As a teenager in the early 90's I worked as pinsetter mechanic on the ol' Brunswick A2. After all these years, just last week I was wondering how pinsetters had evolved and how the newer ones worked compared to the A2. Looks like a lot has changed. Cool video!!
Hello Matt. I'm a 63 year old geezer about to restart my "bowling mechanic" career. I enjoyed your video which completely covers all the functionality of this 14' tall machine..
Nicely photographed, edited, explained, and narrated. I worked on Model A's part-time, nearly 45 years ago, before getting into radio and TV work full-time.
Gene Davis thank you very much! If you don't mind me asking what kind of tv work are you involved in? I'm currently making my may into that field so I'm curious about all the different options.
I know SOME users have a personal message box. I’ve found instructions that say the user must have a “confirmed name”, but I have no idea what that means. Matt - My very secondary email address is RadioGeno2(at)yahoo(dot)com … I have stopped using it, mostly, so I don’t care how much spam I get there. Once I receive a message from you at that address, I will let you know my real name and email address, okay? Then you can find me on FB.
A moment of silence for that one pin that’s worked there for 30 years and still hasn’t found a station and is just on an endless cycle constantly traveling through the distributor
I just wanted to say I started working for a bowling entertainment center and I found this super useful as starting tech myself! Thank you so much i think i might just watch it a couple more times
Spent my two weeks up in Muskegon learning these machines and the associated Vector scoring system, then five years actually working on them til the company shut down. Still got all the error codes memorized. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
This is great! I've been fascinated by bowling and automatic pinsetters ever since I was a kid, and always thought about how cool it would be to find a "tabletop" or miniature version for a home game, but I guess it would be too expensive. It would be a cool project to try and design a small, workable version of a pinsetter.
Great video ! I was a pinsetter mechanic a long time ago as well. The older Brunswick machines were a bit different, but same components. We would mess with people we knew at times by hooking on center pin from above, not allowing it to fall, or setting it back up. The things we do when bored..
Really should mention the fact that other than the main framework of these machines all the parts are made from plastic. Strong plastic, but still plastic. These machines are amazing. When you truly understand every little interaction that takes place its incredible to watch work
Great video ! My first bowling job was a pin boy. I would sit on a bench above and behind the pins. Yes. That job came with lots of bruises and a couple of broken fingers. Pay ? $0.50 cents a game. The league bowlers would tip the pin boys very nicely. Normally I would set 2 lanes at a time. Sometimes up to 4 lanes.
This machine looks like a Brunswick GS series pinsetter. They are very rare. About 20 years ago, I bowled in a house in Baltimore that had the first generation of GS machines. They are very smooth, fast and quiet. The house I bowled in had the machines set for double detection; ie after the second ball the setting table comes down to check for standing wood before it is swept away. I understand that the GS machines can also be programed for traditional single detection, like the Brunswick A2 or the AMF 82/70 for use with optical scoring systems. I also know, from TH-cam videos from Brunswick that the GS, series, at least the GSX, has two florescent fixtures, the second one used for black light bowling.
I miss the old Brunswick A2s/Jet Backs and the noise of the pins on the old elevator ring and the circular pin distribution assembly... Damn well foolproof! I also liked the way the old sweepers worked on the old ones as well... A tried and true design that still works at quite a few bowling centers even after 60 years...
Hurricoaster that's awesome if you google Brunswick GSX pinsetter and look for a PDF manual there should be some good schematic views of the machine that might be able to help with any visuals that were not covered in the video.
Can you do a vid showing details of the pin elevator a little more. Really interested to see how the shovels tip at pin release and go into position to lift a pin at base of elevator. Haven't seen any good videos where this is detailed.
