| Quote: | | | Originally Posted by REV300 | | | | |
| ...how do you find the lanes? Do the lanes or the machines 'scratch' or track up your ball? I am asking this because I used to bowl there when they are still using old wood lanes and my balls are track up very badly. Can see many track marks on the balls that I had to send them in for recon to get rid of. Stopped bowling there ever since.
I went there three weeks ago and noticed they had changed the lanes to synthetic, but I did not bowl that day. Just wondering have the lanes improved and does it still track up the ball? | |
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i think to be fair o everybody,its part and parcel of bowling to have the ball tracked up or scratched be it at planet bowl or wherever place there is in this world
reason being...nobody can ever make sure that their lanes are 100% faultless 24/7
thats why in every bowling center on their notice board there will always be a rule saying that the bowling center will not be responsible for any equipment damaged during bowling there
and if the bowling center decides to offer u to re-con the ball its a gesture of good will
lets be frank,i am very sure nobody will wanna have their equipment faulty for the bowlers cos if they do not maintain their equipment well and the equipment starts to damage the bowler's equipment,nobody would wanna bowl there and they will lose their business...right?
u are bowling on wooden lanes,so its very natural that the balls will be more tracked up than while bowling on synthetics or wooden with synthetic overlays
but have u ever tried bowling on a brand new bowling center o brand new synthetic lanes and the ball got badly cut up?
i did ...i was bowling at the 1st ever cosmic bowling center in singapore when they 1st started business and its a brand new ball when i rolled it down the lane but when it came out from the ball return,it was like as if it had went tru 1000 games..all the bowling center did offer was just a recon cos of the house rule stated there
the most recent case was at the latest bowling center in town and i just got my sure fire out of the pro shop and i purposely went down there to bowl and 3 throws later i had a scratch of the size of a ten cent coin and what can i do?
house rules apply...in hokkien we call it "lan lan blame it on ourselves for bad luck"
thats why when the bowlers here got their balls scratched up,all i asked them was "did the scratch affect the track area?if not than leave it cos it wont affect the performance of the ball,only the outlook will be affected and if everytime the ball got scracthed up and u wanna recon it,very soon the ball will shrink to the size until u can keep it at home and use it as a display piece"
at the end of the day,its still up to luck,why would the person who bowl on that pair of lanes before you nvr got your ball damaged but when u bowl on the lanes,your ball got damaged?
