Post by: tonybowls on April 12, 2005, 05:20:38 AM
What Track ball out today is comparable to the Crunch Time? My Crunch Time has a skid flip reaction to it and I love how it works. I throw it straight up 5 and it smashes the pocket. What ball out now would give me a similar reaction? Thanks for your input.
Post by: solid9 on April 12, 2005, 01:26:52 PM
Post by: Ramtart on April 12, 2005, 01:27:34 PM
How about the Slash "Polished up?"
The slash has about the same #'s and the same core.
Slash looks to be a solid, the crunchtime looks to be a pearl.
What do you guys think?
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Post by: C-G ProShop-Carl on April 12, 2005, 01:32:33 PM
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Post by: clintdaley on April 12, 2005, 01:45:30 PM
Clint
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Post by: charlest on April 12, 2005, 05:19:43 PM
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Polished Slash will be earlier than a Crunch Time and have less backend, due to the cover on the Slash and the pearl in the Crunch Time cover. However, it will be very close, probably closer than anything else right now.
Clint
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Gotta agree with Clint.
Realize that the Slash is matte finished solid, while the Crunchtime is POLISHED half pearl and half solid.
Both are Power Plus Ex, the Track equivalent of Enhanced Super-Flex.
Post by: charlest on April 12, 2005, 05:49:56 PM
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Polished Slash!
The balls are basically the same, except the Slash rolls earlier, thats why everybody says a polished Slash. Other than that, the numbers are basically identical.
Like what Clint said, you will have less backend than the Crunch Time.
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Sorry, Sean,
I have to disagree most strenuously. A (true) pearl will never, ever roll exactly like a solid. It's just not in the physics of the design. Pearls are less elastic; they are not "harder". The cover just flexes less than solids and this is the reason why they get the length they do. Given the CT is only half pearl, it will still get more length for a given coverstock surface preparaton than a solid Slash. And its breakpoint will still look different, (maybe slightrly different, maybe a lot different) when the oil pattern allows it. (Some house shots make many balls look very much alike.)
Post by: charlest on April 12, 2005, 07:49:48 PM
Just because I disagree with you, doesn't make you or I more right than the other. We just disagree. Opinions are worth what you pay for them. It's important for the original poster to know there are 2 points of view. either of them could be the one he/she needs. He just needs to evaluate both for his purposes.
Post by: C-G ProShop-Carl on April 12, 2005, 11:00:37 PM
Clint said it best. A polished Slash is going to be a little sooner than a CrunchTime, with a little less backend....but "it will be very close, probably closer than anything else right now".
It cannot be said enough that the Slash is VERY overlooked on the market right now.
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Post by: charlest on April 13, 2005, 06:10:03 AM
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If someone took green scotchbrite to a crunchtime would it be more smooth like a slash?
Yes, of course. It would be more "like" and out of the box Slash, but still be longer. I'd only see doingthat if you didn't have a Slash or you needed to handle more oil. Start sanding the CT and it can handle more oil than you'd expect, and its ball path will begin to emulate a Slash.
Maybe it was because of the medium-light, wet/dry oil pattern, but I had to almost emasculate my CT by putting the pin over the bridge and stacking the CG below in grip center in order to reducing the way it arced and rolled so smoothly. I originally had a version of a stacked drilling, but it was way too early and too smooth.
Post by: Brian Pursel on April 13, 2005, 09:16:15 AM
The Power Plus EX is not equivalent to the Enhanced Superflex or regular Superflex. It is "weaker", providing more energy retention and, as such, more angularity when the ball loses speed. If you had to compare it to a Columbia coverstock, I'd say G4.
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