Evolution of Brunswick automatic pinsetters (www.oldbowling.com)

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* Pinboys using spikes to set pins
* B-1 semi-automatic pinsetter
* 1920's automatic pinsetter
* Prototype Model A pinsetter

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[EdmDude]

yeah, cool looking GS-type sweep. I guess history repeats itself.

[red7pin]

Did anyone catch at 2:39 the guy bowling is left handed and the next shot comes in from the right.LOL nice try guys...

[bigalz420]

@red7pin so he throws a reverse curve, alot of people bowl like that u dirty nigger, fuck you

[janchapman1969a]

@red7pin - sorry, it is normal for a lefty to attempt this spare from the right

[rivierarick]

Interesting that these had features the wouldn't get public until AMF came out with the ACCU-SCORE chassis in the 80's

[DSnWiiRocks]

@red7pin if he hook the ball?

[BIGGREENLEAF1]

The problem for early pinsetter designers for years was not the setting or loading of a new rack or returning the ball but was the picking up and respotting of the pins after the first ball. That issue had stymied designers for close to 40 years...

[BIGGREENLEAF1]

@uberbcs Brunswick responded with the model A machine as the A-2 wouldn't come about for a few years later around the time the AMF was getting ready to launch their second machine the 82-70 A machine the had the roll over bin and the first 82-70 machine nearly put AMF out of business because it was so bad, the redesign of the bin and distributor just in the nick of time saved them...

[slb785]

@Predatorocks I work on both brunswick A-2s and AMF 82-70s. (mostly amf). And know that only the AMF is capable of cycling like that. And as for the rake/sweep. The AMF sweep is actually VERY durable. Ive seen them get blasted with a 15lb ball and they hold up well. Working full time at my job in the AMF house i havent seen a sweep bar broken in years

[Predatorocks]

@slb785 I don't think I've ever seen that either, but maybe it has to do with not many people getting a gutter on the first shot, and people seeing it a lot less.

I find it funny how that one machine has 2 guard things. The ones they use today for the guards just look so flimsy like they would break easily if you throw a rocket of a bowling ball down the alley.

[ke3wh]

@EdmDude didnt seem to be that way to me, but my eyes suck now days

[Schmicko007]

actually, all the pinsetters in the gs-series have that function, they do the same thing if you only hit a 7 or 10 pin on the first ball