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chitown

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do you drill your own equipment?
« on: April 20, 2006, 12:31:29 AM »
How many of you guys drill your own equipment?  If so, how much did your set up cost?
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Re: do you drill your own equipment?
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2006, 08:34:03 AM »
I have every thing that a shop could possibly have minus a scale and I have about $3500 in it.  Well worth the money if your into bowling and drill a lot of balls.  You can also drill for other people and make some money on the side.
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Re: do you drill your own equipment?
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2006, 08:34:35 AM »
One of my dists has a complete basic set for somewhere around $3000 I want to say, includes drill, bits, jig, pitch guages, scale, etc....

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chitown

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Re: do you drill your own equipment?
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2006, 09:08:27 AM »
I'm really considering drilling my own equipment.  If I decided to take the plunge I want to get a set up as cheap as possible.  I know of someone that bought a new drill for 400 dollars plus shipping.  That is the kind of deal i'm looking into.   He said his entire set up cost about 1,600 for everything he needs to do his own balls.
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Re: do you drill your own equipment?
« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2006, 10:06:44 AM »
i drill my own stuff but thats cuz i work in a pro shop
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Re: do you drill your own equipment?
« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2006, 03:11:24 PM »
I do. My set up is as complete as I can think of, cost me about $1200 total.
Scale, bits, drill, gauges, measuring ball, plugging items, inserts/slugs, spinner,I'm sure I forgot something, but that's about it.

Got a SMOKIN deal from a retail store on the drill, bits, jig , that is not selling bowling balls any longer.
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Re: do you drill your own equipment?
« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2006, 03:14:36 PM »
That is awesome...the scale included in that price...priceless!

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Re: do you drill your own equipment?
« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2006, 03:39:54 PM »
Yeah my used Ovalmatic cost me $6000
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Re: do you drill your own equipment?
« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2006, 03:51:08 PM »
As I said, watch some of your local retail stores, they will be, soon, not selling bowling balls and IF you catch the right time, the store manager will just want to get it out of his/her backroom. I work for a retail store, backroom space is worth a lot more to them than some old drill/jig. So you might be able to pick up a deal as I did...Good Luck !

Forgot..I also got a Letter Stamp/engraver ( non electrical) , but not going to use it, probably just sell it or use it to hold balls that are being plugged or waiting on customers to pick them up. Not much call for stamping the initials or name in balls anymore.
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Re: do you drill your own equipment?
« Reply #9 on: April 20, 2006, 11:12:05 PM »


  I do all mine in my basement. I am completely set up with a total of about 1500 including press, bits, scale, pitch gages, quarter scale, spinner, plug materials and a ton of polishes and papers.

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Re: do you drill your own equipment?
« Reply #10 on: April 21, 2006, 02:08:24 AM »
I drill my own stuff, cause i own the press, about 40 balls in stock and the entire shop

It's great to be a shop owner when it comes to comps.
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Re: do you drill your own equipment?
« Reply #11 on: April 21, 2006, 02:22:38 AM »
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I do. My set up is as complete as I can think of, cost me about $1200 total.
Scale, bits, drill, gauges, measuring ball, plugging items, inserts/slugs, spinner,I'm sure I forgot something, but that's about it.

Got a SMOKIN deal from a retail store on the drill, bits, jig , that is not selling bowling balls any longer.


What he said, except I'm not set up to do plugging.  I think I'm into my setup about $1000.
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Re: do you drill your own equipment?
« Reply #12 on: April 21, 2006, 09:52:38 AM »
I was looking into the surplus drilling equipment from that K chain, but here in the NY-NJ-Eastern PA area, they got rid of that stuff well over a year ago.

So I'm collecting everything piecemeal, and I'm not quite drilling, yet.



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