Qubica MAG3 Pinsetter 

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.

The world's first computer controlled pinsetter and perhaps the most complicated ever made. No wonder Mendes went under with how complicated these things are.

I really like the way the horizontal rows of pins slide into place. Sorry to hear that these machines are such a pain to run.

I work in a center which installed the Mendes version of these machines in 2001. They are different, but very irritable and can be glitchy at time. When I worked on the old A-2's, I might get 4-5 calls on a busy night. With these things if I get fewer than 15 it was a good night. Since the upgrade to the new AMF software that is being used on the MAG3 machines, we've had communication issues and problems with individual parts of the machine stopping (i.e. sweeps don't move, ball doors inop, etc.). The new software has issues with the old hardware/firmware. Overall, they are easy to maintain and nice to work on, but a pain to work with.

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

I remember seeing one of these @ the BPAA Trade Show in San Francisco in about 1996 or so... and they COULD NOT get it to run!!

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

Even though I like AMF this just looks crazy!

Pretty cool

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

This machines was not created by AMF. That's an association with the french machines MENDES 🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵

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

Just look at all those moving parts that need maintaining and adjusting.

These would be good for duckpin

I found these kinds of pinsetters on videos taken at Wildfire Lanes!

@thiswilldoblue Your welcome :)

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

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

Now Qubica ans AMF are an unique manufacturer called QubicaAMF (obviously), I think that pinsetter are not a good choisie because it have a lot of moving parts. I think it is the reason of Qubica to link with AMF ans uses AMF models :) But I prefer the GS-X.

Always amazed me how much louder these things were compared to the A2.. don't know who hated them more the bowlers or the people who had to work on them. Any time any jam took place the pin light would go out and the ball lights flashed.. distracting..

what kind of pinsetters are these??!?

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.