lukeamdman
Active Member
Unless you're trying to break in a bat and lower the compression, there's not much reason to hit anything other than 52s in BP.
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Savalicious
They Call Me Hollywood
Fire flex spanked in gold weather and held up in a make shift homerun derby with stones. We put over 250+ on it and it's hitting laser, haven't tested it after hits, but it's probably failing if had to guess. We broke the ghost after 100 cuts, but was fire up to that point.
Savalicious
They Call Me Hollywood
Ghost hits we're all with good condition 52s
TWmccoy
3DX Connoisseur
I agree with this completely. I see guys blowing through bucket after bucket of classic Ms with new bats and blowing them up fast. People simply don't understand the concept that there are different cor/compression balls out there. I think they just blithely hit whatever balls they have. I can't think of really any bat out there that will stand up to continual BP with classic Ms.
I only hit .52s in BP, and I only use metal bats. Occasionally wood. All the bats I BP with are deader and have smaller sweetspots than what I use in games. BTW, I've never broken a bat on .52s. Even after thousands of swings with metal bats that would be triangles with classic Ms in 10 swings.
TWmccoy
3DX Connoisseur
That's bad. Any bat that can't stand up to ONLY hitting .52s has no place in this world. Its either defective, or Easton really crapped the bed there. I figure any bat ought to last 1000 swings MINIMUM if you only hit .52s with it.
Imx guess back to 2004 though. The ronins should have absolutely been tct tech and dual stamp. I refuse to believe that one standard isn't lower, especially older tech. Just use whichever one passes both tests. Take the torq handle if and that would be a great dual stamp for those of us that want some more durability.
I'm not buying all new balls because the associations and bat companies decided to suck. That being said, I have only bought 52s for the last three years and have older bats for harder balls when I need them. My hard balls are so old I don't know what they'd actually register as. I have some 525s that sound more like 52s.
So I have a 28oz fireflex that didn’t even last a month! Sad sad day! It’s only a tiny crack but the fact that an Easton cracked on me in such little time is killer! I was hoping it was just a paint defect but nope it’s lifted! Sounds dead too when hitting! I was trying to post pics to get ur all’s opinions but it said the file was too large! Pretty upset about this tho.. should I call Easton cs and let em know?
bird25
34/30 Club #25
How many swings with what balls in what temps?
Less than 100 swings.. nothing below 60 degrees maybe even 65.. 40/325
lukeamdman
Active Member
...why...
lukeamdman
Active Member
In games it's what we hit here as well, but it terms of game balls it's by far the hardest ball on a bat. In BP stick to the 52/300 and you'll never break a bat.
I didn’t bp it at all.. heard it wasn’t made for it. All game hits unfortunately.. a tad bit of pepper before a game maybe but that’s about it.
lukeamdman
Active Member
Well that stinks.
What'd I'd do is get a SP16BHFXU and if the temp drops below 75 use that instead. They can be found new for about $120 shipped. Endload and sweet spot should be about the same but it's way more durable.
WillW3
Starting Player
Maybe because that’s a classic m, and they’re not uncommon?
lukeamdman
Active Member
But do you recommend using them for BP is the question. As he already clarified, this didn't happen during BP but that was my original assumption.
WillW3
Starting Player
Yeah the way you put it looked like you were asking why they use classic M’s in games
kyle071353
Lets Go Bears!
Where can u get a balance fireflex from?
Zpete1
Extra Hitter
Canada
robertryder80
Member
Hey bud- could you let me know where you bought yours at? I'm looking to possibly buy one.
bird25
34/30 Club #25
Buy it from the store here. Start a conversation with milocoman and he will give you a great price
jhitman
Well-Known Member
I bought it from the store here on softballfans. It's a nice bat but haven't had a chance to put more than about 25 swings on it with the cold temps.
AmishFusion
Addicted to Softballfans
had my flex tested at a conference event this past weekend with about 250-300 swings on it that failed at 180.... got to test 25 bats... had 8 fail... all were eastons but 1.
After talking to a local rep, it looks like Easton tried to fix the compression issue. This is directly from a known/famous Easton sponsored played. They added a small composite layer to try to fix the testing issues. If your bar code starts with AF it has the new layer composite, if it has AE that is the old failing composite.
Great, a new OG/bubble sticker/1st batch thing
We will see how much of a difference it actually makes though... I have a 200 hit FAB14, webbing all over, interesting to see what it tests at.