They make good engraving or soldering stands. Clamp one in the mill, and mill a flat in it big enough to hold your vise. Then set th bowling ball in a small trailer or lawn tractor tire, minus the tube and wheel, or cut off the legs from a worn out pair of pants, fill with sand, and put it into a circle, tie the ends to gether and drop the bowling ball into the now created donut.
Works pretty fair. I like the camera idea too. Thanks!
Gunner
Rule #35 "That which does not kill you, has made a huge tactical error"
My son recently used one as a great anvil while making a suit of armor. Drilled a deeper "thumb" hole and stuck a rebar in to hold it up in a stand. With a plastic dead-blow hammer it worked nicely on mild steel sheet, with no hammer marks. Kind of a poor man's English wheel :^) Smelled like fiberglass resin when we drilled it, so I guess they are made of some kind of composite.
Cut some 1/2" slices from the center and make clocks to sell to bowlers? Battery power clock modules and hands are fairly cheap, if you look around for a wholesaler.
Better yet, full half ball with long shaft clockworks...hands formed with a curve to match the ball surface. Weird to look at from odd angles but probably interesting on the wall
Unless you get some older balls. Before the advent of automatic pinsetters there were many different sizes so it might be a good idea to "measure once....." if picking up used balls at Goodwill, etc.
If only five pin balls were an inch bigger cause I have a nice piece of 6" ID pipe with 1/2" wall, and second son would like to play! Gerry :-)} London, Canada
Odd that you should mention pins. Bowling pins are used in a number of shooting sports as targets and as such..we sometimes have a few around...
Buddy made a cannon out of a chunk of Sched 80, just to shoot em. Actually fly pretty good if you put the small end..the head, in the tube first. If you put em in base first..they make the most godawful moaning sound as the fly more or less in the direction you fired em, as they tumble
Bowling balls are the seige mortor ammo..bowling pins are the German 88 rounds. We shot one completly though a 68 Chevy pickup truck at about
200 yrds. We were just simply trying to hit it..and once we figured out how to aim etc..we were punching consistant 4" diameter holes through both sides of just about anything we aimed it at. And the bastards are so tough we could get a surprising number of reloads out of them
Gunner
Political Correctness
A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
On the other hand, if this was 40 years ago I would have drilled a deep hole in it to hollow out most of it, then fill it with homemade black powder and a five minute fuse, and watched it roll down a long, gentle hill in the woods near my home. they were using lots of dynamite about a mile a way, and no one would have noticed one more big bang! It would ahve looked like one of Borris Badinov's bombs on "Rocky and Bullwinkle". ;-)
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