BallReviews
General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: Elimeno Pee on January 22, 2014, 04:55:25 AM
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Motiv Tank
RG Grenade
Storm Natural
Storm Super Natural
what else is out right now that's Urethane? which are most old school cores?
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The Grenade has been retired for a couple years now. The LT-48, U2?, ......
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The Grenade has been retired for a couple years now. The LT-48, U2?, ......
LT-48 is a solid reactive and the U2 was discontinued. This is what I found as far as balls currently on the market go.
Storm: Natural Pearl, Super Natural, Polar Ice Hybrid, Mix Solid and Mix Pearl
Motiv: Tank
Lord Field: Burning Up
Hammer: Blue Hammer remake
The polar ice and both mixes all have pancake (3 piece) cores. Other balls have symmetric two piece cores.
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The Brunswick Karma Urethane is recently discontinued but I've still seen them all over the place.
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Some of the listed balls might be sold as a urethane, but they are not true urethanes like the formulas 15/20 years ago. Balls like the Grenade, Natural, Natural Pearl, SuperNatural, Blue Hammer (remake), Polar Ice Hybrid, Karma, and U2 (remake) have some resine mixed in. The only true urethanes I know of are the Mixes from Storm and the Tank are the only 2 balls I know of on the market that are 100% true urethane. The visionary Ogre urethane was a true urethane ball but that is gone now I believe.
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Some of the listed balls might be sold as a urethane, but they are not true urethanes like the formulas 15/20 years ago.
I suspect, for most people interested in urethane balls these days, that's a given. The only ball close to what we used to consider to be "True" urethane was the AMF Hype Urethane. For me it was impossible to get a true shine on that ball.
Balls like the Grenade, Natural, Natural Pearl, SuperNatural, Blue Hammer (remake), Polar Ice Hybrid, Karma, and U2 (remake) have some resine mixed in. The only true urethanes I know of are the Mixes from Storm and the Tank are the only 2 balls I know of on the market that are 100% true urethane. The visionary Ogre urethane was a true urethane ball but that is gone now I believe.
The Polar Ice and the Mixes both have the same formulation, according to Storm's web site, U1S. I have the Blue/Black and I can pretty much assure you its reaction is as close to true urethane as I can remember. Its reaction was nothing like the reaction I got from the SuperNatural and the Avalanche Urethane. Both were more resin-like than urethane.
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I missed that on the Polar Hybrid. Interesting!
I agree, if you can easily polish a "urethane" ball, it has some resin in it and the ball is not a true urethane shell.
3835
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I suspect, for most people interested in urethane balls these days, that's a given. The only ball close to what we used to consider to be "True" urethane was the AMF Hype Urethane. For me it was impossible to get a true shine on that ball.
F28, my eye... :)
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I suspect, for most people interested in urethane balls these days, that's a given. The only ball close to what we used to consider to be "True" urethane was the AMF Hype Urethane. For me it was impossible to get a true shine on that ball.
F28, my eye... :)
I assume you mean F28 was the cover strength as posted by AMF on their web site.
In that case, yes, I agree. This ball was much stronger than that.
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There is also, the ball used in the teen masters.
If you go to the teenmasters website and register, you are then eligible to buy the "pro ball" they used. One of them is urethane.