My teammate is a quality player, but he has some difficulty retaining axis rotation on his shots.  We bowl league on fairly dry lanes and his shots seem to roll out too quick and he leaves lots of weak 10 pins.  Last week, he stayed after league and put a piece of white tape on his axis to see if he could get more rotation.  I watched in amazement that he could get the tape to face him, but it would quickly lose this rotation and still ping at impact.  He tried a couple different balls, but still lost this rotation very quickly.  

How much will the ball dynamics (layout, surface strength, surface prep, etc.) affect this loss of rotation?  

How much does the axis tilt affect this loss?  I noticed that even when he could achieve what looked like 90 degree axis rotation, his tilt was around 0-20 degrees.

In many cases, the main reason for roll-out (= weak 10 pins) is too much surface for the bowler's speed on the oil pattern.
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"Just because you can do something does not mean you should do it."

Lefty, you hit it pretty well.  It looked like the 2-3 balls he regularly uses all have the pin either just above or below the fingers and the cg kicked out.  One of the balls he tries is a polished V2, which is a great ball, but really wants to roll quick on these lanes.  He has a couple polished and one with a smooth finish on it, so surface doesn't look too bad.  I told him he needs to make a trip to see Pinbuster's boss and update his equipment.  

These lanes seem to punish control and reward high risk types of games.  Guys that can get the ball to turn over hard on the backends can shoot monster scores.  There is, of course, a downside to this in that you can leave some nasty splits as well.  A real Flingers dream house.