Got a Core out finally.

[bowl1820]

Well I had a couple of cracked balls sitting around, letting them just keep cracking. Finally decided to chuck them out, so got the hammer and chisel out.

The first one was my old Cell, put the chisel in the crack and gave it a tap. The ball and core split clean in half.

The next was my Meanstreak beatdown I won here, put the chisel in the crack and gave it a tap. Pop half the ball came off the core, the filler had seperated from the core.

The core was still in the other half, I had to pull out the thumb insert and chip a small piece off by the core.

Then the core popped out. So I finally got a whole one out.

The core weighed about 4 3/4 lbs.

[JaxBowlingGuy]

I have a Storm XFactor Ace and Attitude Shift I'm working on

[bowl1820]

It's amazing how hard that filler and coverstock is when your hitting it with a hammer and chisel.

And you wonder how they wind up with big chunks out them after they hit something at the lanes.

[JaxBowlingGuy]

The balls in general are really hard. I took a cracked ball out back of my shop one day when it was slow and threw it as high as I could into the air and letting it fall to the concrete. It chipped the concrete road.

[RobLV1]

Interesting that with a core that weights over 4 1/2 lbs. with the weight unevenly distributed, that some bowlers still believe that a 1 oz. static weight imbalance will have any effect on the reaction of a modern bowling ball.

[JaxBowlingGuy]

Got one today

Storm attitude shift

[bowl1820]

That ball material is pretty tough! Looks like it came out okay though.

[JaxBowlingGuy]

Got tired of getting the rest off lol. The core hadn't separated from the ball itself so had to chisel that stuff off