Illegally Softening Purple Urethanes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- Josh and Corquis make their purple hammers very illegal.
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I can think of about 3 league bowlers with 150 averages that will now copy this video.
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Not a league bowler but yes I will lol jk
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Cool video guys. I never knew this was a thing! Only problem is being a 2hander i want less hook instead of more haha. Great info and video Corquis needs to watch his language haha!
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WAY BACK (late 70's/80's?) We used to soak Columbia yellow dots in MEK then stick them in a snow bank to pass the hardness test pre tournament LOL and in reality, it never really worked all that well because of the lack of consistency, but back then we didn't have 1000 different styles of bowling balls to choose from like in today's game.
In the seventies we did not need to soak the Columbia yellow dots because we had Columbia red dots which were so soft the ABC had to ban them out of the box. Maybe you are talking early 1980s after red dots were banned? In the seventies, the secret was to get a yellow dot "bleeder" that was just a tick legal. Those were the PHs of our day. We had "plastic" (polyester) bowling balls and rubber bowling balls, and that was all. The lanes were wood and each was unique, not synthetic and the same. And you are right, technology had not come as far as today with all the fancy-smancy cores to get just the right spin on just the right lane. And we didn't know what the oil pattern was before we bowled, we had to waste frames finding the oil, then finding our line. Bowling a 300 back then was news in the next day's newspaper. Now they are so common, juniors roll them. I am not complaining! I still love to watch the game. One more thing -- we had to carry our bowling bags, no wimpy wheels. 😂🤣😂
@@amiable1603 yup yup and yup late 70's spilling into 80's for sure .... I do remember the LT48 and we kept wondering how can this be legal when others are not? And yes a 300 was something to be proud of, you got a ring and everything, but they checked the lanes, the pins, ball, everything to make sure all was on the up and up. And yup again on wood lanes which have such a sweet warm sound in the center compared to today's harsh synthetics. Had yellow dot, blue dot for spares and the LT48. If you had Columbia double ball bags, you were "serious". LOL even the amateurs. But no wheels. Buck Up. 🤣🤣
@@sams2960 I had a blue dot for spares. I had to use it for strikes once on dry lanes and it was fun! Funny you mentioned the LT48. I liked my yellow dot because I could move around to different lines. My LT48 only worked one line -- outside the first arrow (third to fourth board), which was the Johnny Petraglia line. Weird. Oil was the enemy of my LT48, short or long patterns rendered it useless. But with the yellow dot, it was just matter of finding another line. They don't give rings for 300s anymore? I have two. Do they give anything? And yeah, they meant waiting around late for the ABC rep to show up and inspect the lanes. I tested the idea of becoming an ABC rep, going out to check lanes with one guy a few times. But then all my buddies started making fun of me. They thought the reps were power-hungry bowlers who could not perform, so I stopped. $1 a game was expensive, 50-cents a game was pretty normal, but everyone was looking for 3 games for a buck, or four games for a buck. I got free bowling at my home house, because I coached the juniors every Tuesday and Saturday. "Free bowling," all that practice, that is how you get good. Tell me more of what you remember? I am enjoying this trip down memory lane.
@@amiable1603 smoke filled bowling centers - don't miss that - but ashes were your friend on sticky approaches, much better than any powders that made them slick as ice. Oh and someone actually had to keep score on the overhead projectors and you were expected to be honest in open bowling on your frame counts (although the control counter did have frame meters). No computer to respot pins knocked down by machinery, you had to wait for a pinspotter mechanic to get the call from the counter and do it from the back. Bowling centers for some reason back then had the most greasy but the best fried chicken ever too. LMAO And onion rings how can one bowl league without an order of onion rings? ha ha ha ha ha
@@sams2960 YES! Just this last weekend I was watching a live stream of a junior tournament and I told my wife about using ashes to slide. You aren't exaggerating when you say "smoke-filled." Oh my god, late on league nights there was a cloud. After bowlers filtered out we would open double-wide doors on both ends of the concourse to air it out. Did you ever use a raw potato to suppress swelling on your bowling thumb? I remember when my whole team showed up at the state tournament wearing raw potatoes on our thumbs. We thought we were so cool! You could buy a cheapo Columbia white dot for $30, drilled and engraved. Better balls could cost as much as $60 tops. You could buy "garbage" balls for under $20 at hardware stores, K-mart, etc. We used to find out the weight of the pins at every bowling alley (they varied) and factor that into our choice of ball for tournaments or travel league. They surely must still do that? As technological as it has become? And now they are allowing bowlers to use abrasives on the shell of balls? Back then that was illegal as it could be. Junior bowling shirts, covered with award patches, some as meaningless as "three splits in a row." Here is another one -- Muscular Dystrophy Charity Bowlathons, where we bowled 20 games overnight ending about 6:30am.
