Selbstgebaute Kegelbahn mit automatischem Kegelsteller
Videos of the lane and the working pinsetter
My name is Reinhold Schweitzer
I live in Germany.
This is my homemade 9-pin bowling alley.
It's built in 1979, many, many years ago! The lane is
different to the 9-pin lanes we use in Germany.
It's like a 10-pin bowling lane. The pins are
exactly 1/3 scale. We use two different kinds :
of pins in one set! 8 normal pins and one king pin
in the middle of the set.
I'm sorry for the old bad quality of the videos. At the moment I'm working on the pinsetter. I like to build a new full electronic control-center and
I want to change the old mechanical pin string switches against new electronic ones. So I can not take some new pictures or videos.
I made by myself out of wood and polyethylene (the white one).
In the middle you can see the little crown of the king pin. It
makes the king pin a little larger then the others.
A big difference to 10-pin bowling or other bowling like 5-pin,
duck pin ect. is, we play with very different rules. For example:
after each ball the pinsetter has to build up all 9 pins, or after
each ball only the rest of the pins until all pins are hit! Also
the pinsetter must be able to set up every choice of pins. Every
combination of pin collection must be possible.
So we know hundreds of games, such as easy to play games for be
ginners, or games to play with 2 or more teams. This makes "kegeln"
to a very interesting game and it's not boring!
what the pinsetter has to do. For example: First ball
all 9 pins, second ball the rest of pins. Next ball it
starts again with 9 pins (like a 10-pin bowling game).
The pinsetter can do this also with 3, 4, 5... and more
balls.
Or the pinsetter puts up the first 5 pins (like 5-pin bowling)
after every ball, or the rest of pins until all pins are hit, then
the selection of 5 pins again ect... It can do this with every
selection of pins (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6... pins).
The size of balls are also different. This, the different pins
in one pin set and the different games makes the control of the
pinsetter difficult. So I think the string pinsetter is for this
kind of bowling the first choice.
the alley are made by myself, or taken from the old iron.
The engine is a 12V engine from the car wipers.
There is also an electronic control center. It's working fine
since 1979, without any trouble!
As I know is every other homemade pinsetter a copy of a
real existing pinsetter machine. My pinsetter is my own construction!
iron ball coming out of the bottom. The pins can only
stand up in special spots at the pindeck. There is no
"off spot position" possible! When the pin moves out of its spot,
it must fall!
