I saved those files a long time ago - I knew someone would want to see them again. That''''s all I threw back in the 80''''s and early 90''''s - Faball urethane (except for the Navy Blue which I never really liked)
My experience from my usage and observation was that during its era - the urethane Red Hammer was kind of like the Purple urethane hammer when dull but the Red Hammer polished up easier, and when polished was a bit more ball than the polished Black Hammer.
Based on the year of release, "smell", and reaction I think the Red Hammer was just a softer version of the original Black Hammer, so that''''s why it would polish up better easier than the Blue or Purple.
I think the Blue and Purple were similar except that the Purple was a bit harder so it wasn''''t as heavy an oiler as the blue - although I really liked my Purple.
I bought a Navy reactive and hardly used it and preferred the purple and original black - probably cuz I was only bowling in one center then and there was no way I needed an "oiler" in that house.
OH - and I did buy the Maroon hammer and I hated it - actually I ended up buying two but they both cracked! It was too strong in my house when dull - and it sucked when polished - if you could call it polished - I never had much luck getting any kind of look with that ball. I quit bowling for 3-1/2 years after that, and when I started up again in the late 90''s it was time to forget urethane and learn the reactives, but that''s a story for another day.
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