Amazing detector - The brain of the Brunswick Automatic Pinsetter

This video shows how the Brunswick Pinsetter knows when you strike or leave the pin up so you can respot it for second ball. Or if a pin slides over out of range, you can’t pick it up and respot it the normal way because it’s out of range. It’s an amazing invention for back in the 50s that someone came up with all this put it together and made it work and it still works to this day with no end in sight or computers to run it. Leave me a comment, share them, LIKE them and let me know what you think please ! / garagebowlingalley

[@boeingpilot7002]

Thanks for all of the detailed videos about the different aspects of A2 operation. I am in awe that Brunswick engineers were able to design such an intricate pinsetter system in the early 1960s, WITHOUT COMPUTERS OR CAD, just by using slide-rules for calculation and paper, pencil, and straight-edged rulers for drawing! It is a true tribute to human ingenuity.

[@AH-rc4mr]

Thank you so much for the training videos of different operations of the Brunswick pinsetter. I used to work at a bowling center and I climbed around in the A2 Brunswick pinsetters.

[@sevencorsa]

Good job Robert, I like your channel. Keep them coming. People back in the 50's were much smarter than the people today in my opinion.

[@Pyry300]

A brunswick a pinsetter would be a really nice project for me and my dad.

[@wmclark54]

I was a pinsetter mechanic for over 25 years retired from a bowling center after 42 years.. nice

[@KCGeno]

Nice!!! I would very seriously recommend, though, that you never reach into the deck area, for any reason, without first shutting the machine down. One false move and that pinsetter can do you serious harm.

[@t.c.bowling1934]

Nice explanation ✨

[@AH-rc4mr]

Hope you and Aron will try the team bowling it is fun. Thanks for the videos you have shared so far. Very interesting and educating!

[@mike29430]

So cool. I would love it if it were possible to 3D print this machine as a tabletop model.

[@ThinkCleverAndSmart]

That's really cool! Now I wonder, do you have the training tape for the A2? I've been searching everywhere but can't find it, and you seem like someone who might have it :)

[@riversarcadereview385]

nice...the only thing you didn't describe is how the detector works at 270 degrees. it is at 270 that determines whether the machine goes into second ball or remains at first ball. if the deck is either at standing pins height or locked on the deck holding hook at 270, the machine changes to second ball but when the deck is at 1 inch (setting pins) it will remain in first ball...no matter what, the machine changes back to first ball at 180.

[@AH-rc4mr]

Your welcome. Hope you enjoy team bowling!

[@toddament8035]

I worked a 34 lane center and we knew which lanes that the out-of-range lever didn't properly function and would just sweep and set 10 new pins. Open play was not a issue but the league bowlers were picky.

[@midmitvguy]

Really cool, but what tells it there is a pin in a position vs the deck going all the way down even though a pin is present in lets say the 3 position.

[@daphneblake7889]

How are standing pins (after 1st ball) detected if not out of range ?

[@bmhedgehog2]

hate to be a problem, but are you going to pop out that dent in the deck shield?

[@francilzoilo3189]

Sir pls tell me how to adjust sweeper

[@Hawqis1]

How would a foul cycle work, if there is one?