crankabvp,
The pin is the small, round dowel that is used to hold the weightblock in place during the pouring of the ball. When the ball is cured and finished, the top of the dowel pin is left to show you the top of the weightblocks position. It is usually quite a different color than the ball itself on modern equipment.
An X-hole is merely a reference to an extra hole that is usually put into a ball to do a couple of different things. It will:
1. Make/keep the ball balances legal to the U.S.B.C. limits
2. Increase/decrease the amount of track flare a ball has and also when it will flare ( up to a point )
3. Depending on where you put it, you can fine tune the reaction shape of the ball with an extra hole, but on a limited basis.
There are a few other things about an x-hole, but that is the basics and I think you get the jist of it now.
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Edited on 12/8/2006 11:25 PM
