Anyone here bowl on a House pattern less then 42'?

[chip82901]

My house the past few years has used the Red, white and blue patterns throughout the season. This year, they went with just a THS of 40' and some cheap Kegal oil that our proprietor got on sale. He's all about cheap lol. It breaks down weird. Some nights you're moving left after practice, some nights you start left and move right. It also doesn't help that our oiler is a 16 year old Kegal machine that they don't even make new parts for lol. Referbished parts only go so far. I'd prefer if we had a little more length like a 41' or 42', but if you go that length, you need to watch the volume. Get too much volume out there, it can affect carry down (especially on a mixed league)

[Perrin]

38' at the one house here. was 39 last year but they kept he same volume and walled up more and shortened it.

great for up and in guys (high speed or low rev outside lines) or the wheelers (high rev/low speed playing 20+ on fresh shot) but anyone in between has had issues this year. instead of a big hill of oil it's now a mountain with cliffs at 15 and 10

[flibblesh]

I play on a 37 footer, with anything outside of 9 being OOB due to the lane machine being less than wonderful. Fun times, averaging 200 is by far top of the league.