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42swaff

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rico ?
« on: January 23, 2011, 03:36:32 AM »
can i drill a ball rico with box specs,, 3in pin  , 3 1/4 top

 im curious for i was told no, just looking for another opinoin

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Re: rico ?
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2011, 11:45:00 AM »
The 3 1/4oz topweight would make it real tough, but I think, possible.

 

 To remain "legal" you could only have 1oz of thumbweight or 1oz of sideweight. While not totally accurate, this means that you would need to remove around 2 1/4oz weight with the X-hole.

 

 According to the chart, a 1 3/16 hole, 2 1/2 inches deep, will remove 2 1/4oz of weight.  This means that the X-hole you would need to drill this ball RICO would be in the neighborhood of that size and depth.

 


 

 PLEASE UNDERSTAND, this is not totally accurate because the CG will only be 3 inches from the pin while the x-hole is supposed to be 6 3/4 inches from the pin. You might not have to remove quite as much weight because, once you start drilling the x-hole, the CG will move away from the x-hole and back towards the top of the ball, where you can have up to three ounces of topweight.

 

 You would just have to keep drilling and re-weighing the ball until you got it to fall into specs.



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Re: rico ?
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2011, 05:45:32 PM »
The determining factors would be your ring finger span, as well as the thumb hole size....

Taking that into consideration, I would not say you could not use this ball. Depending on the type of bowling ball, it probably will require a weight hole approx 2" X 2 1/2" deep.

 


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Re: rico ?
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2011, 05:46:32 PM »
1 x 2 1/2 deep
 
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Re: rico ?
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2011, 05:57:35 PM »
LOL thanks for catching that.....oops.


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Re: rico ?
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2011, 07:22:29 PM »
The easiest way to figure it out is lay the ball out and then put it on a scale. That will give you the exact starting weights and how much weight you will need removed. I've had no problem with 3ozs before, so I imagine your chances are pretty good.

 

Is the ball 14 or 15?


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Re: rico ?
« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2011, 07:38:20 PM »
ball is #15-3, 3oz top, 2.5 pin, bank pearl

span is 4 5/16

planning on useing  the I T systemwhich is the lrg one



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Re: rico ?
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2011, 08:02:09 PM »
Using the IT can not only change the statics but the dynamics and extremely on some cores.

 

With those specs, you should be fine. As previously suggested, lay the ball out and weigh it. Drill it and check to see how much it changed.

 

No matter what the specs show...still place the weight hole at 6 3/4".


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Re: rico ?
« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2011, 05:09:11 AM »
With those specs you should have no problems getting the ball legal when it is time to add the weight hole.


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