25 years ago I had an 8 lane house in Hermann Mo. " Like brand new " They said. My machines were all original and so clean you could eat off the gearboxes..Pindication worked I had an original installed Red Brunswick tool cabnet with ALL the original Brunswick Issuid tools in it And the long red parts book With the green Automatic Pinsetter Guide It burnt down two years after we sold it... And some where in the world of bowling there is an artical that Brunswick did about it....Proud of that....
I worked on Model A's in Chicago during the early part of the 1970s. (Gage Park Lanes, 56th and Western). Love and miss the sounds of these great machines.
I gotta tell you - what a great video of A-models. I could sit and watch this for hours and have. Would really like to see even more with more attention to the gearbox function. Amazing feat of engineering. Thank You for keeping bowling's golden era alive. Grateful that you shared this with us. I used to work on A-2s.
You guys need some guards on those things! : ) If noone has gotten injured on those Id be very suprised! But look well maintained otherwise! (maybe a little annoying worm noise, but not bad.) Good vid!
@cwhite32avc We are proud of our old machines, so we try to keep things as "old school" as possible (i.e. no guards). Nobody has been injured though (aside from minor scrapes, etc) since we are very careful to always shut down a machine before doing any work on them.
@motherofsmurf We have more Brunswick pins than we know what to do with. There's a stockpile in this back mechanical area seen in the video, plus another several boxes in a storage room. No idea why past managers have ordered so many pins all at once.
This is all the same equipment we have here at St. Boniface Lanes, including the over-ground ball return and the gold-crown masking units, but we still have the original rake boards. They are gold and say Brunswick on it.
Awesome vid man. Brunswick made a 5-pin version of this, called the A51 pinsetter for the Canadian bowling market. To bad, they didn't keep that version in production.
we have a brunswick a2 at our bowling alley and it works so fine that all lanes work for like allmost eveery saterday for leauge and i am in a leauge
JRBowling1997 3 weeks ago
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BHFR55 4 weeks ago
I almost went to work for a center in Chicago,,, Miami Lanes up on Archer.Ave...If it even still there...
izzynutz2000 1 month ago
25 years ago I had an 8 lane house in Hermann Mo. " Like brand new " They said. My machines were all original and so clean you could eat off the gearboxes..Pindication worked I had an original installed Red Brunswick tool cabnet with ALL the original Brunswick Issuid tools in it And the long red parts book With the green Automatic Pinsetter Guide It burnt down two years after we sold it... And some where in the world of bowling there is an artical that Brunswick did about it....Proud of that....
izzynutz2000 1 month ago
I worked on Model A's in Chicago during the early part of the 1970s. (Gage Park Lanes, 56th and Western). Love and miss the sounds of these great machines.
KMBCGeno 3 months ago
An A machine with no shotgun, I love it!
Sharkie626 3 months ago
omfg you used capet cover on that it stop the ball i do not used them
shelllanes 4 months ago
I gotta tell you - what a great video of A-models. I could sit and watch this for hours and have. Would really like to see even more with more attention to the gearbox function. Amazing feat of engineering. Thank You for keeping bowling's golden era alive. Grateful that you shared this with us. I used to work on A-2s.
thesmart67 5 months ago
You guys need some guards on those things! : ) If noone has gotten injured on those Id be very suprised! But look well maintained otherwise! (maybe a little annoying worm noise, but not bad.) Good vid!
cwhite32avc 7 months ago
@cwhite32avc We are proud of our old machines, so we try to keep things as "old school" as possible (i.e. no guards). Nobody has been injured though (aside from minor scrapes, etc) since we are very careful to always shut down a machine before doing any work on them.
Thanks for commenting!
ChrisCDK 6 months ago
Wow, you guys most have a stock pile of Brunswick made pins down back. My ally switched over to the AMF made pins almost a year ago.
motherofsmurf 8 months ago
@motherofsmurf We have more Brunswick pins than we know what to do with. There's a stockpile in this back mechanical area seen in the video, plus another several boxes in a storage room. No idea why past managers have ordered so many pins all at once.
ChrisCDK 6 months ago
This is all the same equipment we have here at St. Boniface Lanes, including the over-ground ball return and the gold-crown masking units, but we still have the original rake boards. They are gold and say Brunswick on it.
ben6273 10 months ago
You need to change that shaker board cover, that's what's causing the pins to idle and not get to the pinwheel from the shaker board.
xforce300 10 months ago
@xforce300 You are exactly right! We changed out the cover and now everything is working fine again. Thanks anyway for the tip though!
ChrisCDK 10 months ago
Awesome vid man. Brunswick made a 5-pin version of this, called the A51 pinsetter for the Canadian bowling market. To bad, they didn't keep that version in production.
EdmDude 11 months ago