Bowl-Mor vintage candlepin bowling at historic Woodfords Club Portland, ME. 

Pretty much the same (I worked on A's. Jetbacks and A-2's, as well as 80-30's and 82-70's. had one house here in upstate NY that had Bowl Mors as well, but of the 10 pin variety (pretty much the same critter as the candlepin machines, but with obviously needed differences). My mind is telling me that if a Brunswick A-2 pin deck it MIGHT be able to to sit not only 10 pins, but perhaps candles and duckpins too with a bit of modification?

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I was the caretaker at Woodfords Club for 4 years and had so much fun learning how maintain them and fix them. I spent many hours troubleshooting the broken lanes when I first started there. When I started 3 out of the 5 were not functioning. When I left 4 out of the 5 were back in functioning order. Sadly one of them had some serious issues and missing parts.

@@lifein2073 I’m sure that with the proper parts , that machine could be up and running very quickly. These machines don’t have the ball lift, table modification where the ball lift motor is removed using the motor from the turntable. Couldn’t tell if the brakes had been removed from the pin lift and plugs installed instead of hardwiring. Most Bowl Mors had those revisions done years ago. Also it appears that tube on lane one had the old original gearbox on it. It’s a workhorse but it’s much slower. Some places just speeded up the tube with a smaller pulley. But those machines are clean and in very good working order.👍👍

@@lifein2073 outside of Saratoga NY in a small town by the name of Greenwich there was a Bowl-Mor with tenpin machines. He had to get parts from a machine shop.

@@robs531 Where was that? From Albany

@@surfinbird208 Greenwich. It was last known as PJ Lanes. I like that trip in the summer better. LOVE the Ice Cream Man and Windy Hills Golf Course is the best kept secret within 10 miles of the track. You can play it in 3:15 on a dark day!

I thought I counted 5 lanes

Wall/control desk switches are for 24VAC“ house relay” coils. 220 volts was supplied to each machine, all motors were 120 volts. I installed and maintained the (2) pin setters used on CANDLEPINS FOR CASH. They were located in the parking garage at WNAC in Boston . Joe Sullivan was shows producer, Bob Gamere was the host. Shows for the following week were taped on Saturday. I babysat, “ policing” the machinery in case of a jam or malfunctions, which never happened on my watch. Contestants bowled (1) frame/box. Get a strike and they win the jackpot. I spent quite a few Saturdays there. This was over (25) years ago.

@@richarddrozdowicz1531 Are you Hank the Guru of Pinsetters or related to Hank, since Hank was no kid back in 1975, your last name rings a bell with me? I was a part time pinsetter mechanic for Riverside Lanes in Watertown for 5.3 years, a 40 lane house and I met you once when you came to Riverside for some repairs in early 1975. You must remember George Cappy, the head mechanic there for years. You are correct about the 24 volts, I made my comment too early in the video before seeing the "house relay" in the control box, its just that those wall snap switches seemed so overkill I made an early assumption. I recall the 2 pole circuit breaker above each control box that I'd shut off when doing any repair on the equipment. I could say so much more but I will leave it at this for now.

It should be fairly easy even without the plans since balls are much wider than pins and don't fit into the pin lift, and pins are too long to fit into the ball lift. Too bad the lighting wasn't better to see the separation. Have to further search and visit the local bowl-a-rama.

I was holding a camera haha not my best form.

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Are there leagues?

@@_1ben I was in a league there a few years ago, 5 per team. Not 100% sure these days because it's been a few years

@@Sweetguy1821 I bet it was a good night out,

Well, if you want candlepins, order them on ebay.

@@evanwilson2465 i did never seen em sadly ain't seen em on ebay for over a year now

They aren’t replaced enough. I grew up cleaning them for my grandfather every summer. Back then, new pins cost $15 apiece. Now, I think it’s more like $50 apiece, and we used to put 24 in every machine. They are pretty durable, but you can only clean them so many times before they don’t look so good anymore.

From what I was told when I worked there it was due to space constraints.

@@lifein2073 oh thank you for the information. I hope they preserve it.

I used to work there and I've heard reports that the bowling alley itself (lanes) were put in in the 30's. The bowl-mor pin setters were put in the 50's-late 60's. I'm no expert so I couldn't tell you an exact year. The club used to hire local high school students to reset the pins before the pin setters were put in.

Yes. A local company manufacturers them. Garland MFG. Quite expensive I understand

There is the candlepin the mini pin the 6 pin bowling idk play galaxy bowling you will see all the mods

@@IhateschooI do you not know how different games are than bowling in real life?

@@tweeleaf ok i did not ask though

There is Duckpin Bowling only available in the US East Coast, however my home country Philippines has more Duckpin Bowling Centers still running til this day than the Duckpin Bowling Centers in the US East Coast

​@@IhateschooI That's 5 Pin Bowling. A Canadian variation of Bowling

No idea lol

I was thinking the pencil was left there for scale

I think someone lwft pencil forever

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@@ITZ_SLENDER R.I.P Pencil 2021-2021

Or even better Osku Palermaa

@@PinoyBowlerGS92 Yes!