: February 15, 2012, 09:49:10 AM »
After much experimentation, I have found that the "top-of the-line" ball of yesterday, becomes the medium ball of today. Then if you re-drill it very weak, it becomes a useful ball for med-lite oil. Using that philosophy I have a whole library of useful older pieces now. It just depends on your idea of "DRY".

 

My current arsenal for lite oil to dry situations are as follows:

Dry:

Shock and Awe- drilled 6x5, pin below the middle finger

N-sane Revs- drilled 4.5x4, pin down under the ring

Blue Hammer- drilled pin up, 4x5

Ebo Wolf- drilled lefthanded for extremes

 

Lite Oil:

RG Sonic-X- in a Tommy Jones layout(high pin, high flare, but I tweak the coverstock for control)

Shock Zone- Tommy Jones layout ( with just a little polish for push and control)

Riot- 4.5x 4, pin over ring, with polish

SuperSonic-4x5, pin next to ring, sanded (no polish)


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Re: Dry Lane Ball
« Reply #9 on: February 15, 2012, 11:34:07 AM »
This reminds me of an old hustler's trick (think rubber ball era).  Come into the bowling center late on a Friday night and leave one of your old balls on the rack.  Usually the good bowlers showed up late Saturday morning for pot games.  Come in, rent a pair of shoes, and start looking for the ball you left.  Ask if you can join the pot game, explaining that you're from out of town and don't have your bag with you.  Lose badly until you can get the stakes raised, then clean up.  --  JohnP
 



luvmykings wrote on 2/14/2012 8:49 PM:@ Monster Pike. Funny you should mention house ball. Last week guy bowling against us pulls one off rack and shoots 687!!! Bit of a cranker and really did magic with that ball. I have most of the aggressive balls. Had an old Ace but still hooking waay to much.





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Re: Dry Lane Ball
« Reply #10 on: February 15, 2012, 03:31:40 PM »
I would use my book avg - Skip that night..


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Re: Dry Lane Ball
« Reply #11 on: February 15, 2012, 04:32:18 PM »
Not the ball, it is the drill pattern on the ball and how you release the ball.



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Re: Dry Lane Ball
« Reply #12 on: February 15, 2012, 06:34:04 PM »
I use the C300 Scout reactive.  Weak core, so it doesn't hook a lot, but still carrys well.


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Re: Dry Lane Ball
« Reply #13 on: February 15, 2012, 10:47:30 PM »
Wasn't there an old rubber ball with the name Ace?  I remember seeing one back in the '60's but don't remember if it was the name of the ball or the name of the company.  If that was the one being mentioned, it would be weak enough, but probably not the Storm X-Factor Ace.
 
charlest wrote on 2/14/2012 10:55 PM:
You do realize that an Ace is nowhere near a weak ball. Even today. How bad a condition is it in and how weak is the drilling?
 
Give us more info to go on. Weak and dry have 49 different interpretations.
 
luvmykings wrote on 2/14/2012 8:49 PM:@ Monster Pike. Funny you should mention house ball. Last week guy bowling against us pulls one off rack and shoots 687!!! Bit of a cranker and really did magic with that ball. I have most of the aggressive balls. Had an old Ace but still hooking waay to much.





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Re: Dry Lane Ball
« Reply #14 on: February 15, 2012, 11:09:54 PM »
Gary,
 
I can hardly imagine anyone using an Ace hard rubber ball today.I had to assume it was the Storm Ace.


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