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kmtproshop

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Drill your own ball with hand held drill
« on: September 22, 2009, 02:15:02 AM »
New product release--drill your own bowling ball with a hand held drill at home! View video @ www.youtube.com/kmtproshop
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Re: Drill your own ball with hand held drill
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2009, 04:44:55 PM »
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http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=62931674

THIS IS COMPLETE SHIZZZZ


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Kid Jete

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Re: Drill your own ball with hand held drill
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2009, 04:47:54 PM »
I don't buy nearly enough balls to use this but it seems like it would work.  Maybe if it was a little more customizable for pitches it would be worth it.
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kmtproshop

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Re: Drill your own ball with hand held drill
« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2009, 09:20:58 AM »
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I don't buy nearly enough balls to use this but it seems like it would work.  Maybe if it was a little more customizable for pitches it would be worth it.

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Re: Drill your own ball with hand held drill
« Reply #4 on: September 24, 2009, 11:13:47 AM »
I watched the longer vid and it seems like an okay idea. The main concern is someone with no experience jumping into drilling. For somebody with proshop experience and a good knowledge of drilling and laying out equipment I think it would work okay.
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BrunsMike

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Re: Drill your own ball with hand held drill
« Reply #5 on: September 24, 2009, 11:35:47 AM »
This would be great for those bowler's who have some experience with ball layout's. This can bring on some illegal drilling's though when it come's down to weight hole's and exotic layout's. Hopefully everyone who drill's their own ball on this system will have their ball weighed to check if it's legal or not. This would be a great thing to have for those basic pin around the finger's and CG within a 2" circle under the palm. I'm definately considering it once I get some extra cash.
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Re: Drill your own ball with hand held drill
« Reply #6 on: September 24, 2009, 05:14:14 PM »
I agree with brunsmike and you also need a scale as well.But nice concept over all. Maybe i'll stock them LOL
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Re: Drill your own ball with hand held drill
« Reply #7 on: September 24, 2009, 05:45:50 PM »
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I agree with brunsmike and you also need a scale as well.But nice concept over all. Maybe i'll stock them LOL
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That's why I mentioned the illegal layout's. Not everyone know's how to properly weigh a ball to check it for legal properties. I know I couldn't weigh a ball properly in the correct axis point's on the ball. If I got this system which 1st it would have to allow for vacu grip's and thumb slug's, I would have to take the ball down to my proshop operator to finish the job on punching out the x-hole correctly then weigh it to make sure it will pass USBC standard's. Again great concept but, it need's more work for it to become successful. As it sit's this jig require's a lot of knowledge of bowling ball characteristic's that not many of the current bowler's really know much about. At least not from what I can see from the current leauge's I bowl in. Most of them say to me "I just want a ball that will hook hook hook!!"
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Re: Drill your own ball with hand held drill
« Reply #8 on: September 24, 2009, 05:50:01 PM »
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I watched the longer vid and it seems like an okay idea. The main concern is someone with no experience jumping into drilling. For somebody with proshop experience and a good knowledge of drilling and laying out equipment I think it would work okay.
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I would think that if an individual had pro shop experience and good knowledge of drilling and laying out equipment they would run the other way...

I can't use vinyl thumb inserts and will agree with most that there are very few people that actually need the extra grip that vinyl offers.

This product isn't for me. It could never give me the ability to do this at a cost to make it worthwhile -

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Middle finger - vacu grip (31/32" pilot enlarged to 1 1/32 for the top ~1")
Ring finger - milled oval
Thumb - milled oval in urethane thumb slug
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