my m.m. is drilled    pin 4   ---- mb  4 1/2   ----pin is 1 1/2  from val ---- i dont get the reaction im looking for. it does not seem to have the back end that i really want?  any suggestions?

You said you arent getting the backend you really want. This is a ball that wasn't intended to be long and strong and then a 4 inch pin is a pretty strong layout regardless of distance from VAL. This is not going to be a long and strong ball. Does it have a balance hole? Depending on what you are actually looking for from it, will depend on where to go from here. Surface adjustments would be the first place to start.
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Louis Franzetti

Track Regional Staff Member

i will play different lines, ill either play straight up the 1st arrow OR  ill play left and try to swing it. the ball does NOT  have a balance hole.  what i mean by re-action is  it either over re-acts or it does not re-act enough. very lane tempermental -- at least to me. i have the cover very dull. any suggestions?

Did you check around which axis the ball actually stabilizes in the back end? With a 4" pin to PAP, a slight move of your PAP upwards can make the ball migrate towards the pin in the back and instead of the intended PSA axis. the result is a rather rolly, tame back end, a kind of pin axis drilling. Ball shows good midlane, but then seems to flatten out before it enters the pins. I have seen this on a couple of balls around here that had a strong layout on them, e. g. a LevRG, an Attitude Shift and a Black Pearl. Could therefore a drilling mistake, setting the ball up without checking your (current) PAP. If this is the case, you cannot do much, you'd probably have to plug an redrill the ball.
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