BallReviews
Equipment Boards => Columbia 300 => Topic started by: Dabalos on April 19, 2004, 09:04:36 AM
-
My ball is about 5 weeks old. It has less than 60 games on it. It has a crack going around the middle finger and a chip on the ring finger. Anyone else whos full throttle cracked?
-
that's nothing i have pics and a video of my 4 day old jekyll cracking from the finger to thumb. cracks around the fingers are common. see your proshop for possible repair or replacement.
If interested in seeing send email in a PM
--------------------
I am Canadian Dude! GOO BIG FIN!!! MIKA K ALL THE WAY!
Edited on 4/20/2004 7:28 AM
-
is this common though, its only been 5 weeks since i got this ball. I heard about balls with inserts cracking earlier, but this is kinda rediculous
-
I would have to see the crack to make a real judgement call but:
Chips around the fingers can either occur with lane damage or in some cases when the holes aren't sanded down enough to relieve the edges.
Cracks around the fingers in some case can happen for the same reason and in others it has to do with amount of super glue used to bond the inserts in. Ofcourse columbia and track balls seem to be more prevalent to finger cracks than the other brands, although I have seen all brands crack.
-
would it be best then that I get it plugged and drilled with no inserts? and would i be able to keep the holes in the same place?
-
friedheads...what kind of back up would you like? I based my statement soley on my experiences during my 8+ years of working in a pro shop. During this time I have repaired more columbia and track balls for this kind of defect than any other of the ball companies. Just basing things off of my memory...
-
But doesnt it seem weird though that my ball has cracked SO early?
-
Maybe the do all stress evenly, but my exposure to the problem was dependant on the amount of bowling balls that were being bought in my area. When Zones were all the rage I would've said Brunswick was the worst for cracking. But for a while columbia and track sold huge in my area so I repaired a whole lot more of these. Just in sheer numbers, not percentages, that's what I saw. Sorry for writing it in an such an odd fashion originally!
Right now we are selling a lot of Ebonite, Hammer and Storm equipment out of the shop I currently work in and have not really noticed a whole lot of these issues. Now I'm not sure if this has so much to do with differences in resins utilized now a days or just the fact that there are different drillers in the area then compared to my earlier years?