Geez...I can only afford 3 new balls or so a year and my new Playmaker looks like it is a year old after only 4 games and 2 frames on it.

I got it drilled Tuesday and rolled 3 games trying it out. The lanes were like a desert, so I couldn't do much with it since it started hooking just past the arrows that day, so I quit after 3 games.

A group of us seniors always get together every Thursday for 3 pot games. Today when I got up to bowl in the 3rd frame of the second game, my Playmaker was missing. Then some of the other bowlers noticed their balls were missing also, so we called the lane man about the problem. He went back and found 6 balls humg up in the back. Two were mine...Playmaker and XXXL. Both came back damaged. They were the only balls of the 6 that got damaged. The brand new Playmaker had a deep gouge about 2 1/2" long x 1 1/4" wide x 1/8"  deep ........ the XXXL had 2 rows of notches 1/4" long x 1/8" wide x 1/16" deep  about 1/2" apart with a space of about 2" between the two rows all around the entire circumference of the ball.

To fix the XXXL, they will have to sand off at least 1/16" of the entire cover.

To fix the new Playmaker, they are going to have to plug it and the worse part about this is the damage is in the ball track. Pretty upsetting to see this happen to a brand new ball. I showed the manager that the damage to Playmaker is in the track and he said that's OK, it won't hurt the balls performance, happens sometimes.

My question is....will a plugged area this large in the track effect the ball?
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But plugging is urethane, not resin.
If it's 2 1/2" long x 1 1/4" wide, that's a pretty wide gouge.
If it is all in the track area, how can it not affect performance?
But by how much? I don't really know, but I'd want more corroboration than from the manager.

I think the manager is just placating you so he doesn't have to pay for a new ball AND drilling. Yes, it happens sometimes but not that big and not all in your track, if that's accurate.

But, Jim, I'm not a driller wait til one of the drillers here tells you the percentage of urethane won't seriously affect the ball's performance.

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Brickguy, sorry to hear about your ball.  That really sucks when that happens, I had it happen to a Chaos many years ago right in my track, it never rolled the same.

Look at it on the bright side, tell them to chip around the whole track, then plug the whole thing.  Then you would have a homemade version of the Quantum Helix!

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Something similar to that happened to a friend of mine... Ball never reacted the same, they sanded it down ALOT and you could see and hear the flat spot. I recommend asking the manager to replace it.