Just curious in both a specific case and general question...

Left handed, PAP currently 4-1/2 x 1 up...

I'm thinking of redrilling my Statement Solid with pin up currently 1.25 inches above ring and MB in thumb, (which is a very lazy drilling for me) to be the same drill as my Sure Lock, which is pin down right below ring with MB swung out 45. The Sure Lock has  re-earned a spot in the bag after having been pulled out and (on in my current house) shapes and reacts well.

For this specific case, is this a standard pin up/pin down question and does the change from pin up to pin down create that big a difference? Videos on Google say possibly no with a low rev game.

In general though, there's a second question. A second drill removes most of the ball's remaining value. What percentage of people nowadays attempt a second drill instead of selling and trying again?

Thanks Luke. I particularly agree with your point on the information being worth it, particularly for someone like me who has had not-so-good luck with asyms. I would now have a known ball, surface condition, previous reaction, and throwing it in the same house. That information is probably worth it by itself.

The one thing I am worried about is that the MB is in the thumb of the ball, and my pin down drill to be copied has the MB at 45 degrees... Thoughts on impact or doing the comparison with a previously drilled out MB?

Redrill the ball. Even a single drill ball isn't worth the cost of shipping it. There are a few cases where this rule doesn't hold true, but in general a used ball has little value.

Save your time and money.  I can't ever remember plugging a ball that didn't roll good, redrilling it, and then saying to myself I may have been wrong about this ball. In my experience, unless it is a ball that was some kind of experiment, balls either roll good for you or they don't. 

And this goes for drilling multiples of the same ball.  I can't tell you how many times I drilled 2 or 3 or 4 of something because it "looks great and has to roll better than it does",  or "it rolls good for everyone else..."

What I bolded above sums it up for me. I've plugged and re-drilled several balls (asymmetric and symmetric) that didn't initially roll good for me, and no bueno. Whatever improvement I saw was minimal and ultimately wasn't worth the time and expense.


If a ball is initially a turkey for you, chalk it up to experience and move on.

Try changing the surface first.  I adjust the surface of almost every second ball I drill to fine tune its reaction to my game

As a person who uses a Turbo thumb system....No!

Interesting that several would mention surface. I don't know about you, but that's always the FIRST (and second, and third) thing that I do, and I suspect most other people as well.... Consider surface managed....