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Equipment Boards => Other => Topic started by: bigdaddy1808 on February 25, 2013, 07:57:58 AM
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Anyone have any info on a eureka tank never seen it before
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It was urethane, don't recall if it was a pancake weight block or something more like a Blue Hammer.
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Yeah that's what I'm trying to find out
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The Tank had a real big core in it. Almost shaped like the bottom of a Tank. Not very dynamic flare wise but it did lower the RG so it rolled a bit early. I remember a youth league teammate having a powder blue one. Not sure who poured them.
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Not much use, but here it is - http://www.123bowl.com/ball.cfm?ballid=1094 (http://www.123bowl.com/ball.cfm?ballid=1094)
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The Tank was made by Eureka Urethane industries, which as the name implies is a urethane company. They made one other ball and that was a red Budwieser urethane ball. The Tank had a pancake weight block to it, nothing fancy. Even though the ball came sanded it went real long and had a nice even roll to it. The major problem was that they were a urethane company and not a bowling ball company, and there were many problems with their cores and pours. Because of this we saw a lot of ball come out with voids/hollow spaces in them. They'd crack or you'd bang on the shell and hear the "echo" from the void underneath.