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pin-smasher

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excessive top weight
« on: June 14, 2011, 05:56:42 AM »
what is the best way to bring the top weight down,tied drilling thumb and fingers extra deep but still is over on top weight??? any ideals??

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Re: excessive top weight
« Reply #16 on: June 15, 2011, 02:41:47 PM »

  He says that it is drilled pin down with the cg in the center of his grip. This makes me wonder how his sideweight was up to 1 oz, but that isn't the problem, so I didn't directly address that.

 

 The problem is excessive topweight, so I made suggestions to alleviate that as the major problem, and hopefully have beneficial side effects on the sideweight as well.



Stan wrote on 6/15/2011 2:37 PM:
Do not understand.  If your grip was offset from the cg and you drilled a balance hole to make the side weight legal, I can not understand how the top weight is still off.  The top weight is located below the cg, since it is offset from the grip, you would have had a lot of side weight.  If you removed the additional side weight, then you also removed the top weight.  What am I missing ????


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Re: excessive top weight
« Reply #17 on: June 16, 2011, 07:51:34 AM »
I should have asked this before I posted earlier -- you do realize you're allowed 3 oz of top weight?  --  JohnP


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Re: excessive top weight
« Reply #18 on: June 16, 2011, 05:45:02 PM »
the box says it had 8 1/4 oz top weight to began with and even with all i did it wont go below 3oz so far

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Re: excessive top weight
« Reply #19 on: June 16, 2011, 06:30:33 PM »

  GEEEEEEEEEZ thats a lot of topweight.

 

  Have you done anything else to it yet?  You may need to put the weighthole dead center of the topweight(CG).

 

 Keep us posted as to how it works out, I'm pretty curious now.



pin-smasher wrote on 6/16/2011 5:45 PM:the box says it had 8 1/4 oz top weight to began with and even with all i did it wont go below 3oz so far

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Re: excessive top weight
« Reply #20 on: June 17, 2011, 07:50:21 AM »
WOW!  Here's some things you can try that I normally wouldn't recommend.  Use a 1 3/8" (or even 1 1/2" if you're set up for that) slug.  Drill to normal slug depth with the 1 3/8" bit, then replace it with a 11/4" bit and drill to 4".  Similarly, with the finger holes use a 1 1/4" slug to normal slug depth then 1 1/8" to 3 1/2" depth.  You'll have to plug the existing finger holes and narrow the bridge width for the two slugs so there's some bridge left when you drill the 31/32" holes for the finger grips.  Good luck.  --  JohnP


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Re: excessive top weight
« Reply #21 on: July 10, 2011, 06:34:06 PM »
Doesn't seem that the ball might have been mismarked.  With the side being almost 1 oz with the ball drilled straight up label, I would think with an oz of side weight, that the ball was mismarked.

 

 


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Re: excessive top weight
« Reply #22 on: July 10, 2011, 10:37:18 PM »
An old Indian once said  "let the buyer beware"


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Re: excessive top weight
« Reply #23 on: July 11, 2011, 07:38:17 AM »
I do not think you can remove over 5oz of weight without messing up other static weights.  Like already said, fingers/thumb deep and then drill a hole in the center of the grip (assuming no other weight hole) and see what happens.

 

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Re: excessive top weight
« Reply #24 on: July 11, 2011, 09:55:55 AM »
yeah,its pretty much a decoration now,i tried everything....just too much top weight there to get rid of.O well,no biggie i guess.You never know what your going to get when you buy X-outs.  


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Re: excessive top weight
« Reply #25 on: July 11, 2011, 11:47:30 AM »
...that ball should never have left the manufacturer.

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Re: excessive top weight
« Reply #26 on: July 11, 2011, 12:36:25 PM »
I would contact the manufacturer and ask them what they can do for you.  Obviously this was an X-Out that should of never even been sold.   They do throw away X-Outs that really have no chance at becoming a legal bowling ball once drilled.  Most of your X-Outs are usable with some creative layout skills.   It's obvious this ball passed through whatever inspections are put in place and should of never been sold even as an X-Out.   You spent good money on a ball that had little to no options for you to drill.  

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