Crumbling Above Finger Hole

[dnhoffman]

Oh and you're in CA, you may only ever need two!

[tccstudent]

I had all my balls converted to the switch grip when they first came out. The ones now seem to be better and safer. I quit for two reasons I had heard horror stories of them breaking and seriously messing up someone's hand ( A few people told me stories of someone getting the ligaments in their hand torn after using the switch grip) The one I was using just had two real small plastic notches that wouldn't take much to break. The other problem is they only came in 1 1/4" and not the 1 3/8" and with my big thumb there was hardly any slug material left and eventually the slug actually came completely out of the switch grip and I had enough and just went back to normal slugs. I have a friend who has the new IT and it seems much better but he has had problems with it I think because of shotty installation. So for now I will just stick with the slugs maybe after my proshop gets more experience installing them I might give them a chance down the road.

[Blacksox1]

The crumbling plastic spare ball, I would use it until I lost confidence in it. At that point a new plastic Pyramid would be my choice ! The switch grips are good. I have two different sized grips to use. This solves the adding/ removing of tape. Trying out others' equipment is so much easier now.

[Josch]

I got the spare ball replaced for free. I had to pay $50 for drilling but I think it was worth it. The old one was approaching 2 years old and starting to get a little beat up.

[Mike White]

Oh and you're in CA, you may only ever need two!

We have seasons in California, we just choose to skip the bad ones.

[richardsymms]

Thanks for the info! My T-Zone chipped a lot round the thumb hole and I finally replaced with the same T-Zone - have grips and so now will be sure not to put glue close to the top.

[Ptnomore]

I'm still shooting spares with an early '80's Columbia 300 White Dot. Never had any chipping/cracking issues with it that the newer "Plastics" have. All T-Zones, WD's, Maxims, that I see are chipping badly around the finger holes within 2-3 years. Only plastic ones I can think of that I haven't personally seen with those issues is the Taboo Spare or the Storm Spare balls (Ice, brain, etc).