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trushj

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Invasion - Burning Up? Not Enough Oil?
« on: February 08, 2010, 01:47:49 AM »
I'm hoping someone might be able to give me a recommendation on what I can do to stop this ball from burning up too early.

I had it drilled up last night, and can't for the life of me keep it consistent. Well, I take that back... I can consistently get it to burn up early and die, hitting around the 3 and 6 pin.  

I was reading the thread "Invasion Not What I Expected", and what was being talked about (before the thread got nasty) was maybe a bit of polish? Or take the surface down? Right now it's at the out-of-box condition.

I'm not sure what drilling layout my Pro-Shop guy used (just guessing by the Storm spec sheet, 4x4x3), but if anyone can help, here are a couple pictures on how it's drilled.

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I appreciate any suggestion. I was hoping to use it tonight at league, but I'm just not sure there'd be enough oil right now.

Thanks!

 

northface28

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Re: Invasion - Burning Up? Not Enough Oil?
« Reply #16 on: February 08, 2010, 01:10:09 PM »
I have not bowled at 3D in quite some time. From what I remember they put out more oil than Deer Park and they also have newer surface, Anvilane, as opposed to the really old surface at Deer Park. I would polish it, you should get more use out of it at 3D Bowl.
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trushj

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Re: Invasion - Burning Up? Not Enough Oil?
« Reply #17 on: February 08, 2010, 01:49:35 PM »
Yeah, I've noticed that 3D does play different than Deer Park, so hopefully I can make it work up there.

Too funny, I never thought that I'd run into anyone I bowl with on here! Thanks Courtney!


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Re: Invasion - Burning Up? Not Enough Oil?
« Reply #18 on: February 09, 2010, 06:21:12 PM »

I drilled my Invasion up 4 x 4 x 2 knowing that I would most likely never use this ball except on the Heavy PBA and Kegel patterns at tournaments and PBAX. As with all my new toys I still had to throw it on our THS. With this drilling I was crossing around 24 at the arrows out to about 5 (right handed tweener, med revs, 17mph) and back to the pocket. As expected the ball was burning up and not driving through the pocket. After reading these "Invasion not What I Expected Threads" I was curious and threw on some Storm Reacta Shine Reactive Polish and Cleaner to see what would happen. I threw three games of 237, 258, 227 for 722 three game set on fresh THS. So take MC's advice and polish that bad boy up. With the polish I was throwing 17 at the arrows to 10 standing at 28 , the polish delayed the reaction and the ball reached the pocket and drove through it with authority. I believe MC nailed this one, and for anyone else who is "burning up", polish should smooth things out for you, give it a try.  

I realize I have not posted here much, but read the reviews on any ball I am planning on purchasing, but I felt I should post here and put to rest one of the problems some people seem to be encountering.

Xcessive_Evil

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Re: Invasion - Burning Up? Not Enough Oil?
« Reply #19 on: February 10, 2010, 12:17:04 AM »
As these guys said, definitely add polish.  Adding more surface will just have it burn up that much sooner.  I'm going to go with 4000+ polish myself for league tomorrow, but will go with 4000 dull for regionals/etc.  I'll try to post my findings afterwards.
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