Author Topic: Plastic Ball 800 Challenge - How long before someone would win? (Read 7137 times)

trash heap · « **on:** May 10, 2012, 04:14:12 PM »

Plastic Ball 800 Challenge - Only allow to use plastic ball with top weight (pancake core) only. Ball must be drilled to meet USBC specifications.

Oil Pattern would be THS. Center doesn't have to put anything out special (Just what the rest of leagues are using)

To win: Bowler must have an 800 series in 3 games.

I could see that in some areas of the country that this challenge would never be beaten. The issue I see with a plastic ball is going to be carry down, and most bowlers would struggle with it.

raiderh20boy · « **Reply #1 on:** May 10, 2012, 04:28:19 PM »

844 / 278-300-266 Roto Grip Blue poly

Unfortunately....in 1980!!!!!!!!

islenmetfan4life · « **Reply #2 on:** May 10, 2012, 08:03:59 PM »

I think this has happened and will happen more than you realize...

BradleyInIrving · « **Reply #3 on:** May 11, 2012, 12:49:47 AM »

Tom Jordan with a Straight Shot, 300, 299, 300, 299 for 4 game record..

Polish_Hammer · « **Reply #4 on:** May 11, 2012, 08:36:23 AM »

I have a friend who bowled an 800 with a white dot in the early nineties. And he was not a high rev player. stroker on a THS

budda · « **Reply #5 on:** May 11, 2012, 09:04:36 AM »

I shot 798 with a Hammer Spider spare ball two years ago...its not an 800.....but damn close with a peice of plastic.
Friend of mine shot 803 with a Tweety ball four or five years ago.

bpanes · « **Reply #6 on:** May 11, 2012, 11:28:29 AM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYEuo7bYlnA

278-279-300=857 with a Columbia Blue Dot

TheGame300 · « **Reply #7 on:** May 11, 2012, 12:04:57 PM »

In this day and age I could see a two handed bowler doing it. They still could get the power to carry even without a weight block. Look at Belmo when he bowls on the Cheetah pattern.

DON DRAPER · « **Reply #8 on:** May 11, 2012, 06:19:18 PM »

Are you sure Tom Jordan's great set was shot using a plastic ball ? This happened in 1989 and urethane balls had pretty much taken over.

Pinbuster · « **Reply #9 on:** May 12, 2012, 07:11:41 AM »

There were 300/800's shot with hard rubber and plastic before urethane was introduced.

The numbers were just very low compared to today.

If the new ball covers and cores were banned the numbers would probably drop to 5% of todays honor scores numbers but they would be shot.

Juggernaut · « **Reply #10 on:** May 12, 2012, 01:30:30 PM »

Quote from: Pinbuster on May 12, 2012, 07:11:41 AM

There were 300/800's shot with hard rubber and plastic before urethane was introduced.

The numbers were just very low compared to today.

If the new ball covers and cores were banned the numbers would probably drop to 5% of todays honor scores numbers but they would be shot.

I could live with that.......................

Roll2Win · « **Reply #11 on:** May 12, 2012, 04:01:40 PM »

Quote from: Pinbuster on May 12, 2012, 07:11:41 AM

There were 300/800's shot with hard rubber and plastic before urethane was introduced.

The numbers were just very low compared to today.

This is true and the numbers would more than likely be a lot lower today if we were to use hard rubber and plastic due to the huge volume of oil that is being used today compared to just 25 years ago.

Pinbuster · « **Reply #12 on:** May 12, 2012, 05:19:48 PM »

I believe the author was thinking that today only a league or two in the house would do this and that they would use their normal house shot.

While I agree that volumes are up today and the oil maybe slicker but I'm sure the proprietors would cut back on the oil volumes if all leagues would be using the old style balls, since the balls would not deplete them as in the past.

Also in the past on wood, the lanes around here would be stripped only once or twice a week, where today with the modern lane machines strip at least once a day.

Backends were generally pretty dead back then.

batbowler · « **Reply #13 on:** May 13, 2012, 02:47:34 AM »

Glenn Allison shot a 900 with a Columbia Yellow Dot!
Note:
All bowling balls except rubber are a form of plastic!!

"Plastic balls" are polyester.
"Urethane balls" are polyurethane (also a plastic).
"Reactive balls" are polyurethane with additives to increase porosity (still a plastic).
"Particle balls" are reactive balls with hard particulate added (still plastic).

A note from wikipedia: Polyurethane products are often called "urethanes". They should not be confused with the specific substance urethane, also known as ethyl carbamate. Polyurethanes are neither produced from ethyl carbamate, nor do they contain it.

Dave81644 · « **Reply #14 on:** May 13, 2012, 03:40:23 PM »

reminds me of the TV show/movie "highlander"
"there can be only 1" and that one is Glenn Allison

i have had 4 or 5 of each 300/800 in the last 10 years with my yellow dot
old wood lanes, no oil
sanded the lanes this year, need a little more ball now

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