While bowling tonight, I noticed that by the third game the ball reaction was getting really strong for the house where I bowl at (since it is usually flooded). After I got through bowling, the house owner came down to talk to me about the fact that he too had noticed the lanes getting extremely strong in the last game (he bowled tonight too), and he said that my ball was hooking in the heads in the third game (which I agreed). We went out on the lanes, looked down at the heads, and immediately noticed that the ball laydown points on the lanes were DRY. The owner had switched to a new test oil today, so this was the first experience with this new oil for him. Yes, you could readily see where every ball touched the lane, and there wasn't a trace of lane oil left on the laydown points. The owner picked up an 11 pound house ball, then proceeded to drop it on a spot in the heads.....the lane oil completely transferred to the ball, leaving the lane completely bare of oil!....and we are talking about the area on the lane where the oil was the heaviest!
We walked down and inspected several more lanes, and the results were similar....where ever the ball touched the lane surface, the oil was removed and the lane surface was dry. Needless to say, the owner was immediately talking about how this new test oil was not protecting his investment...it would only be a matter of time before the heads in this synthetic house would be completely burned out if he continued to use this lane oil.
The lane machine oil tank will be drained tomorrow, and the owner is switching back to the previous oil after only 1 night of testing....the dry heads were proof enough that this test oil (name withheld) wasn't protecting the lanes. I've never seen a lane oil react like this before, but the proof was sitting there just waiting to be seen.
