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Curly

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Good job, ball companies!
« on: October 09, 2011, 08:33:15 PM »
So... i'm just gonna say it. The quality of bowling ball manufacturing, these days, just plain sucks. We've taken SEVEN balls now that have cracked completely in half. Brunswick's. Columbia's. Storm. Ebonite. Lane1. Coverstock pits, cracking around the finger holes, mis-marked cg's and etc..... MY GOD! Frankly, Hammer and Rotogrip have the highest manufacture quality and they're the only two brands i recommend, this season. I just can't justify paying alotta money for crap balls and i sure as hell think it's shameful that these companies pass on the crap that they do. Questions? Comments? Post them....
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Sunshine n Lollipops

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Re: Good job, ball companies!
« Reply #16 on: October 10, 2011, 07:03:47 PM »
Yes, MI2AZ, he did put smiles in his reply meaning he was admitting he was wrong and Charlest was correct.  Perhaps he wasn't so off on his pompous comment seeing that Charlest refused to get it and un-graciously continued to bash him.



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Monster Pike

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Re: Good job, ball companies!
« Reply #17 on: October 10, 2011, 08:05:30 PM »

 I'd say that's par for the course in my experiences reading his posts.  Kudos to Curly here for not giving it back to him in this forum...
 
I have two Storms that cracked, not sure why.  They were in my finished basement on a practice putting green I made..So they were up off the ground...  One was an Attitude Shift (that I did not buy from or have drilled by jls) & the other was an overseas release X-Factor Perfecta Pro CG (also not bought n drilled by jls).  Both 15 pounds.  I have older balls in the same place that are still fine.
Sunshine n Lollipops wrote on 10/10/2011 7:03 PM:
Yes, MI2AZ, he did put smiles in his reply meaning he was admitting he was wrong and Charlest was correct.  Perhaps he wasn't so off on his pompous comment seeing that Charlest refused to get it and un-graciously continued to bash him.



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Curly

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Re: Good job, ball companies!
« Reply #18 on: October 11, 2011, 04:28:29 AM »
Charlest made the valid point regarding manufacturers but my 'opinion' is based upon observation. There ARE noticeable differences between brands and i see it in what we get from our distributors. I don't care who makes what.
Read some good replies regarding the cracking issue. Thanks. So we have environment, driller error, physics, and bowler mis-care. Alotta factors that would seem to rule out poor manufacturing. I'm just not following the spike, in cracked balls, that we're seeing. After ten years.... all of a sudden balls are cracking left and right. lol!
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Monster Pike

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Re: Good job, ball companies!
« Reply #19 on: October 11, 2011, 05:30:05 AM »
Well it's funny that back when I went straight from work to bowling, I had to have my ball in the car all day, but it never cracked... Now that I'm self employed, have time to get home, eat, grab the ball n go, they crack... Those old balls were Columbia that I threw & I still have a couple of em...  The newer ones do seem like the ones cracking more often...
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chucksta29

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Re: Good job, ball companies!
« Reply #20 on: October 11, 2011, 08:45:35 AM »
Regardless of being made at the same place, Ebonite, Columbia, Hammer etc. use different materials with their equipment and are designed different.  You can't throw out design flaws or material flaws just because one company produced at a plant is good doesn't make them all good.  Plus, you all now have a reason to get MOTIVated!!! Four balls so far, three bought brand new one bought from a user on here and over a year no cracking or even noticeable track wear.

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Re: Good job, ball companies!
« Reply #21 on: October 11, 2011, 09:35:58 AM »
Last ball I had crack was my Brunswick C System 4.5.  I had used it at league the week before.  After league, I removed it from my bag and placed on my ball rack inside my home.  Looked at it a week later and it was split from my thumb to halfway around.  This is only the second ball I've had crack in 26 years.  The first was a Columbia Game.

 



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