I honestly miss working at my old bowling alley, not for the company themselves. I was at a bowling alley with these Brunswick GSX machines, I was there for 6 years, and I was the head mechanic for about 4 years after the previous head mechanic resigned. I left the place because the company was absolutely horrible and I can’t even start with the list, for example, I never was able to request off, I was ALWAYS on call, and even still had to stop in on my days off to make sure that machines were running and the other mechanics weren’t just simply NOT fixing them. But I wasn’t ONLY just the backend mechanic, I was also in charge of building maintenance like the bathrooms, lighting fixtures, tables and chairs, lazer rag, mini golf the HORRIBLE batting cages. I was the absolute best employee and always putting work first, it stressed me out so much that I started losing my hair at age of 22. Literally I was the only one that cared about the place so passionately, and I still do. I was going there ever since the place first opened. Then I finally started working there and my love for bowling just increased since. So I’m happy that Bowlero bought it out and ACTUaLLY renovated it and is doing amazing shit. I’m actually upset that I didn’t stick around just for another 1 1/2 years til they bought it, I would have been so estactic and happy. But I also have to include what added to the stress was me working a 2nd job and college classes full time, was doing that for 2 years at that point then I picked up a 3rd job doing hurricane shutter installations and that brought me up to working 105 hour work weeks and college classes, only did that for a whole year and then I got burnt out and eventually went to only working at the bowling alley and picking up shifts at the gas station like once or twice a month if I needed extra cash, and helping out when in the area. Shit for me to even get what they considered vacation time was working off the clock so they basically owed me those hours just so I can go on a vacation and yet out of those 6 years I only ever took a voluntary vacation of 4 days and that was like prying teeth. I had 2 motorcycle accidents within a year of each other and both accidents I was out of work for 4 months each. There were only 2-3 people I ACTUALLY and GENUINELY loved working with. One of them was a woman that was there basically since the start of the business and then when the company sold off and our GM stepped out with resignation she took over as GM. Truely the meaning of working up the ladder, but then when there was no more corporate, our district corporate guy came in saying that he wasn’t going to take her spot or anything of that sort and he did the exact opposite. Never took my advice on anything, suggestions, especially when he hired a assistant general manager that had NO, and I mean absolutely NO FUCKING clue about this area of activity. This kid literally walked in to shut our power off and give us notice because our company wasn’t paying the bills for months. I can guarantee you that shit would have been a lot better if I was at least promoted to assistant GM under that woman who I explained about. And then there was the 2nd person, he was the arcade manager and traveling arcade manager, dude was an absolute gem. He started showing me how to do arcade stuff like fixing the games, organizing the prizes, shit I helped bring in all the new games, helped assemble them even the big ass ones like connect 4, the BIG free throw game, Monster Drop, etc. literally I did EVERYONE’s job. Yes it wasn’t in my job description and I didn’t have to do it, but I did it because I loved the place. If I could work with those same people again, I would. It used to be all fine and dandy the first 2 years I worked there. Literally all of us employees were friends outside of work BEFORE I started working there. The 2 I spoke about literally watched me grow up from like 14 years old til I was 25. Shit was insane. Whenever I move tot exams I might try to apply to get back into another bowling alley. I would not but right now I’m working at a car dealership and making more money and learning a lot more shit than what these other companies would possibly pay me. But there’s just something genuine about solving a "ghost" problem or just a problematic machine like this, they are hard as hell at first but give it a few months of fixing things here and there, then you start to REALLY understand it all. But there are definitely a lot of things that are easier with a 2nd person, we techs never had that option. The only time there were 2 mechanics it was when shifts over lapped like either one person came in early or whoever opened stayed an extra hour or so, which was me 99% of the time both ways. Rule to the story, don’t sell yourself short. If you’re passionate about something don’t give up but don’t let your mental, physical and relationship health suffer because of a job. Don’t. Keep work at work and home stuff at home. I made the mistake of always bringing work home like pin holders, multiples at once, rollers, ball doors, actuators etc, fix me at home then bring them back the next day. The stress I brought home every day, there were days upon days or and even weeks that When I rode my motorcycle to work that I hoped someone would pull out in front of me and end it right then and there, but I’m glad it didn’t. I’m glad nothing of that sort ever happened. Well that ended up killing me, my first accident was someone failed to yield a left turn but I just got ejected over the car, and a couple cuts and bruises. But like i said don’t ever let a job beat you up like I let this beat me up. No matter how much you love the shit. Your own well being is more important,
Thats a nice shiney new machine ya got there!! Keep in mind there are setters out there still working had after 60 or so YEARS!! Some old skool tech out there still cranking away!
