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Barbarian2990

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Ball Death on R2X
« on: September 03, 2009, 05:01:17 PM »
I'm still questioning getting a virtual gravity i never really saw storm having trouble with their equipment dying. I'm just wondering if its just the fact that a million people bought these things and their meant for heavy oil so u had a bunch of people bowling on heavy oil that probably didn't clean their stuff and also the people resurfacing theirs didn't know the correct steps because the VG isn't a true 4000 grip it has 500 underneath it right?So i think thats why we got the results we did on this ball not lasting long. I never really heard of anyone complaining about the dimension dying and its the same cover stock so I'm just curious to see what u guys think.O and sorry again this post has been up a million times but just want peoples final say so we can put this on to rest.
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riggs

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Re: Ball Death on R2X
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2009, 06:38:44 AM »
All balls will "die" without proper maintenance.  Clean after every use and Ab back to the desired surface. When it gets truly oil soaked give it a Revivor treatment.
I have three VGs.  My fav has at least 300 games on it and is going strong.

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actsbowler21

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Re: Ball Death on R2X
« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2009, 03:56:46 PM »
still dont have a problem with my Virtual Gravity.. But then again, I take care of my equipment so I don't expect it.
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bear300x

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Re: Ball Death on R2X
« Reply #3 on: September 04, 2009, 10:14:20 PM »
I believe the gravity shift and the virtual gravity are the same material except the gravity shift is a pearl and I have over 450 on my gravity shift and it still hits like a truck and is the first out of my bag.
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greenefam

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Re: Ball Death on R2X
« Reply #4 on: September 04, 2009, 10:55:52 PM »
I have -

Gravity Shift with approx. 400 games
Dimension with approx. 200 games
Virtual Gravity with approx. 100 games
Second Dimension with approx. 200 games
Virtual Energy with approx. 50 games

All R2X, all with virtually no change in reaction since I bought them.  Clean your equipment after every use and hit sanded balls with abralon every 10 uses or so.  You will not experience ball death - period.
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Doug Sterner

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Re: Ball Death on R2X
« Reply #5 on: September 05, 2009, 09:54:17 PM »
Storm is making some of the best reacting and longest lasting coverstocks on the market today.

As long as the bowler performs regular maintenance as suggested by the manufacturer, the R2 coverstocks will last for a very long time.

Your pro shop guy should have a poster showing him the proper sequence for resurfacing Storm balls. It was actually part of Storm's ball reaction poster last season. I cut the advice part off the poster and threw the old ball reaction chart away :-) I would anticipate Storm's 2009-2010 poster to be the same. If not I am sure the information is on their website.
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