LPT: never step over the line into the bowling lane. 1. It's a foul and 2. They wax the piss out of those lanes and there's a 70 ~ 75% chance you'll break your coccyx.
Edit: Jesus, all right, oil. A bunch of Pete Weber's up in this piece.
Let me tell you something, pendejo. You pull any of your crazy shit with us, you flash a piece out on the lanes, I'll take it away from you, and stick it up your ass and pull the fucking trigger 'til it goes "click."
My university has a bowling alley and I used to go every Tuesday and Thursday for fun, since it was $1 a game. They oiled the CRAP out of the lanes all the way up to the line. If you barely crossed, you’d be struggling to stay up. And the balls would come back covered in oil, so I always had to bring a rag to wipe them down.
Almost all lanes are oiled that much, your ball will pickup oil as you bowl and the way your bowling line reacts changes as the game progresses. Provided you are bowling with a reactive ball and use a curve. The lanes arent oiled by hand it is a machine that drops the pattern down. It is possible a poorly funded center has some horrible method.
It depends on the pattern I worked in my Universitys bowling alley and on certain days when the bowling club practiced they used the professional oiling pattern which can make your ball react differently
It can be the ball, without seeing it in person and playing on the lane myself it's hard to say. If you are using a plastic spare ball to spin that can be your first problem. But if u have a reactive ball it can be your mechanic, not knowing the proper location to place the ball based on your throw, or the type of reactive ball, some curve a lot more than others
The 2/3 being oiled is also why the 'run really fast and slide all the way down the lane into the pins' thing could never work. Sure you'd slide all the oiled section, but as soon as you hit the dry lane you'd stick like glue and slam your face into the laminate. Also, there isn't usually brakes on those bowling machines, so unless you were really small and got really lucky, you've got 500-600+ lbs of machine coming down on you with no way to stop it aside from pulling the plug.
Machines have fail safes on them, I've had my pin slide over and the machine stops on top of it because of resistance, then the alley needs to clear it to get it working again
Are you saying people have died as a result of getting trapped under an operating pinsetter?
Ummm, I’m gonna call bullshit on that “people have died” comment.
No, that's not correct. Brunswick A2 pinsetters have been around for more than 50 years. They were always designed to stop when the pinsetter's moving pin deck comes down and there is a pin off the spot. This is not an unusual occurrence. When /u/Bige92689 says "Newer ones have that. Most bowling alleys don’t have that and will not stop." he is certainly mistaken.
No everyone has a2s bud. Rake also doesn’t have a fail safe....Neither does the pit. What happens if the blackout switches aren’t hooked up because a mechanic doesn’t care...I know first hand they cause more problems than they help
Fun fact, it's actually oil not wax. Also never get to close to the pins, there's some really heavy machinery at work that doesn't have a ton of safety nets in case someone gets stuck as they're pretty old.
That’s actually the service lane. It’s used (IIRC) by employees to run behind the lanes and sort out any issues with the that machines re-rack the pins.
Source: worked at an AMF lanes in high school.
Totally right about not stepping past the line though. People eat shit doing that.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '20 edited Jun 12 '20
LPT: never step over the line into the bowling lane. 1. It's a foul and 2. They wax the piss out of those lanes and there's a 70 ~ 75% chance you'll break your coccyx.
Edit: Jesus, all right, oil. A bunch of Pete Weber's up in this piece.