Are there 2 sets of pins per lane. I’m talking about the ones that are on the lane, ready to be knocked over and the ones on that elevator ready to be lowered for a new player.
Yep that looks awfully like the gsx pinsetters we have. Love it when a e76 comes through with a pin getting jammed in the rotating pin holder on the setting table. X3
worked on a ally of amf machines in the early 60's .fun job but you had to be careful of flying pins. they are heavy and hurt, i could change out parts , switches , but the big stuff we left to the local amf repairman, sweep and oiled the lanes and played a few free games , good job.
The wall at the back of the lane you can see catches the ball because it is too short for the ball to go under the pins however slip right under and the floor behind the end of the lane in the pit moves away from the bowler the wall stopping the ball is angled towards so it pushes the ball towards the ball return side of the lane where the ball is then either accelerated or lifted and dropped into a flume under the floor that sends the ball to the return which lifts the ball to the return from under the floor
Excellent video. Does the elevator ever stop or will it keep on recycling overflow pins back to the distributor? As the pins pass through the guide wedges, what is the function of that switch mounted above?
First off thank you! As for the elevator, it will continue to run and recycle overflow pins for as long as the bowler continues to bowl. If for instance they stop and take a break, the machine will run for 45 seconds until it "times out" and the mechanisms like the elevator and the distributor will stop running until the next ball is thrown. The switch that you're talking about is a solenoid which determines the direction the shark fin will guide the pin either left or right on the distributor. It runs on a pattern of 2 to 1 so it will send two pins the the right side of the distributor before it sends 1 to the left.
I watched his explanation of what happened, and it still isn't entirely clear - but one thing he did explain was that he was trying to dislodge a pin, "laying on top of the machine" and got his hand caught "with the machine going back and forth," which almost seems to suggest he was trying to dislodge a pin with the sweeper mechanism still operating or perhaps stuck. The only other "back and forth" motion I can imagine is the pinsetter rack going up and down, but it would seem that would be taking his hand and shoulder up and down for the ride, and that could have been an even worse injury.
There's one thing I'm curious about. Why are the sweeps down and the pin deck lights down on every other lane? I've never seen that at any bowling center I've been, although I don't have these pinsetters where I go.
What if a pin is knocked slightly from its standing position but does not fall down, would the setting table have enough clearance space to grab it back up and register it as an unhit pin? (I did see that the holes are quite large but not sure about the claws mechanism)
Yes, when the pins was slightly off spot, it could still pick up but if the pin is way off spot and the table won't pick it up, the table and sweep would go back up to its home position, however deadwood (or the knock down pins) will be left behind on the pindeck and gutters.
I would watch a video on repeat of someone getting a strike, and the pins going through this system. Even if it's the same strike and pin rotation, I'd watch it for HOURS
When the Ball and the Pins fell in the Pit, there are 2 Wheels, the Ball Wheel and the Pinwheel. The Ball Wheel will take the Ball up on the Ball Lift rods and the ball will ride along the track until it exits. The pins will fall into the Pinwheel, the pins will go up into the turn pan, then the cross conveyor and into the turret, all pins will kept index the turret one spot at a time until the 5-Pin (as the Last Pin) comes in the 5-Pin chute in the turret and once that happens, all pins will drop into the Deck Buckets or Deck Chutes and the Deck is ready to set new pins after a Strike or 2nd Ball.
There is a small button that the ball has to push in order for the door to open (54 sec) and let it through into the ball return... Now pins can occasionally get stuck in there but about 95% of the time they cant hit that button so they physically cant open that door.
Unfortunately I have only had the opportunity to work on this specific type of machine. From what I hear with so many businesses upgrading their pinsetters A-2's are very hard to come by now a days.
Yeah Brunswick Pinsetters are built like tanks. I’m part of a community here on TH-cam that we made Mini Bowling Alleys based on Real Life by copying all the equipment, it’s weird that in the Mini Versions of Pinsetters that AMF is a lot complicated to build and all of us in the community are all Brunswick Pinsetter Fans.
What happened if won of the pins shift and it’s still standing but in a different spot and then the pin grabber thing doesn’t grab it in the right spot
Hi bro kindly tell me about the soulation of this problem i am working on gsx Brunswick machines, problem is pins are loaded in table but table is not coming down
this is hella nicer than the old turret and spider Brunswick pinsetters I worked on decades ago. Probably more stable and less 180 calls on this machine.
