My house is using a 2 year old kegal unit, which seems to put a rather erratic pattern. One day, the shot is fine, on another, releasing the ball at warp 6 may keep you near the pocket. We use "control" as the oil of choice. It was chosen at the advice of the applications person when the Kegal arrived. The pattern is tapered, oiling, at least what is programed, to 39 feet forward, 37 in reverse. On those "strange days, the oil pattern looks scattered and blotchy, if that makes any sense. We did try to bring the shot down even further; but the back-ends were non-existent. The patterens in the book actually call for shorter patterens; which is a very bad thing.

Any advice or comments out there?
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It is a Kegal  Pheonix unit. Once again, it is a newer unit, and there is routine maintance on the system.
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we have the Kegal Pheonix/s tournament edition.  The only thing i can think of is take the spray nozzles of the front and clean them really good, to be sure that your getting consistant oil taken off the lane, and make sure your mixing the solution strong enough, so it can take the oil off!!!! Yes it does have a 100 mile checkup that will pop up on the screen when needed.  Another thing you can check is the buffer make sure the brissles are not stuck together and clean them good (with an air compressor).  hope that helps!
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with the phoenix we have mentioned above you do oil and strip at the same time going down, with the stripper being sprayed out and the cloth sucking the old junk up, then the oil and buffer is behind all that.
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The responses are all great. Checked over the unit last nite, and the first thing I noticed was the bristles that oil indeed were matted. Another issue found was that some of our crack young hired hands are using the funnel we use for the stripping soultion was also being used to place oil inot that tank. Though minor, it is another problem thatcis combined with multiple other ones.
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Calling some of the staff members a moron could be seen as a step up. I their defense, they were not mixing the two together, simple using the same funnel to fill each up. We caught this last nite when one of the better folks who work there had the task of oiling.
When you talk about the "soft velcro:, is that above and next to the bristles, and collects dust and lint almost after every pass?
Also, what type of oil is being used out there. I underdstand the "control" may not be the best.
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