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abrown

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Wtf is slide weight?
« on: March 15, 2018, 09:36:03 PM »
Title says it all! Have a local independent pro shop, drillings are simply wow i weighed one static balance was waaaayyyy off. Claimed its slide weight and i just dont lnow how to weigh it that way
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MI 2 AZ

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Re: Wtf is slide weight?
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2018, 02:22:12 AM »
Side weight is the imbalance between the left and right side of the grip center line after drilling.  Per USBC standards, it can be no more than 1 oz.  There is also an imbalance of 1 oz allowed between the finger hole side and the thumb hole side as measured from the center of the grip.  The allowed imbalance between the top of the ball and the bottom is 3 oz to allow for the differences in weight removed from drilling.

PS this should probably be posted in another forum like the Misc or Drilling and Layouts.  It will not show up on the front page drawing better informed replies.  If you are wanting to know how to find this weight, you would get a better answer in the Drilling And Layouts forum.
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abrown

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Re: Wtf is slide weight?
« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2018, 05:28:06 AM »
I understand static balance and usbc limits. He's drilling stuff 5" away center grip with cg past pap sometimes no hole sometimes 1 1/2 " hole and still heavy . Was just wondering if anyone's else had heard of SLIDE weights, but considering ive seen pennies in the plug work guessing not
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Re: Wtf is slide weight?
« Reply #3 on: March 16, 2018, 09:37:05 AM »
WTF is right! WTF is SLIDE wgt? Can he/you actually mean Side wgt? Never heard of it. Pennies in the plug job?? Time to find a NEW pso & quick. Run Forrest, RUN!
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MI 2 AZ

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Re: Wtf is slide weight?
« Reply #4 on: March 16, 2018, 12:39:38 PM »
Quote from: abrown on March 16, 2018, 05:28:06 AM
I understand static balance and usbc limits. He's drilling stuff 5" away center grip with cg past pap sometimes no hole sometimes 1 1/2 " hole and still heavy . Was just wondering if anyone's else had heard of SLIDE weights, but considering ive seen pennies in the plug work guessing not

Okay, no, never heard of 'slide weight'.  Is it supposed to be something that is done illegally to doctor a bowling ball, like the pennies in the plug, to surpass the USBC static limits?

Sorry, I thought you had just misspelled side weight.

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