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General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: BowlingDude300 on March 02, 2004, 07:06:39 AM

Title: Plugged balls?
Post by: BowlingDude300 on March 02, 2004, 07:06:39 AM

Will a ball with multiple plugs harm or lessen its performance?? Thnaks. Kyle

Title: Re: Plugged balls?
Post by: A_P_K on March 02, 2004, 10:22:29 PM

Out of 50 of my past and present bowling balls I think 5 of them are single drills.  Multiple drill balls do just as well as long as the track isn't torn up from plugging...
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Title: Re: Plugged balls?
Post by: Juggernaut on March 02, 2004, 10:49:09 PM

I dunno, I once shot 300-754 with an old black hammer that had (honest to GOD) 17 plugs in it. It had been plugged and re-drilled so many times, counting weight holes and all, it may have been just as much plug as it was original ball.

  As long as the weights can be found on the ball, a good driller can compensate for the plugs almost always. But mind you I said a GOOD driller, not just some Tom, Dick, or Harry in off the street.
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Title: Re: Plugged balls?
Post by: Juggernaut on March 02, 2004, 11:14:46 PM

Bob7,

  By good driller I mean someone who knows how to use the dodo scale to find the topweight in the ball, and who will take the time to find it, re-mark it, and drill it accordingly.

  There are lots of guys who CAN, just not that many that will cause they want to sell you something new. Heck, back when I was working in a shop, I made just as much profit (if not MORE) by doing plug work as i did by selling a new ball, but I hardly ever got the MSRP for a ball, usually cut a deal just to keep the inventory moving.
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