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a_ak57

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Just noticed this...
« on: April 16, 2006, 08:26:16 AM »
After looking at another thread, I checked out the USBC approved ball list.  After seeing what I was after, I looked around and came upon where the zone classic was.  I was surprised to see this.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/a_ak57/ZoneClassicApproval.jpg

Unless it's a typo, Brunswick had the Red Pin zone classic sent in before the green pin to be approved as a new ball.  Assuming the list isn't an error, what does that mean in terms of the long assumed "during production a batch of the green pins cured too long, so brunswick put in red pins" thing?  Of course, that could have still happened and probably did, but it seems odd that the red pin would be sent in first for approval before the assumed regular version was.  Could there be something behind this, like brunswick planning to release the two versions as a combo but decided not to, or am I really just that bored on a Sunday thinking up conspiracy theories about trivial and insignificant things?

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Re: Just noticed this...
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2006, 05:33:15 PM »
If we knew how to read the serial numbers on a brunswick ball we would probably get a better idea of the date of production for most of the Red Pins.
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a_ak57

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Re: Just noticed this...
« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2006, 05:47:06 PM »
Interesting.  So that means technically the red scheme was the original, and Brunswick went to green for the second batch, the correct ones.
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Re: Just noticed this...
« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2006, 05:58:08 PM »
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If we knew how to read the serial numbers on a brunswick ball we would probably get a better idea of the date of production for most of the Red Pins.


My understanding has been that the first letter of the S/N is a month code, and the second letter a year code.

And yes, every Red Pin that I've ever seen has a month code that is earlier than or equal to the month codes for the Green Pins that I've seen.
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