Went to my ball rack in my climate controlled room this a.m. to retrieve my Black Eagle & Black Eagle Pearl for a little practice.  Both were completely cracked around the ball.  This is the third Black Eagle that has cracked this way for me and the first Eagle Pearl for a total of FOUR!.  I bought the first Black Eagle three years ago while visiting in San Antonio. Liked the ball so much I bought two more when I got home and then the Pearl just before it was discontinued.
Needless to say I am so done with 900 Global balls. Four balls in three years is to much and to expensive for my wallet.  I don't care if Storm has bought an interest in 900G or completely owns them.  It won't convince me to ever buy 900G/AMF again. NOTE: I busted the Black Eagle apart..... the thickness of the coverstock varied from 1/4" to 1/2".  Great quality control!  Sorry for the rant, but two balls on the same day was a little to much.  I'm going to go lay down now and hope this was all a dream.

Quote from: Azaelv on August 06, 2015, 06:09:18 PM

MY UpRoar just cracked and the very next day my Tag too I loved those 2

Yeap only 3 4 games my tag cracked on the lane. Threw that garbage away.

Hearing people balls crack sitting at home makes me scared. I never had a ball crack before except the motiv tag. Hearing 900 global balls cracking left n right from these comments making me not want to pull the button on a 900 global black ops now.

Did you get ur Tag right away when it came out? because I got mine just a couple of days after it was released, maybe the batch?

On the other hand, so many 900 global balls cracked, rethinking on getting the boo-yah! i dont care how it rolls, should be good enough for spare lol
1. urethane 2. hell of a good name!

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Did you contact 900 to get it replaced?

I use every brand of bowling ball and go through a lot of equipment.  I don't recall ever having a ball from 900 Global crack, but apparently I am fortunate.  I live in Virginia, and I leave my current (active) stuff in the car all the time, except for the coldest of winter.  I recently had a Storm IQ Tour Solid crack on me.  Got back from Nationals, and went to bowl.  Opened my bag and at it was cracked all the way around.  Could have happened on the airplane, I am not sure of that.  Before that was a Radical REAX, that was plugged, and it appears to me that the plug was the root cause.  I am currently using the Chemical X with very good success, and would hate to have it crack on me.

Every bowling ball company I have ever thrown has had a ball crack on me. Unfortunately it does happen. But when looking at bowling balls that crack, it is only about 2-5% of all balls made. The problem is the 2-5% are the most vocal. Bowling balls never ever fully cure. So leaving them in even a climate controlled room, can eventually cause a ball to crack. Think of a bowling ball as concrete. Why does concrete crack? It is because it is never fully cured and is constantly expanding and contracting. As long as customer service is good, I will keep drilling those company's balls. Also think about cars. Every time you see a certain one broken down on the road, do you automatically not buy that company's car?

Here is a post of mine from 2010.
{For starters, all of my balls are kept in the house.  I have a rack that holds 30 balls.  That said, a couple of weeks ago I noticed that 4 of my balls cracked.  BPP, S75, BP, and Seismic Aftermath.  This is my 2nd BPP to crack and I also had the original bounty to crack.  I have just about every manufactures ball on the rack and none of the others cracked. The part that hurts is that all of these balls had less than 15 games on them.  I talked to Dale and sent pictures. He said to tell my pro shop to bevel the edges of the finger holes like they were not going to install grips this relieves the pressure in the area around the hole and greatly reduces bridge and fissure cracking. My pro shop guy was kind of insulted because he said he had quite a few Global balls crack also. Something is wrong here, I purchase multiple balls a year and this is the only company that I have cracking problems with.  Dale sent me 1 new ball but I am still out of $600.00.  If anyone else has this problem please chime in.

Curt,
As a 900G staff member I would be expect you to defend your company, That's why your a staffer and that's fine.  You mention numerous things that can cause cracking which I have knowledge of and agree are possible causes.  However, the majority (95%+) of my balls (900G/AMF, Storm/Roto Grip, Motiv, Radical, Brunswick, Ebonite, Track, and Columbia) regardless of manufacturer are drilled by the same person, who bevels the holes, glues the grip the same way each time, etc.  And the only balls that have cracked all the way around have been the 900G sitting on the same rack in the same climate controlled room. (To be completely honest, my wife's old Scout did crack, but it was left in our hot garage).
You did not comment on the varied thickness of the Black Eagle cover stock of 1/4" to 1/2" that I discovered when I busted the Eagle apart.  I busted my wife's Scout apart today and the cover stock is uniform in thickness around the complete ball.
The Black Eagle's are 2012 balls and I have read many forum posts back and since, that addressed the quality from the San Antonio plant.
All I know is I lost three Black Eagles and one Black Eagle Pearl which was a 2013 ball to "full" cracking and none of the others from all the manufactures mentioned have cracked.  I'm not looking for a replacement or a pro-rated discount, as the balls are completely out of warranty.  I just wanted to express my experience to my fellow bowlers on this forum and let them decide for themselves regarding use of 900G/AMF equipment.
At $200+ a ball, I cannot take any more chances with 900G/AMF, with the hope I will not experience the same result again. I'll have to take my chances elsewhere.

Thank you Lefty50 for you comments.
Please understand I'm not on here to bash 900G/AMF as some have stated they have had good experience with their product.  Perhaps I'm an unlucky person, but based on the majority of the posted comments it appears others have had similar results.
Hopefully, the new balls from 900G/AMF are better quality than past years and are a good buy.  Going forward I sincerely hope so.