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Title: Proshop blunders?
Post by: agroves 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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Title: Re: Proshop blunders?
Post by: BBU on April 07, 2010, 01:50:26 AM: I got so drunk once during a tournament that I brought the wrong ball the driller to change out the finger grips...LOL

After he got done I was like chit!!! I was so embarassed and had to go up and get the right ball and have him do it again.
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Title: Re: Proshop blunders?
Post by: BrunsNick on April 07, 2010, 03:28:06 AM: I once forgot to lock down the engraver letters... needless to say the name didn't come out right!
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Title: Re: Proshop blunders?
Post by: The Bowlers Edge 2 on April 07, 2010, 04:32:35 AM: but it gives it that cool 3d looking affect.
quote:
I once forgot to lock down the engraver letters... needless to say the name didn't come out right!
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Title: Re: Proshop blunders?
Post by: ginro on April 07, 2010, 04:47:29 AM: quote:
I got so drunk once during a tournament that I brought the wrong ball the driller to change out the finger grips...LOL

After he got done I was like chit!!! I was so embarassed and had to go up and get the right ball and have him do it again.
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Title: Re: Proshop blunders?
Post by: on April 07, 2010, 09:23:08 AM: We were in a hurry one day years ago and had two Intense Infernos side by side (15 & 14) to drill. Grabbed the wrong one (14) and started drilling it to my specs before we said "this one feels light". Too late to turn back.

Finished drilling it, I took it out on the lanes and shot 300 with the 14 pounder. I ended up selling it cheap to a customer who uses 14s. DUMB on both parts!

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Title: Re: Proshop blunders?
Post by: Stickythumbhole on April 07, 2010, 09:54:05 AM: What does this have to do with the PBA?
Title: Re: Proshop blunders?
Post by: x1a4 on April 07, 2010, 09:54:43 AM: i bought a ball and had it punched up, the statics were not legal but I threw it to determine where I wanted the x-hole. I told him to put the hole 2" below my pap on the val. he was busy so i told him i would come back in an hour. so I come back and he put the hole on the wrong side, there was a 1 1/8" crater in my track.
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Title: Re: Proshop blunders?
Post by: Monster Pike on April 07, 2010, 10:00:34 AM: quote:
What does this have to do with the PBA?

Maybe agroves is a Pro Bowler..???

M.P.
Title: Re: Proshop blunders?
Post by: on April 07, 2010, 12:36:25 PM: I also thought the original post was probably meant for a different section, but it's no big deal.

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Title: Re: Proshop blunders?
Post by: Mike L on April 07, 2010, 03:51:47 PM: drilled a customer a track rule, hit the thumb insert down and it cracked the shell, explained it to him, ordered another that took a week because of backorder and did the exact same thing lol. needless to say haven't seen him again, but i can't blame him
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Title: Re: Proshop blunders?
Post by: storm making it rain on April 07, 2010, 04:09:53 PM: Here's mine...

Measured a kids hand..I usually start with a thumb measurement. So I measure the rest of his hand, put on all the finishing touches on it.

We offer some free games with each drill, so the kid gets his shoes on picks up the ball and throws it left handed with no thumb..I was like wow..
Title: Re: Proshop blunders?
Post by: stormed1 on April 07, 2010, 05:29:52 PM: Had an employee drill one on the wrong side of the line for the thumb on a plugged thumb. Fortuanatly it was his ball.

Personally have done a few lefties righty over the last 28 years. Usually when i was in a hurry. Most recently grabbed the 1 3/8 bit instead of the 1 5/16 when doing an It
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Title: Re: Proshop blunders?
Post by: MattC7 on April 07, 2010, 09:45:08 PM: quote:
drilled a customer a track rule, hit the thumb insert down and it cracked the shell, explained it to him, ordered another that took a week because of backorder and did the exact same thing lol. needless to say haven't seen him again, but i can't blame him
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I've seen Rules get cracked when you looked at them the wrong way. it was an interesting ball to throw, but I had 3 that cracked, and were warrantied in a year....
Title: Re: Proshop blunders?
Post by: Hogsharley on April 07, 2010, 10:20:24 PM: http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r7/Hogsharley/Picture006.jpg

I emailed this guy my drill sheet and he thought that the span distance was actual when in fact is was cut to cut. I told him to just redrill the thumb, I paid him $65 for everything and I never went back. Good thing it's only a Power Groove that I hardly use.
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Title: Re: Proshop blunders?
Post by: Crankenstein300 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.
Title: Re: Proshop blunders?
Post by: completebowler on April 08, 2010, 12:26:43 AM: quote:
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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Title: Re: Proshop blunders?
Post by: r534me 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.
Title: Re: Proshop blunders?
Post by: VBP-Dustin 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
Title: Re: Proshop blunders?
Post by: BeansProShop 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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Title: Re: Proshop blunders?
Post by: BrunsBrent 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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Title: Re: Proshop blunders?
Post by: stroked298 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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