Brunswick GS X Pinsetter

[@mcthe2handedbowler392]

I love how you can do certain spares on these machines easily Huge Advantage!😀

[@jasonsmith3537]

Lol, I work on them. No sensors anywhere on the machine... Closest thing you get are the magnetic switches on the switch cluster cam. Pin detection is a plate on the back of the pin holder that touches a pin and presses it into a switch... Still solenoids, belts, and switches. It's all about timing and adjustments like the rest. Not gonna lie..... The number 1 flaw are pins in the ball accelerator.. Frames per stop are considerably less than the A2....Mainly because of all the distributor parts. Green belts stretch or saturate with oil....even with daily cleaning...meaning the pins slip on the belt. The corners sometimes allow pins to back up... Shark adjustments are constant... We get more EL calls and 04 etc calls due to backups on the dist. Even after replacing all the belts and getting everything adjusted just right.... We are struggling to make 1200fps on 9yr old setters.

[@heavyq]

1200 FPS? Daaaamn. I was getting that on A2s at the college I was the head mechanic at just doing basic daily and weekly maintenance. Something isn't right with your machines :/

[@zeroapostle4ever9]

I have been looking for this video for a long time!

[@PinoyBowlerGS92]

Same, I’ve been watched this back in 2013.

[@elijahrosado3816]

I didn't know the Brunswick GS-X came out in the 1990's!

[@PinoyBowlerGS92]

It did. All GS Models came out in the 90’s except for the GS-10 in 1989.

[@paulgratzke3616]

1986 believe it or not

[@PinoyBowlerGS92]

@@paulgratzke3616. Or 1985

[@exoticcar5482]

No, I believe the model gs x came out in 2000

[@exoticcar5482]

@@paulgratzke3616 That was the earliest GS pinsetter but not the GS X

[@aydengianes2515]

Are brunswick A2 pinsetters still in production.

[@lylebarnard7447]

No they stopped making them in1985

[@SmokeyGoodness]

Not in production, but still in demand.

[@danfreiberger5137]

Pin detector sensing plate ... hmmm. Same thing we originally used, but for pindication, long before automatic scorers and scanners showed up! While still working in the industry, I kept asking management why are we using scanners instead of pin sensing plates to run the scoring. I have never dealt with an AS-80 scanner that never gave me any issues. Back to basics ... pin sensing plates!

[@lylebarnard7447]

Gsx machines can't hold up against the A-2 longevity gsx 25 years? A-2 65+ years .Which would you choose

[@t-dawg1161]

A2

[@GiantSquid2319]

Is this a commercial from 2005?

[@legozelda2090]

It's not 100% accurate pin count because it cannot read out of range pins. The AMF sonar pin detection system could accurately score out of range pins and in black lights. However, even AMF's sonar was not 100% accurate.

[@RockStar85674]

"Smart"? I can't sure with it, bcs its a HUGE MONSTER🤣

[@thevalleyy]

Interestng how these old advertisements are all about revenue

[@ikonix360]

Too bad the way the machine counts the pins left standing on the second ball adds about 5 seconds to the cycle time.

[@PinoyBowlerGS92]

Hey at least it doesn’t take up a minute

[@riversarcadereview385]

it can be set to use a camera or a standalone without the double detect

[@PinoyBowlerGS92]

@@riversarcadereview385 But in some cases that camera scorings are inaccurate, you got to have those type of scoring cameras from Japan where they mount those near the pindeck light.

[@riversarcadereview385]

@@PinoyBowlerGS92 - i thought they stopped using those about 35 years ago

[@riversarcadereview385]

the REAL time wasted is by bowlers waiting for the entire approach to be empty before lining up their shots and not the second detect

[@f62darkstar]

I'd take an A2 or AMF 82/70 over this tinker toy piece of junk any day.

[@Daniel-wj6rv]

idk man, as a bowler, that my-shot / independent pin setting is really nice

[@ThinkCleverAndSmart]

@@Daniel-wj6rv And no more pins flying out into the gutters all the time

[@PinoyBowlerGS92]

@@Daniel-wj6rv. Also if you’re lucky that the Ball Return has a Set Button (not Reset Button), you can recover your shot the fastest way without waiting on a lazy ass mechanic to manually set your pins back up. Let’s say you left a 2-5 and the GSX Table accidentally drops the 5 Pin, you can just push the Set Button, the Sweep comes down and swept the incorrect set and sets you up a new fresh set of the 2-5. Also the GSX are continuing to spread, so you’ll find those pinsetters near by easily.

