Author Topic: Screened lanes? (Read 913 times)

toadbam · « **on:** September 02, 2004, 04:21:25 AM »

One of the places I bowl is a really old wood house. High scoring, a bowling alley in the nostalgic sense of the word. Well, they resurfaced this year (They do every two), and apparently they screened the lanes. I've heard this term before with regard to them doing it at NBS, but nobody has ever explained to me what it means. Can anyone help?

tenpinspro · « **Reply #1 on:** September 02, 2004, 12:30:50 PM »

Hey Toadbam,

Screening a lane usually meant that they did a lighter cut on the lanes vs a complete sanding. Older wood lanes had more wood to actually cut and sand into, the newer wooden lanes were not as thick so some proprietors I know would alternate the process of sanding and screening each year as not to cut into the wood as much. If a house didn't have enough wood left, they would tend to also "screen" the lanes in order to prevent from removing arrows and dots. Hope this helps some...
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scotts33 · « **Reply #2 on:** September 02, 2004, 12:52:38 PM »

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Screening doesn't even take all the old finish off. It just preps the finish so that it takes a better recoat.

Exactly as Bob says. Screening is done with a floor like buffing machine not a lane sander at least in my experience of running a center. Not sure how it's done all over the world.

Screen is called such because the material used to screen is just that a screen like you use on old screen doors. It roughs up the lane so that the new coats adhere to the old lane surface. More than one coat is pulled over the wood surface just an FYI.

Scott

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