Side door cam for my home basement candlepin bowling alley

[ALV524]

How Much Dollars I Had To Pay If I Want To Play Ur Candle Pin Bowling?

[loverbud8182]

Wow, thats some great looking work. Very impressive! One thing bothers me about it...the fun in candlepins is the speed, pin action and strategic use of fallen pins on subsequent shots. It seems the strings/ropes inhibit that aspect here.

[maxbadazz]

@loverbud8182 -- You are right about the strings. Its a balance of convenience that I can stay put to reset them, but at a cost of having semi-realistic pin falls. However........ all of the pins have been drilled with eye hooks and the strings have clamps (like a dog leash) so they can clip on. These can be undone easily and the strings raised so that a second set of pins (without eye hooks) can be used. I installed that sliding side door so manual pinsetting can be done fairly easily :)

[loverbud8182]

@maxbadazz --For freefall play, the best thing you can do is make sure the sidewalls are rigid. It took a lot of reinforcement on my alley to create realistic kickback action. I see you have what appears to be floormats on your sidewalls. I found replacing those with the 1/2" foam floormats that assemble by interlocking (commonly sold for childrens play areas) worked wonderfully in adding some spring to the action. Real candlepin alleys have rubber pads on the sidewalls.

[earljames1000]

@maxbadazz One thing I mention about is the ball pit is too smal for the pins you have to make it big like @ima627bowler did,is make his ball pit big. you know what I maen?