I came here because I just watched some dude dive head first and get swept in by the sweeper. I was wondering if he would be alive or not. I think we know the answer
As a teenager in the early 90's I worked as pinsetter mechanic on the ol' Brunswick A2. After all these years, just last week I was wondering how pinsetters had evolved and how the newer ones worked compared to the A2. Looks like a lot has changed. Cool video!!
Hello Matt. I'm a 63 year old geezer about to restart my "bowling mechanic" career. I enjoyed your video which completely covers all the functionality of this 14' tall machine..
Very smooth running machines. Everything has to work in harmony, so many parts!
Nicely photographed, edited, explained, and narrated. I worked on Model A's part-time, nearly 45 years ago, before getting into radio and TV work full-time.
Gene Davis thank you very much! If you don't mind me asking what kind of tv work are you involved in? I'm currently making my may into that field so I'm curious about all the different options.
Matt Bowlin -- I do local TV operation in a large market. Technical director, audio engineering, and robotics.
Matt - Trying to figure out how to send you my email address … or Facebook ID … without everybody else seeing it!
Gene Davis I am to, it's like there isn't a direct message option for TH-cam
I know SOME users have a personal message box. I’ve found instructions that say the user must have a “confirmed name”, but I have no idea what that means.
Matt - My very secondary email address is RadioGeno2(at)yahoo(dot)com … I have stopped using it, mostly, so I don’t care how much spam I get there. Once I receive a message from you at that address, I will let you know my real name and email address, okay? Then you can find me on FB.
A moment of silence for that one pin that’s worked there for 30 years and still hasn’t found a station and is just on an endless cycle constantly traveling through the distributor
Right! Horrible design!
Some pinsetters have 20 pins in them so it'll be ready at any time. It's not horrible, it's efficient.
@@godffreyosorio4939 23 pins are needed for most GS-X machines otherwise they get ‘Pin 07’ or ‘Pin 10’ errors.
I just wanted to say I started working for a bowling entertainment center and I found this super useful as starting tech myself! Thank you so much i think i might just watch it a couple more times
Is nobody going to mention the fact that this man’s name is Matt Bowlin and he’s working at a bowling alley😂😂😂
My wife works at a Bowling alley and it's her last name
It’s their destiny they were born to bowl
i did
It was a natural choice.
Imagine if it was nailin. Then we would say he was born to nail.
Spent my two weeks up in Muskegon learning these machines and the associated Vector scoring system, then five years actually working on them til the company shut down. Still got all the error codes memorized. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
I worked on the same machines in the UK when I was in my 20's! Cool Video man, well demonstrated.
Thanks @AndySchofield I appreciate it
This is great! I've been fascinated by bowling and automatic pinsetters ever since I was a kid, and always thought about how cool it would be to find a "tabletop" or miniature version for a home game, but I guess it would be too expensive. It would be a cool project to try and design a small, workable version of a pinsetter.
Great video ! I was a pinsetter mechanic a long time ago as well. The older Brunswick machines were a bit different, but same components. We would mess with people we knew at times by hooking on center pin from above, not allowing it to fall, or setting it back up. The things we do when bored..
POV: You're here after Jared Owen's amazing animation
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Literally the perfect demonstration video. Nice work, man
wow! i can't believe they named this sport after you!
Great video. These machines are much more complicated than I had imagined.
I worked on the A-2 machines when I was about your age. Doubt I could have explained them nearly as well! Great job!
Really should mention the fact that other than the main framework of these machines all the parts are made from plastic. Strong plastic, but still plastic. These machines are amazing. When you truly understand every little interaction that takes place its incredible to watch work
I always wanted to see how pinsetters work, thank you for explaining that and making it possible for me to even know about pinsetters
Great video ! My first bowling job was a pin boy. I would sit on a bench above and behind the pins. Yes. That job came with lots of bruises and a couple of broken fingers. Pay ? $0.50 cents a game. The league bowlers would tip the pin boys very nicely. Normally I would set 2 lanes at a time. Sometimes up to 4 lanes.
