Oil pattern diagrams.

[maxwarren]

I was just wondering how a person could view the different oil pattern diagrams different centres use in Adelaide. Is there a website that I could look at?

Thanks.

Max.

 

[hewer]

You would have to speak to the specific centre as every centre uses different patterns.

 

[Phluff]

Each centre runs it's own house shot. This is a pattern that is usually created to compliment to lane type / topography / age / centre enviroment / conditioner / lane machine etc.

To view the diagram of these patterns you would need to speak to your centre manager / head technician and they could possibly give you a copy of that centre's pattern.

Tournament patterns are generally posted online either in a thread on here or on tenpinevents website if it is a ranked event.

 

[Schmicko]

would be interesting to see all the variations/similarities of house shots being used across the country all in one thread

 

[jason_doust]

Hell, how much "almost nothing outside 10 board" can a guy read..?

A pattern is a good start, but is only part of the equation. As Phluff put it, surface elements (age, topography, material, etc...), environment and oil type are all massive elements of how a pattern plays.

 

[Phluff]

Want a house shot picture?

Grab a pen and a sheet of paper.
Draw 2 parallel lines about 1cm apart and 10cm long.
Grab a highlighter and draw a 78cm line down the middle.
That's your oil pattern
Variance on highlighter thickness and line length pretty much covers every centre!

 

[Bigsy]

Want a house shot picture?

Grab a pen and a sheet of paper.
Draw 2 parallel lines about 1cm apart and 10cm long.
Grab a highlighter and draw a 78cm line down the middle.
That's your oil pattern
Variance on highlighter thickness and line length pretty much covers every centre!

That doesn't make sense.

Bigsy...

 

[androooo]

Hehehe..... Oh yes it does.

That's the THS graph drawing 101 class.

 

[Bigsy]

Hehehe..... Oh yes it does.

That's the THS graph drawing 101 class.

If you convert all the measurements to mm, the 2 lines are 10mm apart and 100mm long.

The highlighter line is then 780mm long (over 2 standard rulers in length).

If you roughly scale this up, the oil would be out the front door.

Bigsy...

 

[jason_doust]

Sounds like a house shot to me...

OK. Think of it this way...

1. Get a long cake.
2. Line it up like a bowling lane.
3. Ice it with a palette knife, working the ice thinly from the edges to thick in the middle.
4. Now take your palette knife and remove the icing from 1/3 of one end. That's your backend.
5. Draw a construction line down the centre of the cake, dividing it in half longitudinally.
6. Divide these halfs into halfs again. You now have four skinny quarters.
7. Now take the palette knife and remove the icing from the outside quarters of the cake.
8. That's what most house shots look like.

With approximately half the lane set up as miss area, does anyone still wonder why we think house shots are a joke?