Qubica MAG3 Pinsetter

I had to upload this as i've never seen such a pinsetter before, quite amazing to watch, mostly from its simplicity..

Trivia from Wikipedia:
The Mendes company produced a magnetic pinsetter known as the MM-2001. It featured a flat magnetic pin table and magnets on the head of each pin. It had a pit similar to the AMF and an elevator similar to the GSX. Pin loading involves the combination of a carousel and magazine. The company claimed this technology reduces stops in play due to table jams on out-of-range pins. Mendes was bought out by Qubica, which sold the machine as the MAG3 until its partnership with AMF.

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• PINSETTER
• PINSPOTTER

[thiswilldoblue]

Crazy machine, but I suppose you got to start somewhere trying to develope an auto pinsetter. Thanks for this unusual upoload.

[wattaman]

@thiswilldoblue Your welcome :)

[BigElevatorDude707]

It's very interesting of how the pinspotter has a magnet and picks up the pins that way! :D

[wattaman]

Its great to watch, would really like to see one in action..

[plexnoid]

That is really cool. But the thing is HUGE! I can't imagine running 30 or 40 of them at a time.

[spiritswitchboard]

It's as if Tim Burton designed this pinsetter! Great Video.

[boomerblunts]

I work in a house with 18 of these machines. They are complete pieces of shit. They require constant maintenance and supervision. They are not built to run well. The concept is sound, but the design is completely flawed as they are too sensitive and constantly shutting down. As I understand it, where i work is one of only 2 remaining bowling centers in all of North America that still runs these machines. No big surprise why.

[Ethan777100]

This pinsetter sucks!!

[JonneSchnitzler]

I have been working with 82-30s, Gs-X and the Mendes machine, we bought these 2001, they are extremely fond of being taken care of and not very forgiving. The booking program that mendes sold was incomplete from the beginning (one important feature it misses is the "replay" function from the deskcomputer), which makes the deskstaffs lifes so much more interesting.

[JonneSchnitzler]

@plexnoid

Be glad cause you wouldnt want 30 or 40 of these machines, you maintenance bill would be HUGE!

[ke3wh]

Pretty cool

[apexsixtail]

Actually, Qubica bought the rights to the AMF pinsetters. I think they want to put the computer from the mendes machine on the AMF Chassis

[BIGGREENLEAF1]

The part where the deck picks the pins out of the magazine is almost identical to how the Sherman duckpin machine performs the same function...

[bmhedgehog2]

bloody pieces of junk. Now you know why Mendes went under and bought out by Qubica, then when that went under AMF bought them out and thank god AMF has its own damn good pinsetter.