This machine looks like a Brunswick GS series pinsetter. They are very rare. About 20 years ago, I bowled in a house in Baltimore that had the first generation of GS machines. They are very smooth, fast and quiet. The house I bowled in had the machines set for double detection; ie after the second ball the setting table comes down to check for standing wood before it is swept away. I understand that the GS machines can also be programed for traditional single detection, like the Brunswick A2 or the AMF 82/70 for use with optical scoring systems. I also know, from TH-cam videos from Brunswick that the GS, series, at least the GSX, has two florescent fixtures, the second one used for black light bowling.
I miss the old Brunswick A2s/Jet Backs and the noise of the pins on the old elevator ring and the circular pin distribution assembly... Damn well foolproof! I also liked the way the old sweepers worked on the old ones as well... A tried and true design that still works at quite a few bowling centers even after 60 years...
Most pinsetters in active use are actually still A2s and AMF 82-70s
Thank you for making this. I was looking for a well-explained demonstration of the automated pin setter and it seems I've found it
Hurricoaster thank you! Much appreciated.
No problem! As a design project I'm planning on making a small-scale (miniature) pin setter, so I'm going to be studying this video lol
Hurricoaster that's awesome if you google Brunswick GSX pinsetter and look for a PDF manual there should be some good schematic views of the machine that might be able to help with any visuals that were not covered in the video.
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Mechanic from New York here, been on a2s for 9 years now, I thought a2s were complicated but after this video a2s look like a piece of cake 👍
Phenomenal video. I’ve been waiting all my life to see this.
Left this video understanding a lot about pinsetters and wondering why my bowling alley hasn’t upgraded to new ones and still uses 80’s pinsetters LOL
Can you do a vid showing details of the pin elevator a little more. Really interested to see how the shovels tip at pin release and go into position to lift a pin at base of elevator. Haven't seen any good videos where this is detailed.
Best explanation I have seen of a 10-pin setter
I honestly miss working at my old bowling alley, not for the company themselves. I was at a bowling alley with these Brunswick GSX machines, I was there for 6 years, and I was the head mechanic for about 4 years after the previous head mechanic resigned. I left the place because the company was absolutely horrible and I can’t even start with the list, for example, I never was able to request off, I was ALWAYS on call, and even still had to stop in on my days off to make sure that machines were running and the other mechanics weren’t just simply NOT fixing them. But I wasn’t ONLY just the backend mechanic, I was also in charge of building maintenance like the bathrooms, lighting fixtures, tables and chairs, lazer rag, mini golf the HORRIBLE batting cages. I was the absolute best employee and always putting work first, it stressed me out so much that I started losing my hair at age of 22. Literally I was the only one that cared about the place so passionately, and I still do. I was going there ever since the place first opened. Then I finally started working there and my love for bowling just increased since. So I’m happy that Bowlero bought it out and ACTUaLLY renovated it and is doing amazing shit. I’m actually upset that I didn’t stick around just for another 1 1/2 years til they bought it, I would have been so estactic and happy. But I also have to include what added to the stress was me working a 2nd job and college classes full time, was doing that for 2 years at that point then I picked up a 3rd job doing hurricane shutter installations and that brought me up to working 105 hour work weeks and college classes, only did that for a whole year and then I got burnt out and eventually went to only working at the bowling alley and picking up shifts at the gas station like once or twice a month if I needed extra cash, and helping out when in the area. Shit for me to even get what they considered vacation time was working off the clock so they basically owed me those hours just so I can go on a vacation and yet out of those 6 years I only ever took a voluntary vacation of 4 days and that was like prying teeth. I had 2 motorcycle accidents within a year of each other and both accidents I was out of work for 4 months each. There were only 2-3 people I ACTUALLY and GENUINELY loved working with. One of them was a woman that was there basically since the start of the business and then when the company sold off and our GM stepped out with resignation she took over as GM. Truely the meaning of working up the ladder, but then when there was no more corporate, our district corporate guy came in saying that he wasn’t going to take her spot or anything of that sort and he did the exact opposite. Never took my advice on anything, suggestions, especially when he hired a assistant