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General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: Moon57 on December 19, 2007, 12:44:59 AM
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I was goofing around in practice the other day and threw a 10lb plastic alley ball at the ten pin. It was skidding all the way towards the ten but then started to drift left. This is while the ball was still skidding. The only thing I could think of was the corner of the pin deck was raised up a little. I don't know anything about lane construction but would like to know if the corner could be raised a little to make it harder to spare the ten? I've had a ton of trouble with the ten this year where last year I didn't, and I'm not alone. Just wondering if this could be a sneaky way to keep averages down.
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Moon
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don't think so... even if the corner is raise a tad...
Is this on every lane this way? maybe the ball just hooked a tad?
I don't know your style but you could ask the staff or take a look by yourself...
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I suppose thinking the corner of the pin deck was raised was a little wrong. It's just I can't tell you the number of times I've thought I've had the ten covered only to have it drift left enough to miss. I suppose part of the problem is the parched outsides that even plastic hooks on. I drilled up a ball with the pin 6 3/4" to the right of the grip centerline and inline with the midline thinking if I threw the ball right up the back the core would already be in a stable position. This has given me the best look yet at the ten. As long as I come straight up the back the ball goes dead straight.
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Moon
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nope called friction of the pin deck making the plastic ball hook nothing more imo.
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If I am not mistaken, some of the older pin decks set down on some type of framing that I believe could be adjusted....raised or lowered and possibly tilted. Although I don't think that is your problem. For your ball to make a move like that off of a tilt, the pin would probably fall over.
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Was it a sudden move left? They have the "bumpers" for kids that sit in the gutter of newer bowling alleys. We had one that was not all the way down so when the ball would get close to the gutter by the pins, it would hit the lip sticking up and move a bit.
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Older, poorly maintained, vinyl on steel gutters can lift up at the edge of the lane and will sometimes be above the surface of the lane. One house I worked at had this problem on a few lanes and the metal would get sharp, or was sharpened when the wood was resurfaced.
That could be a possible cause.
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The house I learned to bowl in, an ancient 10-lane house, had a reputation -- Lane 6 was known as the "hook lane" or the "ghost lane."
You could take any bowling ball, drilled any way you please, and roll it slowly down the right side. It would curve left about 5-8 boards every time from the front of the lane to the back. The lane was either warped or tilted.
For some reason, it always passed inspection every year, but it always had that hook characteristic to it.
Did it help or hurt when actually bowling on it? Hard to say. I never got good enough before I left there to either make use of it or be put in a position to have to fight against it. I sprayed the ball around like an idiot back then. We never saw scores from that pair significantly higher or lower than the rest of the house, either.
But I could definitely see it being possible.
Jess
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I think it's just sour grapes on my part for missing so many ten pins this year. But I hopefully figured out a solution at this place last night. I tried putting a little reverse hook on my spare ball. Did better but what I'm gonna do is drill a ball like it was for a left hander. That way if I come straight up the back or put a little reverse hook on it, it will curve to the right. Then maybe I can quit my crying.
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Moon
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instead of buying a new "spare ball" why not just come up the back of a plastic ball? Or 'break' your wrist on the spare shots so the ball doesn't have many revs...
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Tried the plastic ball but it's so dry if I make a mistake and put any kind of turn on it it will hook away enough to miss the ten. Tried my left handed drilling idea yesterday and it worked pretty good. If I came straight up the back the ball curved very slightly to the right. If I put a little turn on it, it went straight or very slightly to the left. I think I've found the solution for me.
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Moon
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So many questions, so little time but I'm having fun.