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General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: Frederick on May 04, 2008, 06:16:50 AM
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Whats the difference between lt oil, med oil, med/heavy oil, and heavy oil?
I can only assume it has something to do with the amount of units, ratio, or length of pattern or combination of all three. Is there a general rule of thumb which constitutes what the pattern is?
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ttt
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The way I see it, anything shorter than 35 feet is light oil, 35-40/41 medium oil and anything longer is heavier oil. But there are so many more factors than that. Volume, lane play, oil type, ratio, etc. You can have a 38 foot pattern with ridiculous volume and it may play like its 43 feet. You never really know until you throw a couple shots and then make your own assessments.
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In my experience, Short oil vs long oil refers to the LENGTH of the pattern downlane. Heavy vs light vs medium is the volume applied ACROSS the lane. In other words, you can have a short, heavy pattern, or a light long pattern.
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i agree with mumzie. you can have a short pattern, 35 ft, that is heavy oil becuase it has more units than a 50 ft pattern. obviously even with more units the 35 ft will prolly hook more than the 50 but still the units can be more on short and still be heavy oil.
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Shawn
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As said above, length and volume need to be addressed separately.
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Jon (in Ohio)
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This is all great stuff. But from my experience when people say heavy or light oil they are remarking on the fact that the ball is not hooking much which in general is length.
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My two regular houses both use 42' patterns on synthetics.
I would call one heavy, and the other is on the lighter side of medium.
They play very different. The medium house has a dry OOB from 7 to the ditch. Adult bumper bowling at it's finest. The other house (heavy volume) is a cranker's dream. The puddle is so deep in the middle, you could float a barge on it.
I still say you need to consider length and volume separately.
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As said above, length and volume need to be addressed separately.
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Jon (in Ohio)
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What he said.. Lol..
It is not uncommon that a shorter pattern is of a heavier volume to make the pattern hold up longer.. And many times a longer pattern is in the med-category but the middle is where a lot of the conditioner is most concentrated.. All depending what lines are intended to be played..
It all depends on what the laneman, tournament-manager or even the daily manager at that bowl is looking for..
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