Great idea but there's minimum order/runs for a reason.
Set up process and everything else needed to make a run of balls along with the small percentage of seconds make this very costly. Not to mention stopping production of other products to make a bunch or a few randoms would be a nightmare.
Cool idea but very likely more trouble then it's worth. Brunswick at one time had this information posted. It was a minimum run of 800 and a minimum of 80 I believe for any ball weight chosen.
Totally get it. Production nightmare.
Would require new machinery that has the ability to adapt quickly to new input. Something that in a sense works like the touch screen soda machines Coke or whomever put out. More advance to where orders are uploaded into the machine from a management system. The machine then would pull from the pre-loaded materials - changing for each order. You could even set it to queue up orders for a set amount of hours, organize them by similar core or coverstock and then send them through the process. Just rambling at this point but if the industry had the money of the NFL this could be done haha.
I feel like USBC approval should't be an issue. If the core and cover are approved - the combinations of them shouldn't alter that approval. Color choices shouldn't matter either.
Covers and cores by themselves are not approved by themselves - it is the ball as a whole that is tested and subject to the approval process. You are not considering the fact that the USBC would have to completely overhaul their testing and approval process. No small task....
I may need a more in depth understanding of what the USBC considers during it's testing and how it goes about it. I also wonder if the cores and covers are not approved by themselves because they honestly just haven't implemented a way of testing them individually.
Please note this concept is in good fun. Not looking to implement this or even have the means to bring this concept to life.
I know, I'm just being a total killjoy. I think the idea has merit but given the money and politics of the bowling industry, it just can't happen as it's currently constructed.
However, I'll play along. I would like to see as many covers as possible wrapped around the Roto Nucleus core and the Storm NOS core. Because, why not?
Haha all good! Sometimes fun to play devils advocate.
I would definitely throw an order in for a Nucleus core and NOS core option.
