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Spider Ball Bowler

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To Drill or Not to Drill??
« on: December 19, 2006, 02:00:11 PM »
I came home today from job #2 and sitting infront of my door was a UPS package which contained my new Hammer Black Widow.

The ball is 16.00 pounds with a 2 1/2 oz Top Weight, and a 2-3" pin.

The Pin and CG are lined up perfectly but the MB is swung about 2-2.5" to the right of those and probably about 4-5" below the CG.

I am a lefty and thought I had read somewhere that when the MB is swung out to the right it's PERFECT for left handed layouts.

Can anyone confirm or deny this report?







 

Long Roller

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Re: To Drill or Not to Drill??
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2006, 10:03:44 PM »
Perfect for right handed layouts...The pin and cg are always exactly in line.  Anytime you have only two points, you can always draw a straight line between them.  The important thing to look at is if the pin-cg-mass bias are ALL in line.
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Shane Soule

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Re: To Drill or Not to Drill??
« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2006, 10:09:33 PM »
I must be mistaken then.  Yea the mass bias isn't in line with the pin and cg...so I suck lol.

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Re: To Drill or Not to Drill??
« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2006, 10:10:43 PM »
Still very drillable even for a lefty.  Will more than likely need a weighthole, but that, in a lot of cases, helps the reaction anyways IMO.
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Re: To Drill or Not to Drill??
« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2006, 10:12:53 PM »
I'd like to make a Hammer 3 ball Arsenal for myself.

I have a Hammer 4D sitting in my room NIB waiting to be drilled, and if I also decide to drill the Widow, but then I am torn between a Toxic or a Doom.

I had pretty good results with the Doom when I was throwing 15, and I wonder if the Toxic would be too much on the back end, or if I'd be overlapping with the Toxic and Widow.

So many choices....so little money

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Re: To Drill or Not to Drill??
« Reply #5 on: December 20, 2006, 04:35:29 AM »
Toxic ? Widow...
Seen them, thrown them, own a Toxic and IMO, depending on how you were going to drill them, they are VERY close in the same oil. You can drill one strong and one weak, but IMO, you're wasting a ball there if you do.
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Re: To Drill or Not to Drill??
« Reply #6 on: December 20, 2006, 07:12:55 AM »
I would just get another DOOM.  This way you have more separation between that and your WIDOW.

Don't worry about the MB being off set.  Your layout will probably require an x-hole like others have said but that's ok.
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Re: To Drill or Not to Drill??
« Reply #7 on: December 21, 2006, 09:50:45 PM »
why choose between them? All three balls are awesome! The Widow can handle alot of oil despite what the numbers say. The Toxic goes alot further than the Doom does, about 2-3 feet further. You could scuff the surface of the Doom to about 1500-2000 to get it to read just a bit sooner.
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