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General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: Bryant on June 22, 2006, 12:58:08 PM
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Which material - Vinyl or Urethane ..is closer to the material that is the filler in a plastic ball?
Thanks
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Vinyl is stiffer than eurethane, I am curious why you are asking this question unless you plan on filling a existing hole with a eurethane slug somehow and trying to redrill it which is very difficult.
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Vinyl is stiffer than eurethane, I am curious why you are asking this question unless you plan on filling a existing hole with a eurethane slug somehow and trying to redrill it which is very difficult.
The ball I have right now is a TZ and I really like the feel of it. I am getting an RSX drilled soon and wondering which material is closer to that of the TZ.
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I would have to disagree which is harder. A urethane slug is much harder than a vinyl slug anyday. If you drill a vinyl thumb slug, it is very soft and doesn't give a good feel, plus it is very hard to shape and bevel. Also plug material is a 2 part mixture that the end result is the same hardness of the ball material, in most cases urethane which makes up are resin balls and just as hard as the plastic that makes up a Target Zone. If you want to know what feels best to you, go to the pro shop and see if he has a thumb drilled with a vinyl slug and a urethane slug and see which feels better to you. My experience would push me to the urethane slug which is hard and consistent. Just my opinion and experience.
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storm your dreamin urethene is a composite of rubber, whens the last time you compared that to a old L.P. or 45
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I'm too young to use 45s or L.P's. I just know I can bend a vinyl slug in my hands and not a urethane slug. End of story Grandpa.
Happy drilling
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This is from Vise's thumb slugs
"Easy" 100% Urethane Thumb Slugs: 75 hardness
Original Urethane Thumb Slugs: 73 hardness
Vinyl Thumb Slugs: 45 hardness
Urethane is deffinately harder than vinyl.
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I know it has already been answered. but usually players what to use vinyl only for the reason that they want to slow there release down and they come out too fast with urethane slugs. Urethane is the better material IMHO. There is still many shops around using vinyl oval inserts for bowler that have oval thumbs but don't have a milling machine that can do it.
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