With the interesting idea that the PBA came up this week having a certain pattern for all odd number/left lanes and a different pattern for even number/right lanes, would it be possible to develop a 2 lane oiling machine?
Think of the benefits:
The mechanic would oil lanes in half the time.
You could program one side for a specific oil pattern and the other for a different pattern.
The challenge during league and tournaments.
If you think about it, most houses these days are synthetic and most I bowl at during league the lanes during 1st and sometimes during 2nd to 3rd shift play similar. So why do we play on a pair and not 1 lane? Oil the lanes different and there would be a new challenge. Most league bowlers during warm ups may not be completely lined up or talented enough to produce what would usually be a higher first game score and may take them the 2nd game or 3rd to figure it out. You are no longer aligned in the same spot on both lanes doing gradual or more then gradual adjustments without thinking about it, you would be forced to remember where you line up and how you throw the ball on the left lane vs the right lane. I think this should be the future 21st century way of USBC having a mandate for houses to do this anyways but would be difficult with the normal one lane oil machine to have to switch programs every lane or have to oil only the odd lanes across the house and then go back and do the even lanes a different way.
