"The Automatic Pinspotter" | Omnibus With Alistair Cooke
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- Excerpt: Omnibus delves into the mechanics of bowling machines; how they collect, return and place the pins ready for the next player to have their go.
Date aired - October 11th 1953 - The Automatic Pinspotter
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What's your favourite moment from Omnibus so far?
This one!
3:20 The man hitting the 10 pin even though his ball is going way left lol.
Ahh the 8230s. Pin chased on those on the 12 lane local house in the 80s. They replaced them about 20 years ago. A local pro shop bought another old blowing alley for that purpose and still uses the 8230s to this day.
Brings back memories working on those. that one looks like the 82-30 4400. I'm familiar with the 6525s which came a little later before the 8270
I set pins by hand back in 1955 at an Elks Club. I got hit by a pin and my parents wouldn't allow me to go back. On a good night I could make three dollars jumping two lanes.
This is the very earliest AMF 82-30 pinspotter with the 3930 "latch" chassis, where the distributor rested at the 10-pin as opposed to the 7-pin (IIRC most of the later 3930 chassis and all 4400s, 5850s, & 6525s, rested at the 7-pin also).
Many bowling centers still have these machines. One of the greatest underrated inventions. Where my parents live on upstate New York, there's a center with 30 lanes with these pinsetters. If you take care of them they will last forever.
my church just inherited 14 of these although due to lack of replacement parts, they may convert to something newer or possibly string machines
Not so sure I'd say many but some still do. My local 8230 house just recently swapped them out for 8270's from a house that closed.
I once did a tournament at an alley that had old pinsetters like these and the ball returns were above ground. It was really distracting seeing the balls rolling back at me when I was trying to focus on my shot but I think I got used to it. It also really messed up some of the bowlers with big hooks because they couldn’t finish in front of the ball return due to the return track being there. It was fun to see one time but I’m glad everything now is underground and pushed back to better accommodate today’s game
AMF 82-30 pinspotter with 3930 chassis.
Brings back a lot of memories. In the town I grew up in, we had a small 10 lane house that had the exact equipment in this video (masking units and sweep bar, with over lane returns. The returns were not AMF's, as I recall they said 'Blatt' on them and the reset button was all the way up near the foul line instead of the bowler area). It stayed that way until the late 1960's when they 'upgraded' the sweeps and masking units to the AMF ones popular in the early 1960's (seen on a lot of the old Championship Bowling shows) but without the Spare Maker arrows. It remained that way until the early 1970's when the establishment closed and became a Taylor Rental location. I don't believe anyone ever shot a 300 in that house.
Yep Blatt is right - they were out of Trenton, NJ
The AMF 8230 pinspotter.
very cool...thanks for sharing...
After working on A1 pinsetters I see AMF machines already being far ahead in reducing the mechanical completely along with making a safer machine. I really think Brunswick is sadistic
Brunswick - 3 minutes to find the problem, 3 hours to fix it.
AMF - 3 hours to find the problem, 3 minutes to fix it.
Great video! Id just like to know how that guy picked up the 10 pin at 3:20 with the ball going so far left lol.
Haha I was thinking the same thing.
Haha I was thinking the same thing.
Called Cross Lane Shooting!
I wonder why the pinboy wasn't using the spin spot pegs
I set pins that way in 1955. The spots had the holes for the pins. Maybe the under lane foot lever was broken.
AMF 82/30 pinsetter started 1955 until stop make 1962.
AMF 82-30 pinsetters started 1955 but old fart slow!!
Put all the pin jockeys on the unemployment line.