we had a 16 lane Brunswick house, spotless machines. Spent a lot of time working the back room. Got so used to the sound of the pins we often fell asleep on the catwalks on no-call evenings!

Worked in a center in San Diego that had 64 of the 8230's--University Lanes in San Diego back in the early 1970's. Hadn't seen the vertical ball lifts before this video, as we had the angled ball lifts. Those machines do look good! And regarding someone else's post about room behind the pinspotters--we had a bit more room than that, along with a big shop area.

Nice - some of the cleanest machines I've seen in a long time. I got to do some tests on these back in the 80's at AMF's pinspotter school in Shelby, OH.

82-30s are some serious work horses ! Your machines are clean and shiny. I hear those vertical ball lifts are a royal pain to change out. Stepper chassis ?

Those home-made pulley guards on the pin wheel motor. We didn't have those. Someone must have gotten hurt and the boss had them made. I don't see the rear guards for the pin wheel rear on though. Rebuilding respot cells made the time fly...lol

Lots of belts, lots of electric motors and moving parts. Lots of stuff that can go wrong. Not so bad until 2 or 3 go down at once and you're the only guy working there.

@bluemonkey519

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, a lot of stuff going on. As with any machine, something can (and will) break at any time, but for the most part they are pretty reliable.

If I had the opportunity to work at a bowling alley like this, I would. It would be cool and fun 😉

@bluemonkey519

5 жыл бұрын

It is really cool and fun!

Really confused here. Chassis is either 82-30-3930 or 4400. But the motors are electric brake which were first used on 6525 all others before then were magnetic brake pressing against a brake lining. Distributer track had no stops on it and which means they were converted to the stop less tracks. I also saw chassis for the path finder ball indicator which were not used until the 6525. Surprised to see vertical ball returns as all houses I worked out had them converted to the angled type that eliminated the ball door. Solid pin wheels had no guards on them.

The thing that drives me nuts as a former long time Facility manager is these centers that have no room behind the machines. My center had 8-10 feet to the rear wall. Plenty of room for parts, storage, and working. Nobody that built an old center cared about the mechanics!

Just think of all the moving parts in all those re-spot cells.

Wow! Vertical ball lifts and closed pin wheels. Never seen these in real life. What year were these machines manufactured?

@prestonknepper708

6 жыл бұрын

I worked on those in 1956. Weren't that bad to change out. The lift was better than the slants but the ball doors were a pain and sometimes let a pin jam it. The paddles on the slants were better but the lift sometime wouldn't pick up the ball. We put springs on them to apply more pressure on the ball, we also roughed up the surface of the belt for a better grip.

I wonder if the alley retrofit those wood guards over the belts for safety reasons.

@bluemonkey519

6 жыл бұрын

That is exactly the reason :)

@toscodav

6 жыл бұрын

Are they original equipment or added later?

Only thing Im trying to understand is how the pinwheel keeps the pins from loading on the conveyor when the pin setter is full. Ive always been the type of person who is curious about the machinery behind things that people take for granted.

@prestonknepper708

6 жыл бұрын

Look at 3:20 and you will see the big cam behind the pinwheel. There are rollers that follow that cam and a solenoid gate lever the is actuated to let the pins drop into the distributor after 10 pins are counted the gate drops to the closed position and the cam roller holds the pins with the actuating rods until the table resets and the solenoid is opened to let the pins drop onto the distributor.

worked on these babies knew every part when i seen the V ball lift i had to watch closed ball doors too you never seen them also

Looks like 4400 chassis

1:07

What series of 82-30's are these... 5850? 6525? Just curious...

@bluemonkey519

8 жыл бұрын

+NipkowDisk Never saw your comment til now... They are actually 3930's. I have a video on here of it working.

@NipkowDisk

8 жыл бұрын

+Chris Weber I thought the 3930 distributors rested at the 10-pin versus the 7-pin, unless perhaps the later ones changed or these were modified to do so. However, I must add that I didn't see the chain-driven cam until just now which I believe narrows it down to either 3930 or 4400 chassis (the closed pinwheel should have tipped me immediately as well...). Some other things threw me off too, including my memory ;) Thanks for the info, never seen an actual 3930 chassis until now (though I have seen 4400's MANY years ago).

Brunswick forever!

yep those are 4400's

@bluemonkey519

8 жыл бұрын

+Bob G Actually they are older, 3930's. I have a video on here of one of them doing its thing.

@bobg4657

8 жыл бұрын

+Chris Weber couldn't see chassis in this vid - did look at your other 3930 (no stepper unit). Tks