anyone else see it get insanely oily fast? and almost reacts like a pearl urethane cover?

didnt break the cover of mine yet, but did to two friends of mine and didnt see much of a difference.

I drilled my fire road pin above fingers with cg stacked on grip line.  The ball is really too clean for use on fresh.  Ball rolls better for me when lanes are broken down. I've had this ball for a while but unsure if I want to hand scuff cover with 4000. Undecided where this ball needs to fit in my arsenal.

tried some acetone, same thing just took a tad bit of shine off but same result.. doesnt seem like an issue of coverstock finish.. just how it was actually made.

My out of box experience was that the FR was a little squirty for my style of play. Now this is not new to me as I tend to have to take factory shined balls and take them down to get the shine off and then bring them back up. I just like to know that I can replicate a surface if it rolls well for my game. I always try to see what the factory finish or shine rolls like first then make the changes. This is more for reference for customers or fellow "Storm and Roto heads".

I had some sort of film on mine also when I drilled it and threw it the first few times. I remembered my experience sometimes with factory reacta-shine balls and immediately hit it with a 4000 pad with a little "lean" on it. Totally different ball reaction. The squirtiness went away and the ball picked up consistantly at the spot.

If I recall most ball companies put a factory finish on a release because their testing indicates where they want to try and place a ball in their line-up. Most of the ball buying public does not educate themselves on sites like this to learn they are allowed to experiment with finish and surface. Try some different surfaces, take it back down to 500 and bring it back up. See if that changes things.

I know from personal experience, it has changed my perspective on a ball immediately and kept me from shelving a potential must have ball.

i will try to get a picture up tomorrow or wednesday night, and i have changed the surface. i took it down to 3000 with a new pad and left it at that and i got the same result, just not as fast. the cover seems to just not be able to handle oil. if i throw more than a certain number of shots in a given time frame, the surface stays oily and has a film on it, and doesnt come off when cleaning it, but goes away over night. but while bowling, it can only handle x amount if shots until it stops moving

Have seen similar problems with the Fire Road...

IMO the ball was to highly sanded...

Knocked the cover back to 2000 pad...then applied the polish...

Also put a weight hole at 45 degrees from the center of grip even with the top
of the thumb hole...a 1" bit about 1" deep...{ if a weight hole was not already in
ball }

Problem seems to be solved...