3 balls fail testing before the show and the lane man fired after the show

Quote from: Bowl_Freak on March 04, 2022, 10:14:53 AM

So i'm curious on if this is a thing with the Storm IQ Tour also. Many people say that the pre-2015 IQT roll significantly better than the newer versions and I never tested this out.

Milo is right with his response.

It's also like how people search out Utah poured Hustle Inks over San Antonio poured because of the slight differences

Wonder if it is a climate issue affecting the covers?  There is a big difference between Utah and Southern Texas and not just temperature wise.  San Antonio is a few hours away from the Gulf and Utah is up in the mountains.  Also, conditions have changed quite a bit over the past 7+ years (different oils have come out as well as lane conditions as a whole). 

Wonder if it is a climate issue affecting the covers?  There is a big difference between Utah and Southern Texas and not just temperature wise.

Given that it's a specific serial number range it's far more likely to be a manufacturing issu.e

That's why I jokingly mentioned the soakers earlier.   Seriously, for urethane, softness is the important parameter.  That's why softness, not age, should be the thing they measure and control.  If they care about integrity (wow, guess I'm agreeing with Sean Rash), that's where their efforts should go.  The USBC stupidly hung on to the static weight rule when basically everyone was throwing resin for years.  If they plan on doing similar with urethane, there will be a lot of unhappy consumers.  Of course there's no easy way to measure/enforce softness at the local level.  And no one should care for most leagues, but their might be some belly aching at some big tournaments if they decide to do something about urethane at our level.

I was guessing that hardness seems to play a big part since there has been a lot of super sanded urethane being used over the past few years, but only a certain one has been dominating.  I kind of doubt that their urethane formulation is head and shoulders above everyone else.

Sanding increases the aggressiveness without impacting hardness.  The purple hammer is a strange animal.  My purple pearl out if Kentucky never came remotely close to lane shining.  I think there is some type of additive that gives the cover its characteristic.  Also interesting that it has a very weak core.

One of the guys on our sport league throws a "soft" Purple Hammer. I haven't seen a cover look like that since getting the chance many years ago to actually hold a soaker Yellow Dot. It feels like you could scar the coverstock with your fingernail if you wanted to. On top of that, this guy has a rev rate of about 100-120, no exaggeration, and he gets uncommon carry and shape from that PH compared to any of his resin gear on that particular shot.

On the other hand, I think I could lob my old Slate Blue Gargoyle at a tank and knock it out of service. I have no doubt both my SBGs would punch legal. Same for my three-year-old Fever Pitch.

If you can find two of them to compare, put an old gray Angle up against a gold Angle and see how much softer the gold feels.