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Equipment Boards => Hammer => Topic started by: pin-smasher on May 02, 2013, 10:45:46 PM
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Anyone else drill up a wrench.drilled one up since hammer sent it to me as a replacement for my cracked epidemic and wow am I dissapointed.Ball just skates on any oil and isnt much better on the dry....wish I could go back in time and sell it before I drilled it up...
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I threw a wrench that the shop had as a try before you buy thing... saw the same exact reaction as you described. it was pretty disappointing
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I bowl with the guy that owns the Pro Shop in our center and he drilled one up and threw it for all of 6 frames he said it was one of the worst balls he had ever thrown.
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Its the worst hammer I have ever thrown I will say
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I have one that I drilled after I fell in love with the Ratchet and drilled it the same way..pin over bridge mb abouit 3 inches right of my thumb. Yes, the Wrench cannot take a lot of oil...but in my opinion thats what it was designed for. For me this ball is great on medium to drier lanes and especially on wood. It has great length and a smooth backend for me which I prefer now over a skip/snap reaction...I get that out of the Jet Black Taboo and First Blood.
Just my 2 cents.
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The Wrench is designed to be used on the medium to medium lighter patterns. This cover on this ball is long with a good amount of backend motion that is more of a controlled backend motion, not a skid/flip... I have drilled several of these for bowlers in my area & the love this ball for the medium patterns we face in our center. Just my 2 cents...
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Well I went by hammers website which claims it to be a skid/flip ball for medium oil but ball does not live up to that as far as im concerned
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Would have to agree with you, but we do have a few other skid/flip balls in our lineup... Taboo Jet Black, First Blood, and the new TNBA Chalk.
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I ordered the chalk already but was confused on the coverstock..it says gtr pearl so is it like a pearl taboo cover which is what im hoping since they had gtr, gtrII pearl, gtrIII pearl and gtrIV pearl
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So far I have
first blood-awesome ball
arson-beyond awesome ball
black taboo-good ball
taboo-awesome ball
chalk-beyond awesome
brick-good ball
jigsaw-awesome ball
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Not meaning to hi-jack this thread but, could it be that this ball is condition specific? And even more so.....house specific?
Case in point: I have a gold LaneMasters Fantasy-X. This was supposed to be a go long, hit hard piece yet, I couldn't use it in any of the houses I frequent. Ball just skated, with no turn. Went to a tourny in Gastonia, NC and tried it on a dryish house shot down there, and the ball was MONEY! Went to a tourny in southern virginia, and used it in a Bowl America house, on a dryish shot.....ball again was money! But if I took it to an AMF house, or a Brunswick house, north of the Mason-Dixon line, it was a turd.
So it really isn't a bad ball, it just needs the right conditions. I'm just sayin'.
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Its possible...maybe will work for light oil when other balls are hooking way to early...I will see, dont want give up on a brand new ball just yet...was kind of bummed though .hammer sent as replacement fo ny epidemic
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Was bummed to hear chalk had pearl jet black coverstock...I will not drill it up since I know it wont work for me
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My area must be in the minority, a bunch of us drilled the wrench and have been very pleased with it. I throw mine a ton and on medium conditions it works really well.
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Was bummed to hear chalk had pearl jet black coverstock...I will not drill it up since I know it wont work for me
If that's the only ball you have with that core, there is a reasonable chance that you might match up with that coverstock on a different core. Asymmetric balls are notoriously finicky, though the MPA core is mildly asymmetric.
You don't really indicate how it's drilled or if you've resurfaced it either...
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Ball is drilled 50x4.5x20 with out of box finish
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Try knocking the polish off and see. Coverstock manipulation can really make a difference, so try playing with it.
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Yeah..I will try that, got to go down this week to practice a few games anyway....been throwing ball horrible last week and half
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With a 20* VAL angle and such a small drilling angle, unless you have no hand, the ball may be hooking early and dying out.
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Well it was only ball that I had that wasnt hooking, my teammate also has one and it doesnt move much either
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When the Deal was on the market my local shop was having to resurface enough of the Hammer equipment that he found it simpler to just recommend something else that he wouldn't have to spend an additional 15 minutes on to get the reaction the customer was expecting.
It happens... Hammer (all of EBI essentially) has taken steps to reduce "over polishing" but I could see a few slipping onto the wrong polishing line and slipping through the cracks.
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Anythings possible I suppose, this is the first hammer that didnt react just like I expected.i was very surprised when I threw it.
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With a 20* VAL angle and such a small drilling angle, unless you have no hand, the ball may be hooking early and dying out.
The Wrench has a very slightly asymmetric core, .008 MB. The after-drilling drilling angle will be pulled from the marked MB toward the thumb hole, increasing it. You would have to have access to a DeTerminator to know exactly what it is. -- JohnP
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I am comparing it to all my other hammer equipment.the night I tried it I had 2 other hammers and wrench was only one not making the turn.ball would somewhat make it to pocket when I moved right and played up 5 board but when I moved in it would never recover