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Gizmo823

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Laneshield video
« on: June 24, 2013, 05:30:20 PM »
Ok, so it's short and it's crappy, but I still don't have a camera, so I'm using my Iphone.  Due to confidentiality, I wasn't able to film the actual lane certification, but I have the equipment and will be uploading a video breaking it all down soon.  But for now, enjoy the short crappy look at faded purple lanes with orange dots, arrows, and no tracer boards.  I did also put a short description of Laneshield in the "about" section on the video, I can also get some more detailed information for those of you that are interested.  It's been fun to bowl on, that's for sure.  Horrific surface that failed so bad it wasn't in production a couple years after it was released.  This stuff has been rotated, flipped, turned, etc., to get more life out of it.  It's being replaced with synthetics next summer, and it's in such bad shape now that the owner is most likely going to pull it up and resurface the wood underneath before the season starts and just go with that for the upcoming season.  I really hope he does.  Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81EG6JyLWHI
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blesseddad

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Re: Laneshield video
« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2013, 05:47:38 PM »
How I do not miss this crap...my home house had this down for a while. Smartly, the new owners said enough is enough and they went to synthetic overlay last year. The shield was a joke from the beginning IMO. The last year of the shield, during roll-offs, for the only decent league in the house, the left lane of the roll-off pair developed a bubble in the process of bowling. Nothing like seeing the shield get lifted and then tossed in the air like you would a sheet before putting the sheet on your bed, so the roll-off could finish. Brutally bad idea for center owners trying to save a buck.

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Gizmo823

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Re: Laneshield video
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2013, 06:18:18 PM »
How I do not miss this crap...my home house had this down for a while. Smartly, the new owners said enough is enough and they went to synthetic overlay last year. The shield was a joke from the beginning IMO. The last year of the shield, during roll-offs, for the only decent league in the house, the left lane of the roll-off pair developed a bubble in the process of bowling. Nothing like seeing the shield get lifted and then tossed in the air like you would a sheet before putting the sheet on your bed, so the roll-off could finish. Brutally bad idea for center owners trying to save a buck.

Remember, you and your bowlers get what you pay for...good or bad.

Ah, someone who knows our pain lol.  Yeah, we see the "bubble removal" technique occasionally.  Our stuff is old enough that it has tears and cuts in it.  Some places are so bad that they had to patch it, meaning they cut out the damaged section, put a larger section over the hole and used clear packing tape to anchor it down.  So there's a seam all around it, and a depression in the middle of it.  One lane has that from the 15 board to the 32 board at the first set of dots, and another section at about 35 feet from 8-13.  Near impossible to avoid. 

However, it was pretty promising when it came out, and as it was billed as a 7 year surface, a lot of center owners (including our own) breathed a sigh of relief.  Obviously though pretty soon they figured out it was junk, and now isn't even in production for our owner to replace certain lanes that are torn up.  He had another center that went south on him and that's kept him from being able to upgrade this center.  Next year though definitely, he's got it all set up, just doesn't have time before leagues start this summer to change it all, because if you notice in the video, there's above ground ball returns all the way to the return.  Everything from the seating area through the decks is getting replaced.  Pinsetters will stay, but they have to do some concrete sawing to drop the ball returns down.  Lol I like starting straight up 10 with a Brutal Nightmare and playing 5th arrow with a Misfit by the end of the night because of how fast it burns up . . that's pretty awesome. 
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Re: Laneshield video
« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2013, 07:04:46 PM »
Niiice. Also a plus with the above lane ball returns.....
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Gizmo823

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Re: Laneshield video
« Reply #4 on: June 24, 2013, 09:27:38 PM »
Niiice. Also a plus with the above lane ball returns.....

Yep, so when you have to get deep . . it just doesn't happen on the right lane. 
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Re: Laneshield video
« Reply #5 on: June 24, 2013, 09:35:40 PM »
Wow thats crazy. Never see that stuff before, everything around here is synthetic. One of these days I'll get to bowl on old wood lanes, but hope its not with that stuff on them.

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Re: Laneshield video
« Reply #6 on: June 25, 2013, 04:39:44 AM »
I never new this even existed! Thanks man, i learned something today. But i got to ask, how big of a pain in the ass is getting an Oiler from pair to pair with those above ground ball returns?

Gizmo823

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Re: Laneshield video
« Reply #7 on: June 25, 2013, 07:44:23 AM »
I never new this even existed! Thanks man, i learned something today. But i got to ask, how big of a pain in the ass is getting an Oiler from pair to pair with those above ground ball returns?

There's barely enough room, but they have to go around the ball returns, the lane machine actually kind of slides underneath them, between the ball returns and the steps, but yeah it takes extra time and some careful power cord wrangling. 
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Re: Laneshield video
« Reply #8 on: June 27, 2013, 10:20:52 PM »
You are bringing back bad memories. That stuff sucked. Almost killed our tournament from the wonderful waves that would start at the heads and lead the ball to the pins.The lovely orange arrows and purple haze. Thankfully it was only down for a couple years and the owners found a way to get Anvilane installed. Brunswick swore we were the only ones to ever have these problems.

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Re: Laneshield video
« Reply #9 on: June 28, 2013, 08:10:14 AM »
You are bringing back bad memories. That stuff sucked. Almost killed our tournament from the wonderful waves that would start at the heads and lead the ball to the pins.The lovely orange arrows and purple haze. Thankfully it was only down for a couple years and the owners found a way to get Anvilane installed. Brunswick swore we were the only ones to ever have these problems.

Haha, they swore you were the only ones that had those problems but ceased production of it a couple years after releasing it.  Yeah, it was a universal complete failure.  Really good idea if you think about it, but it just didn't work out.  It was so soft and being held down by nothing but static electricity just doesn't seem like a recipe for success. 
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Re: Laneshield video
« Reply #10 on: June 28, 2013, 09:49:50 AM »
Our home center was bought by new owners last year. They pull this junk off the lane to consider going back to wood only and the finish had literally been destroyed by the amount of tape needed to keep this S$%& from moving around during bowling. To remove the tape meant removing more than just a little material off the heads, heads that, by the way, had been epoxied so many times, the support bars had been forced off the bottom of the lane. Thank God they did the SPL overlay and guess what the result was? With very rare exception, the bowlers all agree that this is so much better and they seem to be universally happy with the change. That, my friends, is something that almost never happens in bowling anymore...

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Re: Laneshield video
« Reply #11 on: June 28, 2013, 10:31:06 AM »
Our home center was bought by new owners last year. They pull this junk off the lane to consider going back to wood only and the finish had literally been destroyed by the amount of tape needed to keep this S$%& from moving around during bowling. To remove the tape meant removing more than just a little material off the heads, heads that, by the way, had been epoxied so many times, the support bars had been forced off the bottom of the lane. Thank God they did the SPL overlay and guess what the result was? With very rare exception, the bowlers all agree that this is so much better and they seem to be universally happy with the change. That, my friends, is something that almost never happens in bowling anymore...

Our center owner has been wanting to do something for years, but he's had some unfortunate circumstances.  I don't believe they have done anything to hold it in place, but just from oil getting through cracks onto the wood underneath, humidity, etc, and the fact that this stuff has been in place for 10 years may make removal and a resurface not an option.  We are definitely getting Anvilane next year though.  REALLY like to get some AMF HPLs, but that's not an option. 
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