PinJam

The cause of the elusive pin jam on lane 8

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• AMF82-90XLPinspotterXcalibur

[alterman156]

Replace the pinsetters with Brunswick "A"s. They work and almost every mechanic knows how to work on a Brunswick "A".

[bobbie4]

@alterman156 Too true.

[alterman156]

@bobbie4 Here is what AMF stands for. Automatic Malfunctioning Fiasco. Though the AMF [(American Machine & Foundry) proper name] 82/70 and 82/90 pinsetters are good machines, the Brunswick "A"s beat them. I feel that the Brunswick "A"s (all models) are superior to the AMFs. I wish that Brunswick never stopped producing the "A" series pinsetters. They are reliable. Almost every mechanic knows how to work on them. They seldom jam. They can produce a hum, but that can often be corrected.

[bobbie4]

@alterman156 I Thought AMF stood for Another Mechanical Fuckup. Seriously, they're not bad machines. Definitely not as durable an A2.

[billboardnumber1]

@alterman156 Listen to me all of you. Buy the A-2 model stop being cheap!

[bobbie4]

@billboardnumber1 Not a bad idea!

[fyrmn221]

Take a rag, wipe off the dust, then take a rag with lane oil, and put a light coating on it.

[JRBowling1997]

SO AT MY BOWLING ALLEY IT HAS A BRUNSIWCK A2 PINSETTER AND LIKE ALLMOST EVEERY SATERDAY WHEN I GO FOR BOWLING LEAUGE ALL THE LANES WORK FINE and it never gets jamed but why is it not gettting a jam? is it new or something? like is it a new a2 pinsetter?

[Bananadude1200]

how about they take off that f****ng plastic piece !

[janchapman1969a]

unfortunately they stoped making the A-2 about 30 years ago

[jepuskar]

Ahh, brings back memories. Use to work on 82-70's back in the middle 90's.

I created an electronic out of range device that would alert us in the mechanics room when an OOO happened. It was cheap, but it worked. I'm still proud of that thing. Wonder if it's still in use? hmm

[MrJasonh89]

@alterman156 AMF is coming out with a new pin elevator - the cause of almost every pin jam. After that, they will definitely have the advantage. At this point, AMF=simple but has problems with known causes, Brunswick=reliable but complicated and hard to fix. When orientation problems are all but eliminated - watch out Brunswick.

[Reddogmr57]

Thats kind of funny to see, i almost had the impression that I was the only person to think of a "band-aid" type solution to mis-feeds....lol I just use old broken bowling pins, since bowling pins have holes in the bottom anyway. Sticking pins or plastic ball rail tubes like that, up there on the steel dowels of the orientor pan actually helps in some cases.

[alterman156]

@bobbie4 I would agree that the AMF 82-70, 82-90 were good machines. There was also the AMF 82-30. However, the Brunswick "A"s were simply better machines and I think that they were the best. Brunswick should have never discontinued the "A" series pinsetters. The GS series pinsetters are junk.