Behind The Scenes- Pinsetter Machine
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- I really enjoyed going behind the scenes and learning the ins and outs of running a pinsetter machine... I even got hands on and did some stuff myself! Huge thank you to head mechanic Lonnie Smith and the Hijinx Bowling Center in Jonesboro, AR for letting me take part in this!
Check out the video and let me know your thoughts. Like it? Give it a thumbs up and make sure to subscribe to my channel as I'll be posting more videos like this weekly while I'm on the road with the PBA Tour! #KimberlyOnTheRoad
Camera: Phil Brylow
Edit: Jef Goodger
Location: Hijinx- Game Night Reinvented
Machine: Brunswick A2 Pinsetter
My first job was fixing these things in 1981. 40 years later, I'm fixing huge, multi-million-dollar machines and making pretty good money. Watching this video, it's surprising how much I still remember. Maybe when I retire in a few years, I'll go back and do it part time just for the fun of it. Pinsetters are, arguably, the first robots.
Oh man. Her hair next to the machine is scaring me. These things are no joke. Glad they touched upon the safety procedures
Amf guy here. Those Brunswick’s are engineering genius!!! The sound of the clanking and clunging of those A2s are therapeutic. Love love that sound.
Those are some of the cleanest A2s I've ever seen.
They probably cleaned it up just for her.
@@connorallen9711 I would give 100 likes if I could.
Great feature. But one safety item should be to pull your hair up. It would be awful if anything happened to your fantastic hair.
Pzzzahut
Saw it happen to a girl like her and a tractor PTO shaft. She lived but it was awful. You’re spot on with that advice.
I put two A2's in my garage. I have a lot of respect for the engineers and OTIS Elevator Company. These are complex machines still running today. Mine are 1964 late A's converted to 2's.
You have bowling lanes in your garage?
Yes. He really has two A2 pinsetters in his garage. You should check out the videos.
Great insight going behind the scenes of the pin setters!
Thanks so much! There is so much to learn about it all but it was nice to be able to see how it all works :) Thanks for watching!
Bowling is lucky to have Kimberly Pressler. Nice video.
This is so cool! Dangerous and complex but very cool with all those machinery parts working together like that with the pins and balls. FASCINATING!!!
"180 - Lane 1"
Respot 5, Lane 1"
I just caught 1000 simultaneous flashbacks
Me to lol
Same here... "Outa range, lane 1"... 😆
Me 3, I worked at Milton bowl, Brisbane, Australia, back in the 80’s. Brunswick A2’s
@@SmokeyGoodness see that wire hanger looking pipe cleaner on the back? Pull and HOLD that part until the machine stops moving then release.
I miss this job.
I wholeheartedly agree. Only these Brunswick machines should like this.
Outstanding video. Best of the genre I've ever seen & I had 45 years in the biz. Gives a superb glossing-over of the pinsetter operation for the public to see without bogging down on details. Bravo!
Kimberly had such a good time
Great video! I always wondered how those machines work. My grandmother told me back in the olden days, there were people whose job it was to reset the pins manually and roll your ball back to you through the gutter. When they were done bowling, they'd throw coins down the lane for tips.
My father did that as a teen. A guy bowled a 300 and then rolled the ball down the lane with a $20 bill in the thumb hole. That was a lot of money for a teen to make in a night.
Just ran across this video,,,,nice video...
I finally retired after 48 years as a pinsetter mechanic....I only freelance now,,,doing the same thing...
Fascinating machines...
I am still at it, since December 1970. I still like to put them apart. I agree, all are fascinating machines. I started with AMF 82-30s. Also worked on Brunswick A-2 and AMF 82-70's and now 8800 Gold and 82-90's.
Started bowling at 8 years old, and then was hired by the owner just as I turned 18 to my glee and surprise, without even a application, to work in back of the bowling alley, those machines were the AMF 82-30's and it was a blast to learn all the in's and out's. Seeing the top view looking down all the lanes reminded me of the AMF machines had a platform to walk on, which as a kid I could run from lane 1 to lane 20 across the platform....of course not safe...but I was a kid then.
Growing up bowling in an A-2/JetBack house and working in a candlepin/GS-X house, I love seeing those old machines tick!
Very interesting video to watch. Ty for posting this Kimberly!
Thanks Kimberly for showing me how backstage of bowling alley looks like a good tour.
In my teens I worked at a bowling center, the head mechanic insisted that all pinsetters have 22 pins; looking back it made perfectly good sense!
A-2s are nice to see! Love fixing these!
Brunswick pinsetters are tanks. So many moving parts. AMF pinsetters "malfunction" because they are mostly electric. Brunswick pinsetters "breakdown" because they are mostly mechanical.
The Brunswick GSX had both Electrical and Mechanical problems
thus the letters AMF: always mal functioning
Your view Kimberly certainly adds to this video. 🔥
The Brunswick A2 pinsetter I've been working on these for 30 years. They're becoming rarer and rarer but they are the Workhorse of the industry still. The GSX is catching up. But I love the A-2 Simple easy to work on
I do too, but I find the GSX more of my type, hope to soon work behind those.
