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?

TotalNV

as far as i know, since we bowl there twice a week at least, there is no problem to date. wooden lanes tend to provide bowlers with 'souvenirs' on your balls... same goes to the old taman jurong superbowl. but now they oso have a synthetic overlay liaox.

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SuperFuryPearl

had a bad experience before but now i mostly heck care unless the stratches affect the way the ball react if not i dun really care but now the lanes there is not bad.

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powerteo

same sentiments.... unless u intend to resell away your balls, else, don really care on the scratches..

Storm

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?

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fabulous68

i tot its your rapid fire that kenna the scratch ?? my jazz also got a 1 cent chip off there.

TotalNV

taboo taboo... choy choy choy! better keep quiet and not say anything... ahahaha...

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hiaz... scatch topic again... i already used to it already lo...

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REV300

First of all, thank you guys for your feedbacks & replies.

I understand Planet Bowl is the homeground to some of you. Don't get me wrong, I am not discrediting the bowling centre or anything. I used to bowl there a lot in 2006 as my company league was held there. I like the relax atmosphere of bowling there and is looking forward to bowl there again if the lanes had improved.

Pyro, good to see that you are very active in promoting bowling. As bowlers, we need more people like you to promote the sport. With due respect, I would still want to make my point clear. Here goes:

'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'

True. I have not bowl around the world, however I had bowled in many places in Singapore enough to find out the differences. Just to quote 2 examples as they were very old and quite poorly maintained. (Also they are no longer around). The old Superbowl Marina South and Victor's Superbowl Marina South. If you know, the lanes there are old woods. I did not have my bowling balls scratched badly there. It's true that some of these bowling centres leave a few small marks on the ball, but I noticed whenever I bowled at planet bowl last time, there are more marks left on the ball than other centres which I had been.

'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"'

When I bowled there, the scratch marks were all over my track area and it definitely affect ball reaction. That's why I had no choice but to send them for recon.

'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? '

Not true. I had spoken to many 'lau jiao' bowlers and some pro shop owners who used to bowl at Planet Bowl and they also told me their bowling balls were scratched up seriously to the stage that they do not want to bowl there anymore.

However, it seems from the replies that the lanes at Planet Bowl had indeed improved and I believe it has. Looking forward to bowling there sometime in the near future. Oh, one last question. Is the lane oiling pattern long, medium or short now? How many feet of oil? What kind of pattern are they laying most of the time? Thanks and bowl great!

TotalNV

sorry ah... ot a bit... how do you guys actually determine the length & pattern of the oil one? can you tell from just bowling on them? or do you ask the bowling center for such info? sorry if i sound noobie on this one... LOL~

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fabulous68

Yo, Yapster, where you go ? so long never see you liao ...

TotalNV

he's been 'locked up' in camp... hahahaa... - grounded!

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fabulous68

Ya, he must be in camp toturing the OCTs ... Yap, dun be too sadist okie ..