BallReviews
General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: vg7pin on November 11, 2013, 06:57:40 PM
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Do you toss your inactive equipment or leave it around for the memories? How long is too long to keep stuff around?
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Good ones I pass down to my daughter, and others I throw on the rack at my local center.
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I have one now for fifty years, Brunswick Gold Crown, carried all over the country
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I've only kept one ball from back in the day. I threw my old Zone Classic in so many events and had several honor scores with it. Definitely my go to ball for years. Don't see light enough oil to throw it anymore, but I can't bring myself to get rid of it.
Other than that if I've got different stuff I don't throw I either sell them or give them away. They end up taking up way too much space.
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I have retired a couple, most recent a cell pearl ,to many games on it and have now updated my equipment, to many honor scores with it to say goodbye totally
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Do you toss your inactive equipment or leave it around for the memories? How long is too long to keep stuff around?
With the exception of the Storm pieces that came with the last couple of years of PWBA membership and later split despite being kept unused in a climate-controlled environment, everything I have bought is potentially fair-game to be used again. I sold some of the old 16lb stuff from the 80's and early 90's but that was because it was never going to be used again.
For the most part, I have not bowled in something like eight years save for the annual office xmas party...but stuff like my Faball Blue Nail still works fine in today's environment as does the old Roto RH bleeder.
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Unfortunately, I am a hoarder. I currently have three twenty ball racks of a mixture of old and new balls. But that being said, there is always a condition that may pop up in a tournament or league where that old "has-been" will suddenly become very useful again! So no, I don't arbitrarily just get rid of old stuff.
Old stuff listing: Black, Blue, Burgundy and Red Hammers. Lime Green Messenger and Three Purple Ninjas. One Wolf and an EBO Savage.
I have used a couple of the Hammers and the Ninjas just this year in league play on a light oil, spotty shot.
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Good ones I pass down to my daughter, and others I throw on the rack at my local center.
Within the last month or so, I gave a ball to the local house and donated another to a high school team.
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I send them on down the road. I go through way too many balls to keep them. I like to help out people that normally can't afford equiptment, Ill completely plug a ball give it to them and then redrill it. I try to pay it forward!