I believe from bowling stories of old that Don McCune father of the super talented Eugene McCune was the first to do this back in the day , truthfully id have to say it's still being done today un-knowingly to many, we have a guy at our local scratch sweepers taking everyone's cash that gets the ball to peel off the out of bounds consistently and he's not exactly high rev's either. Crazy stuff
The Purple Hammer is already a fairly strong cover on modern house shots, so soaking the cover takes it from useable to almost too much hook. Do this same thing to a Mix or Sniper, very weak urethane covers, and you'll transform a spare ball into a decent hooking ball.
You don't have to soak the latest 73D reactive balls. They already hook 30+ boards out of the box. Why bother soaking urethane balls to get a few more boards out of a low-hooking ball, when you can buy a new reactive resin that can hook 30+ boards.
Lefty throws it good!
Do another video but with a reactive ball
We were thinking about doing it but the purples hooked so much we just think it would be horrible results. It was almost impossible to strike and we were bowling on a 43ft 25mil house shot.
Do it to a mix bowling ball from storm................
what about a pearl reactive
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Old news did that back in the 60's.
Actual good leftie
Did you find that the soaked PH was more prone to getting marked and chipped up? Also, could you test the soaked PH on a flat pattern to better demonstrate the advantages of a soft urethane cover?
That’s insane how much that hooked!
Illegal, yes...but it would be impossible for anyone to know it was done to a ball...and people are going to do this for sure (if they haven't been doing it already.)
Wouldn't be impossible if they had a hardness gauge. PBA used to check hardness at every tournament.
Bruhhhhhh! Ima 2 handed bowler but I wanna learn how to bowl one handed like you my guy like frfr! any tips? all of my balls exact pitch black have 2 holes so the 15lbs pitch black i have is the only ball i can use to practice one hand.....but i bowl 14 every other ball lmao.
Hi I'm korean Your video is uploaded to the Korean bowling community and leave a question
Korean bowling generally has a higher oil volume than the U.S. so this video very intersting.
How about think if I try this way on my black widow urethane?
How many hours did you soak it in methyl ethyl ketone?And how did you wipe the surface?
He hates that house come bowl at rifle Colorado it will make that house seem godly 😭🤣
We used to call those soakers. Some guys, not me, would soak their plastic balls in MEK to soften the cover.
I have an old Pitch Blue try this on..
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The ball reaction your getting with tha SOFT balls. I get with a DIRTY Supra ENZO!!!
🙄 you're not very smart I see
I’m on it
I get the point of the video, but why it's illegal is stupid since you could just use a ball that hooks more.
It's illegal because you are chemically altering the ball. For many players, the shape that urethane creates blends out conditions that are too over/under for stronger reactive equipment. By softening the ball, you can get more hook potential by still keeping the controllability at the end of the pattern. It's still not for everyone though.
It's illegal because it makes the ball too soft. If softer balls were allowed, you would have to buy a new ball every few weeks because your old ones are all wore out and chewed up. Is that what you want?
@@Kawboy65 Little known fact. Reactive resin balls were chemically altered so they can hook 20+ boards out of the box. Without the chemical alteration, they would be plain urethane balls.
why is this illgal. it really didnt help you alot or at all.
It's the bowling equivalent of corking a bat in baseball.
Do you want to buy balls so soft they wear out and fall apart in weeks?
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I'm gonna do it! 🤫
Daymn this content puts a smile on my face it is so rare to see normal one hand bowlers these days
This is what happens when you give an immature child a bowling channel.
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It looks like you are projecting your immaturity because you took time out of your day to attack him for no good reason at all.
Wow.. The kid did nothing wrong. He demonstrated the difference softening of a bowling ball makes. This helps people understand all the new rules around urethane and why softer bowling balls create an unfair advantage. Urethane gets softer as it ages and the first two years of purple hammers were way softer.
Lmao people get so mad at urethane 🤣