I have been working on bowling machines since December 1970. Mostly AMF 30 and 70 and now 90's. Brunswick A2 for a short time. I want to travel and visit centers with duckpin and candlepin machines. This is a machine I want to see in action.
It's a very fast machine except on a double strike, or a strike when it's running short pins. In those cases, it's even slower Than an a speed brunswick machine waiting at 180!
Neat concept however there's an awful lot of moving parts and wear points. I'd be concerned about high maintenance costs and problems a few years down the road.
Here's a video from Wildfire Lanes: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-k5z3MYthdB0.htmlsi=2euIKiTWqQHNN3_c They used have these pinsetters until 2014 when they switched out for GS-X Pinsetters
@@PinoyBowlerGS92Today, Wildfire Lanes now uses the Brunswick GS-X pinsetters. I don't know why they changed the machines from the Mendes MM-2001 to the Brunswick GS-X.
@@OfficialGH98 The reason why Wildfire Lanes switched to GS-X is because these magnetic pinsetters are unreliable and because only very few centers had them, finding parts is near impossible. You can find parts for the older Brunswick GS-Series models much easier than these
@@nicholaslloyd5623 Probably was. I bowled there around 12-15 years ago. Huge sports complex. Of the 292 bowling centers I've bowled in, it was only the second Mendez house I've seen.
@@nicholaslloyd5623 I wonded if Holiday Lanes in Manchester, CT is still there because they had Bowl-Mor Duckpin Pinsetters which only less than 1% of Duckpin centers uses those
