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Equipment Boards => Lane #1 => Topic started by: BowlerKidR on October 16, 2006, 09:45:13 AM

Title: Is this a Silver Diamond Buzzsaw?
Post by: BowlerKidR on October 16, 2006, 09:45:13 AM: Found this ball on the rack. No nicks, fingers plugged and shortened 3/16 each. Good surface. What is it?

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b20/Ryman624/IMG_3496.jpg

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b20/Ryman624/IMG_3493.jpg

With this label drill what can i expect?
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Title: Re: Is this a Silver Diamond Buzzsaw?
Post by: mrbowlingnut on October 16, 2006, 05:54:59 PM: yep good length decent backend good find for you could ebay it for 100 or more so think about that first.
Title: Re: Is this a Silver Diamond Buzzsaw?
Post by: charlest on October 16, 2006, 05:56:49 PM: If it looks a Blue Dot and says "Lane #1" and "Buzzsaw/C" on it, with the buzzsaw symbol, then it's a Silver Diamond. Looks like typical label leverage put on by 49,739 pro shops. How it reacts depends on your PAP, ball speed, tilt, etc. SHould flip fairly hard on medium-light to medium oil patterns - enough to blow lots of racks.

I still loved when it first came out and Lane#1 was mostly unknown. Everyone would say words like, "Wow! you can really hook a Blue Dot!"
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Title: Re: Is this a Silver Diamond Buzzsaw?
Post by: zeusjr on October 16, 2006, 07:24:54 PM: Wow... That's one heak of a find.
Title: Re: Is this a Silver Diamond Buzzsaw?
Post by: Buzzhead on October 16, 2006, 09:22:19 PM: That ain't a buzzsaw kid. its a blue dot in disguise I will give you $20 to ship it to me........
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Title: Re: Is this a Silver Diamond Buzzsaw?
Post by: L o G on October 17, 2006, 05:57:20 AM: Wow can't belive you found that on the rack
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Title: Re: Is this a Silver Diamond Buzzsaw?
Post by: Lane1FOS on October 17, 2006, 02:01:41 PM: I want it. How much you want for it?
Title: Re: Is this a Silver Diamond Buzzsaw?
Post by: Nails on October 17, 2006, 02:06:02 PM: You better make sure some open bowler didn't grab someone's ball off the return and later return it to the house racks before you steal it.
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Title: Re: Is this a Silver Diamond Buzzsaw?
Post by: Ragnar on October 17, 2006, 02:08:16 PM: Not only is that a Silver Diamond, but, judging from the tint, it may well be an original which, imo, was the best version of the Silver. I have an original and still love it. I had a re-issue, drilled about like the one pictured, and didnt like it nearly as well. Just a bit of a warning - GUARD THE PRECIOUS or someone will try and tell you it's a blue dot and steal it away from you.
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Title: Re: Is this a Silver Diamond Buzzsaw?
Post by: BowlerKidR on October 17, 2006, 05:48:14 PM: quote:
You better make sure some open bowler didn't grab someone's ball off the return and later return it to the house racks before you steal it.
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Telling it like it is.

I didnt steal anything...i found it on the rack...the rack is fare game in my book
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Title: Re: Is this a Silver Diamond Buzzsaw?
Post by: Nails on October 17, 2006, 08:44:42 PM: quote:
I didnt steal anything...i found it on the rack...the rack is fare game in my book
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We've had this discussion many times here. The general consensus is that any ball on the rack, no matter how it got there, belongs to the house, so you're stealing from them. I was more alluding to the possibility that some one's ball got placed on the rack by mistake. They might return hoping the ball is still there.
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Title: Re: Is this a Silver Diamond Buzzsaw?
Post by: Juggernaut on October 17, 2006, 08:57:32 PM: If you go into wal-mart and take something off the shelf and try to leave without paying for it, that is shoplifting. It isn't yours, it belongs to them.

Same thing.
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Title: Re: Is this a Silver Diamond Buzzsaw?
Post by: BowlerKidR on October 17, 2006, 10:42:03 PM: quote:
If you go into wal-mart and take something off the shelf and try to leave without paying for it, that is shoplifting. It isn't yours, it belongs to them.

Same thing.
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point taken, but this is not the case. This house has absolutly no house balls. 95 percent of the balls on the rack at this house are previously owned bowlign balls. If something was left there, the owner left it there and does not want it back. And since this bowling alley is closing soon, i doubt that they will really care.
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Title: Re: Is this a Silver Diamond Buzzsaw?
Post by: Nails on October 18, 2006, 07:14:18 AM: quote:
point taken, but this is not the case. This house has absolutly no house balls. 95 percent of the balls on the rack at this house are previously owned bowlign balls. If something was left there, the owner left it there and does not want it back. And since this bowling alley is closing soon, i doubt that they will really care.
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Sounds like flimsy rationalization to me. Like I said, once abandoned, balls become property of the house. It's up to the house what to do with unwanted balls, not it's patrons.
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Title: Re: Is this a Silver Diamond Buzzsaw?
Post by: 9orbetter on October 18, 2006, 07:31:00 AM: Great find....If a bowling center pays for a ball for open bowlers, the ball belongs to them. But if I place a ball on the rack which I paid for, it's fair game for anyone....9
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Title: Re: Is this a Silver Diamond Buzzsaw?
Post by: Curly on October 18, 2006, 07:49:28 AM: quote:
....i doubt that they will really care.

This may be true. The RIGHT thing to do would be to ask. You MUST ask.
Listen, people leave all kinds of balls on our racks. Some real good ones too! They GIVE us those balls and so they become bowling alley property. Period. I think you can see where I'm going with this......lol
Nails makes a valid point too. Someone may have lost it. Ya never know. I'd hate to lose a good ball forever cause someone 'found' it and figured they'd just keep it. You?
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Title: Re: Is this a Silver Diamond Buzzsaw?
Post by: BowlerKidR on October 18, 2006, 07:53:06 AM: quote:
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....i doubt that they will really care.

This may be true. The RIGHT thing to do would be to ask. You MUST ask.
Listen, people leave all kinds of balls on our racks. Some real good ones too! They GIVE us those balls and so they become bowling alley property. Period. I think you can see where I'm going with this......lol
Nails makes a valid point too. Someone may have lost it. Ya never know. I'd hate to lose a good ball forever cause someone 'found' it and figured they'd just keep it. You?
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yet again...point taken. What i dont get is that for 3 years i worked at a bowling alley and not once was there a problem with someone accidently placing a ball on the rack and then not being able to find it. Why? Because no one had their stuff stolen and because no one left their stuff on the racks.
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Title: Re: Is this a Silver Diamond Buzzsaw?
Post by: Curly on October 18, 2006, 08:18:21 AM: -sigh-
well, just keep it then! lol j/k
Yes, someone may have not wanted it anymore and left it on the racks. Yes, the bowling alley doesnt care if you take it and would be happy to get rid of the ***** thing.
My point is more about morals, good etiquette, and that sort of thing.
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Title: Re: Is this a Silver Diamond Buzzsaw?
Post by: novawagonmaster on October 18, 2006, 09:52:21 AM: I don't think our local center would care one way or the other. That said, I would still ask before I walked out with something I did not walk in with.

Still, nice find.
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