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General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: BrianCRX90 on January 10, 2009, 06:39:50 AM
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With the interesting idea that the PBA came up this week having a certain pattern for all odd number/left lanes and a different pattern for even number/right lanes, would it be possible to develop a 2 lane oiling machine?
Think of the benefits:
The mechanic would oil lanes in half the time.
You could program one side for a specific oil pattern and the other for a different pattern.
The challenge during league and tournaments.
If you think about it, most houses these days are synthetic and most I bowl at during league the lanes during 1st and sometimes during 2nd to 3rd shift play similar. So why do we play on a pair and not 1 lane? Oil the lanes different and there would be a new challenge. Most league bowlers during warm ups may not be completely lined up or talented enough to produce what would usually be a higher first game score and may take them the 2nd game or 3rd to figure it out. You are no longer aligned in the same spot on both lanes doing gradual or more then gradual adjustments without thinking about it, you would be forced to remember where you line up and how you throw the ball on the left lane vs the right lane. I think this should be the future 21st century way of USBC having a mandate for houses to do this anyways but would be difficult with the normal one lane oil machine to have to switch programs every lane or have to oil only the odd lanes across the house and then go back and do the even lanes a different way.
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It wouldn't be able to strip/clean the whole lane, though, because of the pin scanner camera positioned on the gutter cap downlane.
Jess
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Don't most of the newer oilers have it set up that you can dictate what lanes get what oil pattern? I might be wrong and if I am I appologize.
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Kyle
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We have a sport that is dying....an oil machine now weighs well over 100 pounds and costs $10,000+...
and we think we need one that will do two lanes at a time?
I think we'd be better served spending that research time and money fixing why we're hemorraging bowlers.
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that thing would be a b*tch to move unless u go hi tech and make it a walker
storage? lifting? these things make it unrealistic.
I think u would be better off with 1 machine that does each lane different.
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I cannot see anything positive coming from such an idea.
I would just oil the odd lanes going across, then do the evens coming back.
In my mind, that would be easier than remembering to switch the pattern on every lane.
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Jon (in Ohio)
aka: Rico Swervé~
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Well that part you are referring to I would envision it could somehow be able to fold it without heavy lifting.
Another idea I had is the left unit is actually the main unit where all the main (and heavy) part are and the other unit which is light and has no functions in it that make it heavy somehow extends out or folds over and you can program the main unit to oil two lanes at once and differently if you wish.
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The newer lane machines have the ability to store patterns in internal memory and all the lane man has to do to change the pattern is push a button(s).