The Unicorn of Pinsetters! Mendes Magnet 2001 Machine

[@ronaldbrown8792]

I have been working on bowling machines since December 1970. Mostly AMF 30 and 70 and now 90's. Brunswick A2 for a short time. I want to travel and visit centers with duckpin and candlepin machines. This is a machine I want to see in action.

[@nicholaslloyd5623]

I am full time on 12 duckpin machines! Come to maryland and say hi!

[@ronaldbrown8792]

I will add it to my Bucket List.@@nicholaslloyd5623

[@BITRATE_MODE]

What a fast machine!!! Worked on a2s, 82-70s, 82-90s, gs-x and this is one of the fastest distributor systems i've seen

[@nicholaslloyd5623]

It's a very fast machine except on a double strike, or a strike when it's running short pins. In those cases, it's even slower Than an a speed brunswick machine waiting at 180!

[@PinoyBowlerGS92]

​@@nicholaslloyd5623 I bet these pinsetters would require 30 Pins to run to compensate with multiple strikes

[@LongtowerNyc]

Reminds me of the coat rack machine at the dry cleaners

[@PinoyBowlerGS92]

This Pinsetter is absolutely insane. It sucks that its reliability isn't good and it couldn't detect an Out of Range at all.

[@therandomytchannel4318]

I'm happy with my 14 lane bowling alley with gsx setters and twister pins 😊

[@giggs-chan2004]

I find this machine “Attractive”. Get it?

[@MadDogHoek23]

So cool! But I can only imagine the problems you run into, and pain in the ass it is to fix.

[@billbird2969]

@garagebowlingalley you guys ever one of these?

[@lockedonlaw]

Electrical problems are more difficult and more expensive to repair than mechanical problems. Almost nothing electrical can be repaired during a league or a tournament.

[@keithchrysler3732]

Neat concept however there's an awful lot of moving parts and wear points. I'd be concerned about high maintenance costs and problems a few years down the road.

[@mikefitzpatrick1213]

I thought that as well. I did light pin jumping in a Brunswick house years ago and those had lots going on. These are crazy!

[@nicholaslloyd5623]

A lot of tiny metal parts with multiple wear points. The distributor, while cool, seems like a long term maintenance nightmare

[@BowlingGeek101]

An A2 Never keeps a bower waiting but this one keeps a bowler waiting

[@nicholaslloyd5623]

An a2 never Waits at 180? Lol

[@travy268]

It can actually stop at 180 when the deck is empty and waiting for pins to drop into the buckets. It can stop for many reasons such as pin gate failure, turret spoons not releasing, pin jam in turn pan or pin wiper, pit board stop moving, belts fell off or there isn’t enough pins to keep it running when it should

[@ProdigyBowlersTour]

Wish you'd show it from the front (bowler's perspective).

[@nicholaslloyd5623]

I'll be back there in March! Shot a 257 right before filming this, the pin carry was phenomenal- I'll bowl a whole game and record it from the front

[@PinoyBowlerGS92]

Here's a video from Wildfire Lanes: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWbdZICPqc2XeJIsi=2euIKiTWqQHNN3_c They used have these pinsetters until 2014 when they switched out for GS-X Pinsetters

[@OfficialGH98]

​@@PinoyBowlerGS92Today, Wildfire Lanes now uses the Brunswick GS-X pinsetters. I don't know why they changed the machines from the Mendes MM-2001 to the Brunswick GS-X.

[@PinoyBowlerGS92]

@@OfficialGH98 The reason why Wildfire Lanes switched to GS-X is because these magnetic pinsetters are unreliable and because only very few centers had them, finding parts is near impossible. You can find parts for the older Brunswick GS-Series models much easier than these

[@JB-bs1se]

So are these pins special order with magnets?

[@therandomytchannel4318]

Yes, I think Mendes at the time contracted Qubica Amf to custom make these pins, they had MMC on the front

[@nicholaslloyd5623]

Yes they are- about 140 dollars more per lane in pin costs

[@FredrikMin-HyeokAndreassen]

This looks like the spaghetti!! 😮

[@williamblansfield7552]

Was the place in Idaho Hayden by chance?

[@nicholaslloyd5623]

Not sure

[@mychannel3016]

@@nicholaslloyd5623 Probably was. I bowled there around 12-15 years ago. Huge sports complex. Of the 292 bowling centers I've bowled in, it was only the second Mendez house I've seen.

[@生方みわ子]

これってどこ製のピンセッターですか？個人的にはAMFかと思います

[@bmhedgehog2]

"What a piece of junk!"-Luke Skywalker

[@gangrel1055]

What in tarnation is this sorcery

[@chadhankins]

Where is this?

[@nicholaslloyd5623]

New milford Connecticut

[@PinoyBowlerGS92]

​@@nicholaslloyd5623 I wonded if Holiday Lanes in Manchester, CT is still there because they had Bowl-Mor Duckpin Pinsetters which only less than 1% of Duckpin centers uses those

[@nicholaslloyd5623]

​@PinoyBowlerGS92 they closed in 2020 and the bowlmor duckpin machine is now extinct

[@JRBowling1997]

Is this the same setter thst wildfire used to have?

[@PinoyBowlerGS92]

Yes

[@aydengianes2515]

Yo wtf i never seen the magnet pinsetter but seen the magnet pins

[@TheCD5150]

Not gonna lie. I would rather put up with these than put up with stringpins.

[@nicholaslloyd5623]

Agreed

[@jasonsmith3537]

Overly designed.... have to have uncommon special pins.... No thanks. I'll stick to the GSX and A2

[@douglasskaalrud6865]

Meh….

[@billbird2969]

@GarageBowlingAlley