[@PinoyBowlerGS92]

At least the A2 and GSX were fun to recreate into a Mini Form. AMF’s are trash cause they’re too complicated to recreate.

[@f62darkstar]

@@PinoyBowlerGS92 what ever dude...I let this go a long time ago

[@riversarcadereview385]

they left out the GS-10

[@PinoyBowlerGS92]

and the GS-92 as well

[@riversarcadereview385]

@@PinoyBowlerGS92 - don't know how i missed that. It looks like they showed a GS-92 judging by the bar over the sweep board

[@PinoyBowlerGS92]

@@riversarcadereview385 Actually the GS-96 uses that same type of Sweep design from both GS-10 & GS-92. I can tell it is a GS-96 because it doesn't have the GS-92 labels on both sides of the sweep, it only has that Brunswick logo in the middle.

[@riversarcadereview385]

@@PinoyBowlerGS92 - Thanks for the info. I only worked on the GS-10s in the late 80s before returning to A2s

[@PinoyBowlerGS92]

​​​@@riversarcadereview385 No problem. I used to bowl on GS-92's at a mall when I first got into Bowling at 9 Years old in 2011 and I love and miss bowling on them when that place burned down in 2017. I was heartbroken from that to see it gone because I felt betrayed when my current local mall Bowling Center first opened in 2013, I bowled there more because they had 82-90XL Pinspotters while the GS-92's on the other hand are falling apart but it was only in 2017 (months before those GS-92's were burned) when I start seeing signs of AMF Pinspotter breakdowns and I eventually realized these are worse than the GS-92's.

[@jalilmuhammad8270]

It's a shame that Brunswick doesn't make mechanical monsters like this anymore, since it quit the bowling business 6 years back.

[@brunswickbowlingproducts]

Hi Jalil! We are still in the bowling business and have never turned our back from the bowling community.

[@zeroapostle4ever9]

@@brunswickbowlingproducts I enjoy the soundtrack in the video

[@charlies302]

I’ve seen videos of a GS-NXT circulating around KZbin recently, like a few installed in Michigan at a facility.

[@ThinkCleverAndSmart]

@@charlies302 There's a few centers around the world with them operating. We have one in Sweden for example

[@PinoyBowlerGS92]

There are still A2’s mostly in America but here in the Philippines there’s only probably 4 or 5 of these Brunswick A’s, A2’s and Jetbacks since some of these rest are Brunswick GS but I’m disappointed that most centers in this country are AMF because our Legendary Filipino Bowler (Paeng Nepomuceno) was part of the AMF Staff before and created the AMF-Puyat (a Franchise Bowling Business like Bowlero), I’m not saying AMF is bad, of course it’s great but it’s just I love Brunswick from the heart and I don’t care if AMF is simplistic but Brunswick is more on less irritating because it prevents from damage parts which was the prone on AMF like the Distributor Arm which causes Pin Jams and the Belt or the entire machine should stop running just like what the A2’s did when the cross conveyor was overloaded of pins, the pinwheel will stop but no AMF just keeps the trouble going like they don’t care.

[@kodymayo3573]

🤣 we have 2 facilities. One with A2s the other with gs-x. The A2s are so much better.

[@thefriendlyteenager726]

Why?

[@PinoyBowlerGS92]

@@thefriendlyteenager726 Reliability is why but there are a few things worth about GSX Pinsetter is they still let pins fly freely, not like those String Craps that hangs pins for suicide. And also the GSX is the best Pinsetter for training your spare shooting since it could set any pin set ups you want automatically incase you’re like me that I don’t like practicing spare shooting on other pinsetters that needed a mechanic to set them manually.

[@thefriendlyteenager726]

@@PinoyBowlerGS92 I know all that but I was asking the guy what advantages the A2’s have over the GS Series

[@PinoyBowlerGS92]

@@thefriendlyteenager726 Oh ok but like I said that the A2 has the advantage of reliability

[@thefriendlyteenager726]

@@PinoyBowlerGS92 not at my home center but understandable but I thought that the GSX was a pretty reliable machine too?