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Equipment Boards => Hammer => Topic started by: jmattox on January 25, 2011, 01:15:21 AM

Title: Is Hammer going to come out with urethane?
Post by: jmattox on January 25, 2011, 01:15:21 AM

Just a general question if anyone has heard any rumors if they are going to come out with a urethane ball? I was at a Storm demo and used the Natural Pearl and I want to get a urethane ball but will wait if Hammer is going to make one.

Title: Re: Is Hammer going to come out with urethane?
Post by: HammerTech on January 25, 2011, 10:15:19 PM

 As of right now we do not have any plan of coming out with a urethane ball again.  We did come out with a urethane not too long ago called the Pure Hammer (both in solid black and burgandy). Sorry to deliver the bad news

Title: Re: Is Hammer going to come out with urethane?
Post by: Roll2Win on January 26, 2011, 07:41:25 AM

 
 I was under the impression that most if not all of today's reactive resin ball's cover stock is still made of urethane.  If not urethane, what is it?  If they are made of urethane then it is a bit of a misnomer if we don't consider them as such.

Title: Re: Is Hammer going to come out with urethane?
Post by: charlest on January 26, 2011, 08:14:33 AM

Technically all reactive resin is based on urethane since they came out around 1993. I believe that a catalyst is what turns urethane into resin. Initially Brunswick labeled all their resin balls, "reactive urethane". This only seemed to confuse the general public, where some thought Brunswick was still making plain urethane. The behavior of resin is so radically different from that of urethane, if we did call them urethane, it would confuse people even more. So the name or label, "resin" or reactive resin", has stuck and is more appropriate, in my view.

Of course, all coverstock materials are some version of plastic, be it polyester, urethane or resin. So would it be better if we just called all coverstocks "plastic"? But then we don't do that either. 

 

Roll2Win wrote on 1/26/2011 8:41 AM:

 I was under the impression that most if not all of today's reactive resin ball's cover stock is still made of urethane.  If not urethane, what is it?  If they are made of urethane then it is a bit of a misnomer if we don't consider them as such.

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Edited by charlest on 1/26/2011 at 1:19 PM

Title: Re: Is Hammer going to come out with urethane?
Post by: danprince10 on January 26, 2011, 08:53:05 PM

So in the traditional sense a "plastic" ball is really a polyester ball?

Title: Re: Is Hammer going to come out with urethane?
Post by: charlest on January 27, 2011, 04:42:16 AM

As far as I know, Yellow Dots, White Dots, Target Zones, and Maxims have always been polyester. All bowling ballcoverstocks are (made of material from the chemical family known as) plastic.
 

danprince10 wrote on 1/26/2011 9:53 PM:

So in the traditional sense a "plastic" ball is really a polyester ball?

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Title: Re: Is Hammer going to come out with urethane?
Post by: Balldoctor on January 27, 2011, 06:28:31 PM

Polyester is correct, just don't try to wear any. lol

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