general manager that had NO, and I mean absolutely NO FUCKING clue about this area of activity. This kid literally walked in to shut our power off and give us notice because our company wasn’t paying the bills for months. I can guarantee you that shit would have been a lot better if I was at least promoted to assistant GM under that woman who I explained about. And then there was the 2nd person, he was the arcade manager and traveling arcade manager, dude was an absolute gem. He started showing me how to do arcade stuff like fixing the games, organizing the prizes, shit I helped bring in all the new games, helped assemble them even the big ass ones like connect 4, the BIG free throw game, Monster Drop, etc. literally I did EVERYONE’s job. Yes it wasn’t in my job description and I didn’t have to do it, but I did it because I loved the place. If I could work with those same people again, I would. It used to be all fine and dandy the first 2 years I worked there. Literally all of us employees were friends outside of work BEFORE I started working there. The 2 I spoke about literally watched me grow up from like 14 years old til I was 25. Shit was insane. Whenever I move tot exams I might try to apply to get back into another bowling alley. I would not but right now I’m working at a car dealership and making more money and learning a lot more shit than what these other companies would possibly pay me. But there’s just something genuine about solving a "ghost" problem or just a problematic machine like this, they are hard as hell at first but give it a few months of fixing things here and there, then you start to REALLY understand it all. But there are definitely a lot of things that are easier with a 2nd person, we techs never had that option. The only time there were 2 mechanics it was when shifts over lapped like either one person came in early or whoever opened stayed an extra hour or so, which was me 99% of the time both ways.
Rule to the story, don’t sell yourself short. If you’re passionate about something don’t give up but don’t let your mental, physical and relationship health suffer because of a job. Don’t. Keep work at work and home stuff at home. I made the mistake of always bringing work home like pin holders, multiples at once, rollers, ball doors, actuators etc, fix me at home then bring them back the next day. The stress I brought home every day, there were days upon days or and even weeks that When I rode my motorcycle to work that I hoped someone would pull out in front of me and end it right then and there, but I’m glad it didn’t. I’m glad nothing of that sort ever happened. Well that ended up killing me, my first accident was someone failed to yield a left turn but I just got ejected over the car, and a couple cuts and bruises. But like i said don’t ever let a job beat you up like I let this beat me up. No matter how much you love the shit. Your own well being is more important,
I used to work on Brunswick A2's. Great pinsetters. These are pretty cool too!!
Does this apply to Wii Bowling?
Yes
yes it does. all those complex pulleys an gears and whatnot, are all crammed into a Nintendo Wii.
the ball teleports through objects secretly and back in your hand
It’s on a different pinsetter. The Wii Sports Bowling Pinsetter is based on the Brunswick A2 Pinsetter.
The balls and pins are uploaded to Nintendo's servers, where a digital version of this machine processes them and sends them back.
I work on these machines and this video is really helpful on explaining to people on what I work on.
Lee J thank you, I appreciate it!
Matt Bowlin not to be a dick or owt but why in one scene are your pin socks missing?
Lee J I took them off for filming purposes
A very well done video. I really enjoyed it. Thanks for uploading.
Only one comment on your name, I thought the comment section would be full of it!
Great vid though, have always wondered
Thats a nice shiney new machine ya got there!! Keep in mind there are setters out there still working had after 60 or so YEARS!! Some old skool tech out there still cranking away!
Are there 2 sets of pins per lane. I’m talking about the ones that are on the lane, ready to be knocked over and the ones on that elevator ready to be lowered for a new player.
Came here After Jared Owen's video on pinsetter
Same.
4:13am and just came from Matt Rittman's video about how a bowling alley works, my quest for bowling enlightenment continues
Compared to the Brunswick A1 that I work on this machine looks so much simpler. Good vid bro!
Really nice! Reminds me of the Brunswick Training Programs. Do more like this please! :D
Yep that looks awfully like the gsx pinsetters we have. Love it when a e76 comes through with a pin getting jammed in the rotating pin holder on the setting table. X3
Great video!! I like the angles you recorded! :D
Thank you!
worked on a ally of amf machines in the early 60's .fun job but you had to be careful of flying pins. they are heavy and hurt, i could change out parts , switches , but the big stuff we left to the local amf repairman, sweep and oiled the lanes and played a few free games , good job.
