Author Topic: Miracle Balls (Read 7894 times)

bullred · « **on:** July 30, 2011, 02:21:05 PM »

Must be getting close to League Season. Everybody trying to sell last years "Miracle Balls". If they were that good last season, why not keep 'em. Lane conditions are the same, stand left, throw right. Must be a macho thing. My ball is "prettier" than yours.

Juggernaut · « **Reply #16 on:** August 01, 2011, 09:26:26 PM »

The bowling ball market is CONSUMER DRIVEN. If people would stop believing all the "newer and stronger is better" crap, that the manufacturers have somehow been able to propogate and get the public to buy into, and began to demand higher quality and longevity from them before we forked over our hard earned dollars, you would soon see results.

I know, I know, blah blah blah, it'll never happen. The bowling public has been brainwashed into believing they needed stronger and stronger bowling balls, but the same results could be reached with much more durable covers and lower volumes of oil, we saw that during the plastic ball tournament.

Notice the absence of a plastic ball tournament this year? Wonder why? Probably because the ball manufacturers were horrified that people might realize they didn't need all that crap they're putting out after all. I mean, if your fortune depended on a lie, would you want people to know the truth?

Put a dynamic core in a pearlized urethane cover, lower the volume of oil down to less than 1/2 of what it is now (like they did in the plastic ball tournament), and you have plenty of friction available to get the same results you do now. And, you end up with a ball that will last at least several seasons, instead of a ball that only lasts several sets.

Nails wrote on 8/1/2011 10:03 AM:

Juggernaut wrote on 8/1/2011 9:13 AM:

Ya'll do know there is a way to totally eliminate "ball death", right?

and that would be....?

Telling it like it is.

Urethane Game · « **Reply #17 on:** August 02, 2011, 06:18:46 AM »

Good response Juggernaut.

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thirtyclean · « **Reply #18 on:** August 02, 2011, 07:57:48 AM »

Its a bowlers nature for some to have the "lastest and greatest", so last years balls are almost an

afterthought. I did purchase three new ones for the fall season. New fresh covers are always good,

although last years equip still working fine - as long as you take of them !

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completebowler · « **Reply #19 on:** August 02, 2011, 08:03:52 AM »

I drill mostly Ebonite International stuff and have little to no issues with ball death. I still have my original NV from 2007 and pulled it out last spring for the roll offs.

Sunshine n Lollipops wrote on 7/31/2011 8:18 AM:

That is exactly why I roll Brunswick. The covers refuse to die. I like that.

Russell wrote on 7/31/2011 6:38 AM:

BUT BUT BUT...The Taboo was NEW technology?!!!!???

I mean it was an amazing ball for 65 games when the cover completely died....I mean at least the Black Widow lasted 100 games before puking. Maybe that's ball companies' plan now. We'll just release the same crap with new names, but people won't notice because the same ball 4 years earlier doesn't hook now. It will just appear to hook 12 boards more because the old one is pretty much urethane.

Little off topic rant...but I completely agree with the OP. As the owner of a pro shop I'm jaded by the flood of "new" technology and "gotta have" balls that come out by the dozen every 3 months.

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bullred · « **Reply #20 on:** August 05, 2011, 12:04:02 AM »

Charlest....40 years ago was rubber moving to plastic. People had been using the same rubber ball for years. There was some hype. Softer rubber the only biggy. One manufacturer in Odessa Tx (Amburgey)trying to tweak the pancake block. Manhatten making a thicker cover. Balls still black, no incentive to buy because of cover colors. Along about '69-'70 Ebonite made a Black/White rubber that looked like a whale going down the lane.. The only reason people bought a new ball was because somebody stole their old one. Was a pleasure walking through the center with only single ball bags scattered on the floor.

Now. about 50 years ago there was some incentive to buy a new ball. The technical push had gotten to the "grip". But most folks just plugged and redrilled. AH, the smell of rubber being drilled, plus the black dust covering the "closet" where the drill press was located. Pitches were drilled just using a ruler and a "shift" of the ball. A clean release was problematic sometimes. The rubber cores were prone to 'sticking" and the "cork" cores were prone to tearing off the skin on your thumb.

A "teardrop" drill was popular as it let your hand come into contact with the ball.

No new finger inserts to try. No new thumb inserts to try. No new 600-4000 grit surfaces to try.

The "fingertip" drill was the talk. Also the "Easter" grip was getting some publicity. Lot of folks staying with the "semi". Some touting the new "Brunswick offset drill" witch morphed into the "Strickland offset"

No, 40-50 years ago were different. Nobody even paid any attention to what people were throwing, just the core!!!!!! bullred

bullred · « **Reply #21 on:** August 05, 2011, 12:09:13 AM »

Whoops!!!!! In last post, last word, I meant "scores" not "cores". In the 60's a core meant an "apple core".

Mercy, I'm getting old

Figjam Police · « **Reply #22 on:** August 05, 2011, 07:49:33 AM »

I still throw a 1987 Black U-dot......................and avg 236. figjam

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