Who knows the song in the bowling alley (what is the song name?)

There are not enough pins in the A-2 pinsetter. That is why the strike cycle is slow.

Both the AMF 82/30 and the Brunswick A are good machines. I do understand the issues of the underfloor returns. They can be a hassle unless they are maintained correctly to reduce the chance of stuck balls.

You need a new ball!

Get ready for a change! We’re switching from free-fall pinsetters to string pinsetters to cut costs and make our bowling lanes better than ever!

I can understand from a cost and profit perspective as to why the owners possibly ditched the 96 in favour of stringpin. Its a wise business choice that only anyone operating in the industry can truly appreciate. Its tough out there! Mechanic of 20 years here, both on GS-10-GSX, managed them all, seen it all. But they can be quite a pain to keep running especially as many parts are obsolete and require additional resourcing and the costs required to get said parts. And getting the mechanics in to keep them running. Electricals are another issue - our gamesetter and HV boxes won't last forever and require a fair bit of work to rework if they end up frying. It takes time as brunswick doesnt offer repairs on older GS model electricals anymore, so us older centres have to take this up.

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OMG. You caused it to stop with your garbage throw creating an out of range !!!

Word went out yesterday that it will not be rebuilt.

Well RIP to this bowling center. Good luck staying in business cause all of your usual customers are leaving for centers with free fall.

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arcade game - is this the dumbing down of real bowling?

Nice renovation except for the strings. I'll hang up my 52 years of bowling if these take over.

Lazy techs not doing their job. Part of their work is cleaning the pin decks properly and that doesn't appear to have been done here. They need to be given a warning and if it continues, sacking.

Bruh

Not yet the 8 pin is missing

I understand businesses not wanting to keep these machines going as the recent service parts catalog updates is putting a lot of the old hardware as N/A - sourcing the parts is harder and more costly as a result. My own centre is surviving on parts from a closed down centre near us, and a lot of assembly/frame parts we don't have, we build from scrap metal sheeting.

Anyone notice the cushion ?

Stringpins are total rubbish. Any "center" that has them is no longer a proper bowling center in my opinion - just an amusement arcade.

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Damn Twisters will rip up a machine good.

Our local alley has 14 lanes with Gsx machines and the twister 🌀 plastic pins, when your bowling by yourself and the place is completely empty, you can hear the machine cycling away, loading pins, hearing the 8 pins drop into the setting table (the 2 corners load first) the noisy sweep assembly and the ball returning back 😊

Seeing mixed pins in a machine and you know there is going to be mechanical issues. In a sanction league or tournament that is illegal. This house most likely doesn’t have much league play therefore very little up keep on the machines.

ふふ

For being 50+ year old machines, they appear to well-maintained and running smoothly. I see they have newer electronics on them to interface with the auto-scoring system. Good mechanics for these older machines are becoming scarce.

They are just beautiful machines - to both work on and to watch. Got heaps of footage of my own GS96's as well as footage of converted GS10's.

Those masking units look like my center. It’s the Ashwaubenon Bowling Alley located in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Ball indicator lights not working.

Fine for open bowlers who care more about their $15 drink and $25 quesadillas. Or a kids birthday party. This should never be a thing in sanctioned leagues! I know 5-pin and duckpin use strings in most of their houses but I'm not a fan of it for those variants either!

The only thing missing is the 82/70 sign attached to the front of the pinsetter table. And it's really cool that the center kept the sweeps with the original bars. There was an AMF stand-alone center here in Vegas years ago that had this same equipment and Magic Triangle masking units (except in green). I remember that after a ball was rolled and the sweep came down, the table would "idle" a few seconds to give any wobbly or messenger pins a chance to fall. I also remember that as soon as the table returned standing pins back to the deck (spare and full rack), the sweep would instantly go up, leaving the table exposed briefly. Weird the things you remember as a kid.....

That's wild, PinDom went to a 60 lane center in Green Bay with the same setters & maskings, same color and everything. The midwest rocks for vintage bowling.

I really love old bowling equipment, no shortcuts taken, pure quality.

Beautiful house! I've wanted to visit, but it's so far. Nice bowling!

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The pinsetter treated it as an out of range. Just clear your dead wood.

Its not good for the A2 to run on high speeds like this all the time

Table looks like it's a whole tooth out on the right and off-level, probably why the 10-pin wound up with 2 pins instead of one. Really miss working on these things.

Cool video! I honestly thought their string-pinsetters were decent, but the whole conversion was still such a downgrade. I remember the first time I bowled there (before string-pins was approved), I was talking with one of the employees. They were thinking about converting to GS-X or the GS-Nxt. I kinda wish they followed through with that.

From what it looks like it seems that the A2 has a faster speed than the AMF 82-30

took a good alley and ruined it.

Free fall will always be better and original in my opinion.

String pins are a deal breaker for me. I wont bowl at a center that uses them.

I am a technician of 24 gsx lane house The 17 years old are And I do a lot of work that we don’t get string machines Better to repair the machine with spare parts instead of switching to string pinsetter And as a league bowler, String Pin is no longer a real bowling

Makes me want to puke.

String pins are such a downgrade. Im a technician at our local bowling alley. They were going to go to string pins but im stoked recently to hear they are not now. I feel string pins take away from the bowling experience

I was just at Twisted Pin since the conversion for the first time last Tuesday. It’s a real shame they got rid of the GS-96 Machines for the strings. I had never bowled on strings until I went here, and it was such a downgrade from free fall. Nice Video!

If u hit 399 subs I’ll sub

Keren

Not sure why they go full "arcade mode" with all the motion screens and disco lights - very distracting is an understatement for any serious bowler.

Is this mike aulbys bowling center