Mar 12, 2012 De-coding a Serial Number Does anyone know of a way to tell by the serial number (by brand) when the ball was manufactured. My Virtual gravity starts with 09, knowing this ball was manufactured in 09 I can only assume that storm starts theirs of with the year. What is the age and composition of a Brunswick Black Beauty Bowling Ball with a serial number L26626? The last option is a web search. Try typing in the product number and see what comes up. One can find information about Brunswick bowling balls on a number of webpages. May 18, 2005 I want to know how old my colombian 300 yellow dot is the serial number is 6s84608. How old is my bowling ball. ExBronxiteBowler PBA Senior Bowler Registered: 04/19/05. I want to know how old my colombian 300 yellow dot is the serial number is 6s84608. Bowling ball serial numbers « on: August 30, 2014, 01:39:21 PM » Before I stopped bowling back in 1996, the first digit of a bowling ball's serial number was the way of identifying what year it was made (e.g., 5B112345). Each ball is also unique as the serial number coincides with that number in the line. By the most trusted and recognized name in bowling, Brunswick. Hello Bowling Fans. Welcome to the Forum 'Fgreco'. ExBronx is absolutely right. The first digit in Columbia serial numbers is the year. The second digit is the month. There was a Yellow Dot produced in the Urethane era. But I have to agree with you the you have a vintage 1976 Yellow Dot made in September.
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AMF house sent out my Marvel Q to resurface and they took out my seriel number. Is that a big deal?
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AMF house sent out my Marvel Q to resurface and they took out my seriel number. Is that a big deal?
How many times have you resurfaced the ball?
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Once but the storm,s internationl balls that are USBS approved. The engraving is not very deep
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Hopefully you have the Serial Number written down. If so all you need to do is have it engraved back on the ball. Perfectly legal for the bowler to do that per rule. But you need to have the serial number in the ball. I am certain it will never be an issue UNLESS you win some money and someone notices there are no numbers.......then you will wish otherwise!
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Then see if you can have it reengraved.
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Somewhat off topic, but this is so strange to me. I've had balls I resurfaced 20 times and never lost a serial number, but this ball gets resurfaced once and loses the whole thing? Man, talk about weird luck. Was this a traditional spinner or a Haus?
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If the ball is lighter than 15lb, it could be that the ball diameter is smaller and the engraving is shallower than heavier balls. I have a Brunswick ball ring and have seen that 15's for the most part are close to the diameter and the light weight ones are noticeably smaller. Most 16's don't pass thru or barely pass.
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The ball must have a serial number, it doesnt have to be the original number. Any number added for identification purposes.
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Originally Posted by pastordug
Hopefully you have the Serial Number written down. If so all you need to do is have it engraved back on the ball. Perfectly legal for the bowler to do that per rule. But you need to have the serial number in the ball. I am certain it will never be an issue UNLESS you win some money and someone notices there are no numbers.......then you will wish otherwise!
You don't have to use the org. serial number it can be any number.
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Are the ball Logos intact and complete? both the Storm and Marvel? Those can't be re-engraved.
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Your AMF house sent it out for resurfacing? Guess I am confused, no pro shop possibly?
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I have an old lightning storm where there is only a small portion of the Storm logo remaining, all other logos and serial number are gone. It's just a purple ball now.
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Originally Posted by pastordug
Hopefully you have the Serial Number written down. If so all you need to do is have it engraved back on the ball. Perfectly legal for the bowler to do that per rule. But you need to have the serial number in the ball. I am certain it will never be an issue UNLESS you win some money and someone notices there are no numbers.......then you will wish otherwise!
This happened to me. Qualified on Day 1 in an ABT; the checked balls to start the second session and discovered my old Magic Circle had had the serial sanded off. Luckily, they just had me take it to the pro shop and put on a unique number ('BR-549' for you TV connesouirs) and fined me $5.
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Originally Posted by TurkeyLurkey
This happened to me. Qualified on Day 1 in an ABT; the checked balls to start the second session and discovered my old Magic Circle had had the serial sanded off. Luckily, they just had me take it to the pro shop and put on a unique number ('BR-549' for you TV connesouirs) and fined me $5.
Lol! Funny how money changes things! It's like shoes. Prior to regionals allowing all shoes you had to have PBA equipment. 99.9% of the time you could get away with the other shoes......until you win!
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