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General Category => Drilling & Layouts => Topic started by: Long Roller on July 26, 2006, 10:11:15 AM

Title: illegal weight hole
Post by: Long Roller on July 26, 2006, 10:11:15 AM: Has anyone ever heard of someone drilling a weight hole and sticking a foreign heavy object in it and plugging it to create a sort of "flip block"? Would this give a benefit to a ball? I heard a rumor that someone local has done this to his ball....
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Title: Re: illegal weight hole
Post by: Mvpbowler on July 26, 2006, 06:16:54 PM: Sure they use to do it back in the old days, drill the hole, fill it with some metals and than plug back on top of it.. I believe that is why the PBA now states if ball is plugged, must be clear plugged and no more than 3/8 of an inch. Don't quote me on that PBA part!

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Title: Re: illegal weight hole
Post by: dizzyfugu on July 27, 2006, 06:26:42 AM: Nevertheless, once you run into a weight control at the venue you are in trouble anyway... although I think that additional side or top weight is in today's balls rather counterproductive. In times of pan cake blocks, those added coins etc. will surely have had a positive influence, but with the fine-weighted core designs around, I do not think that added weight will help much.
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Title: Re: illegal weight hole
Post by: jimensminger on July 27, 2006, 09:20:05 AM: I've heard,..that a little carefully placed lead say, in a 1" x 3" hole drilled, filled, and plugged on your pap was great for late night pot games back in the day,...just what I heard.
Title: Re: illegal weight hole
Post by: DanH78 on July 27, 2006, 09:24:09 AM: I don't know the benefit today, but my dad told me about a mechanic at a house he bowled at 30 years ago had a ball which he drilled out and but a large amount of lead in. When he could control the ball it struck like nobody's business.
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Title: Re: illegal weight hole
Post by: Ragnar on July 27, 2006, 09:38:54 AM: We had a ball like this way back when I was a kid working at the bowling alley. It had a LOT of lead shot in it and would do circles, reverse direction and go airborne. It vanished after one night punching a hole in a masking unit.
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Title: Re: illegal weight hole
Post by: stanski on July 27, 2006, 03:40:24 PM: I've got a black beauty at my grampa's house weighing in at a hefty 19 pounds. He has a "don't ask, don't tell" policy with that ball ;-)
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