Brunswick Model A Pinsetter

A 50 year old Brunswick Model A pinsetter in operation at a bowling alley in Chicago, IL.

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Education

Tags:

• brunswick
• bowling
• pinsetter
• model
• a-2
• a/2
• pins
• machine
• mechanical

[cwhite32avc]

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!

[ChrisCDK]

@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!

[motherofsmurf]

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.

[ChrisCDK]

@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.

[xforce300]

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.

[ChrisCDK]

@xforce300 You are exactly right! We changed out the cover and now everything is working fine again. Thanks anyway for the tip though!

[JRBowling1997]

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

[izzynutz2000]

I almost went to work for a center in Chicago,,, Miami Lanes up on Archer.Ave...If it even still there...

[izzynutz2000]

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....

[KMBCGeno]

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.

[Sharkie626]

An A machine with no shotgun, I love it!

[shelllanes]

omfg you used capet cover on that it stop the ball i do not used them

[thesmart67]

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.