One of the most detailed oporation
very good
And i guessing that is gs.x
But my bowling centre use a photo to score didnt use the plate
Thank you, and yes it is a gs.x! Such a smooth machine.
Matt Bowlin wow good job still no dislike !
What a cruel world we live in those pins did nothing to you man.
Think this is bad? You should see what happens behind a DUCKPIN alley!
Very nice video and fun to watch. Have a nice day.
Now go look at an AMF 82-30, one of the first automatic bowling machines. I worked on them for years.
Been bowling almost 30 years and I still don’t understand where my ball goes lol
TraumaER same xd
It was literaly the second thing he covered...
The wall at the back of the lane you can see catches the ball because it is too short for the ball to go under the pins however slip right under and the floor behind the end of the lane in the pit moves away from the bowler the wall stopping the ball is angled towards so it pushes the ball towards the ball return side of the lane where the ball is then either accelerated or lifted and dropped into a flume under the floor that sends the ball to the return which lifts the ball to the return from under the floor
This is a Brunswick Pinsetter. AMF machines are much different. 🤷🏽♂️
There are many of Pinsetter videos out there. Watch any of them how your balls came back.
I'm building one out of lego bricks right now and this really helps!
Is it possible for a bowling ball to end up on the pin conveyor or vice versa?
Excellent video. Does the elevator ever stop or will it keep on recycling overflow pins back to the distributor? As the pins pass through the guide wedges, what is the function of that switch mounted above?
First off thank you! As for the elevator, it will continue to run and recycle overflow pins for as long as the bowler continues to bowl. If for instance they stop and take a break, the machine will run for 45 seconds until it "times out" and the mechanisms like the elevator and the distributor will stop running until the next ball is thrown. The switch that you're talking about is a solenoid which determines the direction the shark fin will guide the pin either left or right on the distributor. It runs on a pattern of 2 to 1 so it will send two pins the the right side of the distributor before it sends 1 to the left.
Thanks for your quick reply. Much appreciated.
I used to work in a bowling alley that had a pin "wheel" system that moved the pins to the distributor.
you learn something new every day
Thanks I needed to make a mini replica for my mini lanes, the a2 mini pinsetter I have works 60% of the time haha
I’m here trying to figure out what happened to Buddy from Cake Boss
Same 🧐
I watched his explanation of what happened, and it still isn't entirely clear - but one thing he did explain was that he was trying to dislodge a pin, "laying on top of the machine" and got his hand caught "with the machine going back and forth," which almost seems to suggest he was trying to dislodge a pin with the sweeper mechanism still operating or perhaps stuck. The only other "back and forth" motion I can imagine is the pinsetter rack going up and down, but it would seem that would be taking his hand and shoulder up and down for the ride, and that could have been an even worse injury.
So do I, i’m here trying to figure out what happened to Buddy from Cake Boss
I believe it was on a different machine. Check out the A2 by brunswick (someone correct me if that wasn't it). They're built much differently
Was an A2 or possibly an even older JetBack
I have to admit, this is pretty cool 😎 I think it’s cooler then the machines with the wheel
When the distributor is full, does the pin elevator stop ?
do you know why the table wont put the pins down? i have an isue with my machine, it would be great if you can help me
That was a very interesting video. Thanks!
There's one thing I'm curious about. Why are the sweeps down and the pin deck lights down on every other lane? I've never seen that at any bowling center I've been, although I don't have these pinsetters where I go.
You should maybe talk about the "Sweep Release" Component!
That is an essential component to make the sweep fall down so quickly!
Nice job Matt!
Mark Lemieux thank you! I appreciate it!
I just hopped on your bowling bus nice video
What keeps the ball and pins separate? meaning what keeps the pin from falling in the ball shoot... and the ball from going to the pin elevator?
I've been wondering this for about 25 years.
Jared owen's + matt bowlin = perfect 👍👍
Is there still a demand for technicians?
Wow, this is new age stuff. In Wisconsin we have the A2 setters from the 60’s
Thanks for sharing, great video
What if a pin is knocked slightly from its standing position but does not fall down, would the setting table have enough clearance space to grab it back up and register it as an unhit pin? (I did see that the holes are quite large but not sure about the claws mechanism)
Yes, when the pins was slightly off spot, it could still pick up but if the pin is way off spot and the table won't pick it up, the table and sweep would go back up to its home position, however deadwood (or the knock down pins) will be left behind on the pindeck and gutters.
