1. Has anyone else experience an occassion where a ball just took on a different reaction? I have a 920T which is drilled to be smooth and it gets very little to no use on league nights because it's for tournaments. However, the last 3 weeks I've pulled the ball out due to my 916AT just not really giving me the reaction I need for the night, and instead of my smooth controlled hook I'm getting a ball that just un-characteristically snaps to the pocket. It has been completely un-expected, but the ball has done very well for me. I want to get on a sport shot and see if this is just because of the maintenance at our center.

 

2. Has anyone had their center put new pins in mid-season?

I just found it odd. Usually our center would do this type of maintenance over the Summer so that it didn't effect their league bowlers. My average has stayed the same since the change, but it has changed the charcteristics of how many of the lanes play.

I don't know about your centers but, our center rotates the pins out very two months or so.  It prolongs the life of the pins.  In my experience new pins don't "carry" as good as old pins, older pins just seem to fly around a little better.

I always thought that older pins should fall easier, but for the past few months our old pins have been sliding across the pin decks more than I have ever seen, resulting in a lot of out-of-ranges or pin re-spots.  I suspect the pin decks are not all that clean but others have told me it is the pins and that the new pins will fix that problem.

 

 

I think when the new Twisters come in, they'll probably set new records for sliding unless/until they can get the pin decks cleaner.