AMF 82-30 Table Cycle Closeup

Viewed from the right side, this is the table in motion on a complete frame. Pins feed into the table; note the special feeder tray needed to get the #1 pin to its spotting cup. Pins #3 and #6 are at the forefront of this video. The #5 feeds as the table is down, again note how the pin needs to avoid the inside of the track behind the #1 pin.

On the second ball cycle, as the spotting cups rotate to spot the pins, note how the track separates to accommodate this movement. The distributor, in place to deliver the #7 pin, has to remain on the track (not visible) during this cycle, and not otherwise move, even while its belt is continuously moving. There are many key critical adjustments in play here.

Note how the #2 pin winds up a bit off-spot (directly to the rear) even though it's on-spot on the first ball. Perhaps the table cam or one of the gears in the three-gear assembly needs replacement. The spotting cups and respot cells juggle a bit during the table cycle as evidence of this. Properly adjusted, there should be minimal movement.

Category:

Science & Technology

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• Bowling
• Machine
• Pit
• AMF
• 82-30
• Pinspotter
• Pinsetter
• Table

[deesyphrr]

This things are hell on pins aren't they?

[8230PinChaser]

@deesyphrr Very much so. One of my other videos, someone made a comment on there being five-year-old pins in use. Far from it. These machines aren't kind to the pins in terms of appearance.

[ke3wh]

lol, well fix it :)

I loved working on these.

[8230PinChaser]

I no longer work as a pinchaser. This machine probably needs a replacement gear in the table assembly, or a cam adjustment, since the spotting cups wobble as a group when the table passes the the vertical point. Replay this video - the table should go up and down and the hanging pins shouldn't move much at all, even when they drop into the cups, and especially when picked up and respotted.

[yardhunter1]

The respot cells & the sweeps were the biggest headaches on those machines. We were constantly working on them, especially if a customer accidently hits the sweep with a 16 pounder. Ahhh, those were the days.....

[Bill25cycle]

I bet the 82-30 was much gentler on the pins than on the Brunswick A2, where the cycle and sweep times are so much faster.

[Gaddy1021]

wonderland is a nice bowling center..it is half 82-30 half 82-70 kinda like old satellite bowl....... harbor lanes in st. clair shores has 82-30's too

[CoderjoeIsTaken]

There's also Hudsonville Lanes in Hudsonville, MI, and Rockford Lanes, in Rockford, MI.

[arkema202]

We have a few 8230's left in MI. Wonderland Lanes in Commerce Township Mi. has a few! did'nt get to use an 8230 lane when i was there though. nice center and staff.

[BIGGREENLEAF1]

Put new gripper pads on the no. 2 respot cell and it should respot it much better than it is now.

[EdmDude]

I bowled at an old 8230 house, and one thing i noticed is, the full set when spotted, the pins are really wobbly,

I think the machine needs an adjustment.