Usually the ball return tunnel runs downward lower than the level of the lane so use gravity for more speed.
I would watch a video on repeat of someone getting a strike, and the pins going through this system. Even if it's the same strike and pin rotation, I'd watch it for HOURS
3:11 ah, yes. My favourite JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure character:
Great video very informative
How does the Brunswick A-2 Pinsetter work?
When the Ball and the Pins fell in the Pit, there are 2 Wheels, the Ball Wheel and the Pinwheel. The Ball Wheel will take the Ball up on the Ball Lift rods and the ball will ride along the track until it exits. The pins will fall into the Pinwheel, the pins will go up into the turn pan, then the cross conveyor and into the turret, all pins will kept index the turret one spot at a time until the 5-Pin (as the Last Pin) comes in the 5-Pin chute in the turret and once that happens, all pins will drop into the Deck Buckets or Deck Chutes and the Deck is ready to set new pins after a Strike or 2nd Ball.
Where is this bowling center located?
Nice video what’s the name of this song
BSU...are u at emerald lanes?
I was working with same machines for one year. Machnines on video are sooo clean and good condition xDDDDD
Fascinating! Just proves that micro switches are our friends!! ;)
QUESTION: I see how the ball is blocked by a wall that only the pins can go under, but what stops the pins from going to where the ball goes?
There is a small button that the ball has to push in order for the door to open (54 sec) and let it through into the ball return... Now pins can occasionally get stuck in there but about 95% of the time they cant hit that button so they physically cant open that door.
Do a video about the A-2 pinsetter and all types of pinsetters.
Unfortunately I have only had the opportunity to work on this specific type of machine. From what I hear with so many businesses upgrading their pinsetters A-2's are very hard to come by now a days.
Naw...A-2s and 82/70s are all over the place. I even know of some 82/30s still in service. Good video!!
@@andyleibrook6012 I haven't run across any 82-30s lately but most centers are still using 82-70s or maybe an early 82-90
Sweet now I know how it works been awhile since I have seen it done.
I love the GSX Pinsetter do more videos about it :D
What would happend if someone falls there ?
geez the brunswick pinsetters are a completely different beast to the AMF ones I am used to, AMF ones seem to be less complicated
Can you make some vid''s of you working on the AMF?
Yeah Brunswick Pinsetters are built like tanks. I’m part of a community here on TH-cam that we made Mini Bowling Alleys based on Real Life by copying all the equipment, it’s weird that in the Mini Versions of Pinsetters that AMF is a lot complicated to build and all of us in the community are all Brunswick Pinsetter Fans.
Nice video!
Very nicely done! Thanks!
Alan Lane Thank you! I appreciate it!
very nice video!!! more please ;)
Thank you, much appreciated!
Any reason why your center has coast past A enabled?
Im pretty sure Jared Owen saw this for his last video
What model pinsetter is this?
I was a pinsetter mechanic at 22 but the machines i worked with were very different. (Brunswick A1 & A2's)
Brunswick GSX Pinsetters
What happened if won of the pins shift and it’s still standing but in a different spot and then the pin grabber thing doesn’t grab it in the right spot
Usually it knocks the pin over and an employee has to set the pin manually.
Great video and great name go Broncos I also live outside of boise
Hi bro kindly tell me about the soulation of this problem i am working on gsx Brunswick machines, problem is pins are loaded in table but table is not coming down
Well after seeing this awesome video, I think we should "strike" that like button!
this is hella nicer than the old turret and spider Brunswick pinsetters I worked on decades ago. Probably more stable and less 180 calls on this machine.
brunswick bowling machine and 92 code meaninghow do i fix that
In Tucson Arizona we Bowl with Out dated Brunswick A2s! Never seen a GSX Here!
I came here because I just watched some dude dive head first and get swept in by the sweeper. I was wondering if he would be alive or not. I think we know the answer
machines look brand new ... great video (few mistakes)
many thx for the informative video