Vegatable oil, linseed oil, ear wax oil???

I bowl in a house that is just frankly hard on the left.

Another place where the difference is almost 30 pins between the high righty and lefty!

Talked to the manager and he claims the pattern is the same.

Watched the other day and saw some real good strong lefties(17 to 19 mph off the handusing pearls and barely getting any push down the lanes.)

On the right I noticed an old codger throwing about 13 off the hand throwing an ICON original(heavy particle oiler).  He had tons of push, hold area and could carry with a slight inside loop attack(very little hand).

I talked to the lefties and we all agreed, none of us could carry from inside on even the smallest of swings yet the oil pattern forced us there and though we could hit the pocket it was always weak and left flat 7s.

So we move outside get the dirt have great carry and have very little hold area and must throw with about as much speed as possible.

Actually I have started to beat this pattern with a fine grit Sonic Boom outside 9 with a pin up no kick out drilling.  Ball must be delivered with a lot of loft, speed and accuracy but now I am up to almost 3 boards of strike area.

Manager claims in a recent chart of lanes that pattern is same on both sides with a lot of oil from 12 to 12 and then very little outside on Brunswick Anvilane.  Shot is also supposedly in the 40 foot range.  I asked the manager is it steep, "ie is there avery low volume of oil after 20 feet?, Yes!".

Outside bowlers who come for a season and then leave.  (Most local 230 average lefties stop in average 204 to 207 for a season and are gone), say the oil is just cheap and degrades in no time.

I guess my question is what is this crap.  Why are righties with very little hand able to play and carry inside with all the push and hold area they want while lefties with much more hand and speed can move in and play similar lines and get no carry.  Thus are forced outside to play a non hold area shot to get carry.

What is the dynamics of what is going on here??  Expert oilers?.


REgards,

Luckylefty
PS same owners have several centers around including a wood center that has many of the same dynamics.  Very jumpy on left but must be played outside.  Righties can go in and carry with a lot of area and heavy partilcles.
PPS it almost appears as if there shot has a shorter oil pattern and more volume despite what charts of pattern say.

Well isn't this interesting.

After pointing out the disparity in averages and showing the manager two bowlers,
one on right with 5 boards of area and one on left with maybe two boards of area if he was lucky.  He indicated they would check the oiling machine.

Mysteriously they discovered the machine had a stripper problem.  Funny thing is the shot on the right looks the same all of a sudden on the left we've got backend so that we can move our ball and initial flight path into the oil now and get both carry and  backend from the inside.

I wondered how all those five rev righties could carry from the inside and I couldn't???

REgards,

Luckylefty
Oh no!

A little more detail on this problem and the correction.

Last night I was in there banging out 220 30 40 and 50s like I was good or something.

All of a sudden I've gone from having 1 1/2 boards at 45 feet to strike up to a normal league shot sort of thing of near 3 at the arrows and up to about 7 at the breakpoint.  Multiple balls work and my pin up balls are now too strong.

For both sides they've upped the backend.  However the righties who have been playing and stiking near the 2nd arrow are really po'd as they say it is dry.

They have not moved inside for two years! However now I can also do 2 and 1 moves and continue right on striking.

In talking to a part time oiler he said, "Oh yeah, all they did is replace the squeegee in the stripper"!

Which leads to several questions for our oilers and oiling experts.
1.  Do all oiling machines have "squeegees"?
2.  If not which brands do?
3.  Is there a seperate squeegee for each side of lanes?
4.  How often do they need to be changed?
5.  Do they get oil logged?
6   How expensive are they?
7.  How come there was a difference in the pattern where the area on the right has not changed at all, for the bigger handed medium speed righty it has been about 8 boards on right at break and it still is and on the left it was 1 board and now near 8.?

ONe comment.  Unless they put on the old squeegee they are all dead!

I'm used to 1 1/2 boards of area at 45 feet!

REgards,

Luckylefty
PS I think they were down to about 3 lefties in the house over 180 anyway nobody asked the questions!
PPS your answers appreciated.