How a Candlepin Bowling Pinsetter Works

This video goes through brief descriptions about how a candlepin bowling pinsetter works. Candlepin is a popular form of bowling mainly found in New England and Canada. These bowling machines are many decades old and are no longer made, but they are super fun to watch in action! I hope you enjoy!

[@PinoyBowlerGS92]

No matter if its Tenpin, Candlepin or Duckpin, watching a Free Fall Pinsetter in action never gets old. They're more fascinating to watch than Garbage Strings pulling pins up and down and I love the challenge of fixing them than wasting time behind a bunch of Strings.

[@DanTheDrumMan]

I love candlepin machines, and I totally agree, string machines are terrible. I don't have any experience with them since they're only tenpin and they don't make candlepin stuff anymore, but I definitely prefer the mechanics of how this machine works over string machines!

[@TheDragonRider6422]

Same. We have stringsetters here at work and the amount of issue we get with them is alot.

[@user-th6qx3mr8t]

سنحثك😅😂

[@billbird2969]

Looks like some nice new fresh Garland pins!!!!

[@Ebinsugewa]

Timber is one of the nicest houses around!

[@andyward8062]

Bowl-Mor machine. Was built by the Otis Elevator company.

[@LongtowerNyc]

Thanks for sharing

[@ShaferProductions]

2:47 Bowling Alley Screens when you get a Strike

[@steveperry1344]

it is interesting and i've bowled in leagues for 50 years. what is the distance between the pins and the pin plate is like a seperate piece of steel plate? thnx for the tour.

[@Ebinsugewa]

Pins are 1 foot apart. Older houses typically have steel decks, yes. Some were phenolic as well, but those have mostly been replaced by now. Houses are starting to use synthetic tenpin decks as they modernize.

[@steveperry1344]

i bowl at acton bowladrome and the entire lanes are synthetic including the pin deck all the way from the approach to the pit. they also eliminated the lob line. @@Ebinsugewa

[@mcmike89]

The process for candlepins is the same like regular bowling pins in 10-ten bowling.

[@theDragoon007yaboiCJ]

a little different because in regular 10 pin the machine comes down as soon as the ball is detected passing

[@Greggys10Pins]

2:48 at least it's safer to do that rather than doing it on a 10-pin machine, especially those older Brunswick's. Are the pins still wood or a different material?

[@DanTheDrumMan]

The pins are plastic, we actually just got a whole new batch of them

[@Greggys10Pins]

@@DanTheDrumMan Thanks for the info. I would love to try candlepin sometime, but I know I'm putting a ball through the masking unit at some point due to 10-pin muscle memory.

[@PinoyBowlerGS92]

Its still dangerous no matter what. Imagine putting both of your hands on the turntable as it spins around

[@fredh.1255]

I immediately recognized this place as I worked there for over 25 years and helped John Topoli install the pinsetters on lanes 17 to 24 back in 1975. Great memories of Timber Lanes.👍😁

[@Ebinsugewa]

They are fully plastic. The body is hollow and has a cap pressed into each end.