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agroves

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Proshop blunders?
« on: April 06, 2010, 05:47:47 PM »
A few nights ago, I had an embarassing situation happen to me.  I drilled a guy a Mutant Cell.  I set it on the counter, on the thumb hole.  Well, it rolled off the thumb hole and off the counter while my back was turned.

Other stories:
Right after I started drilling, I drilled a ball a full 1" too long.  I've also drilled a lefties ball righty.

Before that, I had a proshop guy drill a ball 1" too short for me.  

Whats your story?
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Crankenstein300

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Re: Proshop blunders?
« Reply #16 on: April 07, 2010, 11:16:24 PM »
A couple I can recall from my learning in the shop:

Was knocking down the dry plug on some balls in a hurry and got sidetracked. Went back and grabbed a ball thinking it was ready to go. Turned out it was the Track Sensor II I plugged the thumb on about 30 minutes ago. Ended up dumping plug down the front of my shirt. Nice and warm too from it beginning to harden. So much for that shirt.

Another one involved the plug cutter in the press. Forgot to zero out the table and was getting it near level and ended up taking a nice swipe of coverstock off since the cutting tool wasn't centered. Luckily it was my own ball and some clear plug made the slice nearly invisible.
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completebowler

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Re: Proshop blunders?
« Reply #17 on: April 08, 2010, 12:26:43 AM »
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A couple I can recall from my learning in the shop:

Was knocking down the dry plug on some balls in a hurry and got sidetracked. Went back and grabbed a ball thinking it was ready to go. Turned out it was the Track Sensor II I plugged the thumb on about 30 minutes ago. Ended up dumping plug down the front of my shirt. Nice and warm too from it beginning to harden. So much for that shirt.

Another one involved the plug cutter in the press. Forgot to zero out the table and was getting it near level and ended up taking a nice swipe of coverstock off since the cutting tool wasn't centered. Luckily it was my own ball and some clear plug made the slice nearly invisible.


Crank, I did the exact same thing with the plug cutter on one of my own once before too. Alot better than doing it to a customers piece though...lol.
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r534me

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Re: Proshop blunders?
« Reply #18 on: April 08, 2010, 11:42:26 AM »
My U2 was drilled for a right hander.  Pin placement was new to the driller, and I was not familiar with it at all.  The guy I traded the ball with was quite pleased with it.
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VBP-Dustin

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Re: Proshop blunders?
« Reply #19 on: April 08, 2010, 12:13:46 PM »
I was at the super hoinke one year I wanna say around 03-04 timeframe and had a flashpoint drilled right at it came out.  The guy nailed my specs and it was great then he had to put a weight hole in the ball and he put it on the wrong side of the ball.  So he was like that will be 189 or something and I said I think you need to drill me a new ball with the weight hole on the cdorrect side of the ball and he proceeds to tell me that it wasnt his fault and that he will drill it out so a slug fits in it and that will be fine.  Needless to say he drilled me a brand new ball with the weight hole on the correct side at no additional cost
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Re: Proshop blunders?
« Reply #20 on: April 11, 2010, 04:19:10 PM »
I scribe balls and I set up the thumb to be drilled off the center of the grip...

Had to eat it as there was really nothing I could do to fix it for the customer..

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BrunsBrent

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Re: Proshop blunders?
« Reply #21 on: April 11, 2010, 04:38:41 PM »
i dont know how i did it, but i once drilled an ambush for my buddy and was exactly 1/2 inch short on his span... still to this day i dont know how i did it. i might understand missing by a 1/16 or 1/8.... but this was bad
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Re: Proshop blunders?
« Reply #22 on: April 14, 2010, 10:31:29 PM »
I think all pro shop guys have made mistakes once in their life. I to have done the plug cutting without zeroing it our, also i am guilty of drilling a lefty a ball fit great but it was layed out for a righty. But he did receive a brand new ball layed out correctly. Haha! but hey everyone makes mistakes, this is how we learn sometimes.
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