Ive never worked on a gsx is it a pain
I would love to work on A2’s or GSX someday but as of now I’m still in school and my hometown only has 1 Bowling Center which is an AMF with their 82-90 XL machines not being maintained and breakdowns are increasing really fast.
working on the A2 for me is so satisfying reason being is when that machine is working well its a amazing sight
Way to go Lonnie!! Cool intro for her.
I was a Brunswick A1/A1 jetback mechanic until a few years ago. I miss that job.
Another successful mission! Great job!
A pin setter machine can be dangerous but realy fun to work one with safety instructions.
A Gearhead's job ! someone who likes machines and making things work! Amazing machines and it's hidden from view! most people that bowl never thinks about how it all works .....
Great video, love seeing A2s. If the PBA gig doesn't work out you'd make a great pinchaser.
Amazing! I really enjoyed this video. Thanks for posting!
I applied to be a pinsetter today! 15 years as a flat rate dealership tech has got my toe on the trigger of my shotgun. It’s gonna get messy if I don’t get this job.
A2's look so cool. I cut my teeth on 82-30's and currently work on 82-70's.
I was taught by a girl to work on these machines way back in the seventies and I've been doing it ever since
I can’t stand fixing bowling lanes, I work at a bowling alley, now I’m not mechanic but I do crawl under the front of the lane and help out, but the other day, there was a pin out of reach of the rake arm,, I slid under to get it and the dumbasses at the lane reset it while I was under there, causing the rake arm to drop down on me, and then all the pins fell down on top of me…safe to say I told them to get the fuck out, especially cause they were laughing like it was funny when I could’ve been killed
These Brunswick A2's are so maintenance intensive! But they have proven themselves to be a high quality machine. How many machines built today last over 50 years? NONE!!!
The Amf 82-30 was the first automatic pinspotter on the Market then in 1963 The Amf 82-70 replaced the 82-30s those machines 60 years and older and still running strong in many houses I like that 82-70s over the Brunswick A2s to me its s much less complicated machine to work on just my personal opinion
@markpapp5942 Yes...Those 82-70s are the best ever made. Easy to work on also.
She should have tied her long hair: First level of safety instruction when you are near rotary, moving parts.
I went o school at Vincennes University for Bowling Lanes Management where we learned how to work on Brunswick and AMF! Sadly, they got rid of the program a few years ago due to low enrollment!
Great job Lonnie !
Nobody probably ever appreciated what that guy did and this video made him feel appreciated.
He's thinking about setting his pin!
Kimberly!
By Jove, I think she's got it.
Nice job getting that Brunswick A-2
I've seen many pinsettees in action but one thing which happened here answered a question I had about "why did Brunswick have gone to electronic brains for GS pinsettees ?".
Respotting specific pins.
That's a thing GS pinsetters can do if asked from the desk, no need to get a pinboy wasting his time while maintenance might be necessary elsewhere.
Brunswick A's and every AMF pinspotter might miss this which end in pinboys manipulating these machines while powered up (and that's fing dangerous)
I was completely distracted but great video!
Same lol. Didn’t learn much
I have installed hundreds of the A2’s
Nice video, thanks !
She really needed it put her hair up. And take that massive rock off! That would mess up the machine if it got stuck in it. :)
I’ve been working on a2 for 23 yrs it’s a love hate relationship 😅
I used to work at a bowling alley it was cool
Its a tough job folks being a pinsetter mechanic especially when your're doing it all with not much help.
The clang noises on the Pinwheels are good than the irritating Turret whining noise
They let me in the back and they really let me fix the A2’s hard to fix😅
I couldn’t hear well, did he say a kid could get stuck in it?
Ever since I was a little boy I wanted a job doing that at the bowling center
Lamp check, fuse check, circuit breaker check...
A2s? Where I worked, the electrical boxes were on the opposite side. Converted A1 to A2?
On the older machines that's where the electrical box was located
Turn power off is one thing. Putting the rake down is another step for saving ankles for the GSXs.
Cool
Ok how long does it take to train someone to do this?
a2 pinsetter i was head mechanic 12 years dyess bowling center
Did he show her the pit room?
Show the 1-1 or the gearbox clutch or the turrent clutch for that matter
I go to this alley
Please help me am bowling tecnician do you have a work
So fiiinneeee
18,000 parts on a pinsetter
Yupp quiet big
That fan
They should replace their Linds Pins with Qubicaamf AMFLITE 2 Pins
Eww.
Hi Dear
Sucks that string setters are becoming more and more common. They are like double rimmed basketball hoops
she has nice pins
looking good lady!
they need new pins
bro this machine is stupidly complex lol
3500 parts
Actually, on an A-2, it's 4000 parts each machine, but close!
0:26 No stupid pepole!
The host has great cans....
Would have loved to see more of what he was talking about and less of you reacting to what he was saying.
you are so beautiful