Name: Kristin

Date: 11/30

Problems with lanes:
Lane 5- Two turnaround pan jams. Thanks for being kind tonight, 5!

Lane 6 - Released only the 5pin once.

Lane 7 - Turret stopped moving after the 2nd pin was dropped once.

Lane 8 - One deck jam in the 7pin chute.

Skeeball 3 is acting up again. The wires on the bottom refuse to stay attached. I was going to look at it but people were on it each time I went out and then a frustrated person turned it off so I'll leave it to the Skeewizard. Also, skeeball 2 kept flashing the Call sign. The tickets kept feeding under and into the machine instead of through the ticket slot.

Name: Kristin

Date: 11/29

Problems with lanes:
5- Only a couple of turnaround pans and one deck jam to report tonight.

6- The release of only the 5pin happened thrice.

7/8- Two turret stops due to maldropped pins in said turret.

Nothing much else to report. A smooth night.

Name: Kristin

Date: 11/28

Problems with lanes:
First, thanks Danny! Your work really paid off today as the lanes were quite well behaved.

4- One turret jam. Otherwise, smooth as a smooth thing.

5- Two turnaround pan jams but much better than last night.

6- The 5pin release happened twice, the second time caused a mean turnaround pan jam. Don't catch 5's syndrome!

8-One turret jam but no deck jams today.

All in all, the ladies treated me kindly after drawing some blood last night.

11/28/10

Name: Danny

Date:11/28/10

After Kristin's heart breaking blog last night, I decided to come in early today and try to get these things under control. I did some work on 4's spider, to assure it will start locking better. I worked on 6's pin release lever, to try and take care of that weird 5 pin problem for once and for all. But I mainly focused on 5's turn around pan. I thought of another way to adjust it, so I did. I also pulled out the ol' dremel again. I gave it to it real good this time, trying some different things. I seems to be more flat where needed and more smooth(?) It has really done fine since, there was one jam in it, but it was a totally different kind then I have seen before, maybe that is a result of my adjustment? I am not saying it is 100%, but it does seem to be working fine/better. Well Kristin, I hope they treat you with more grace tonight.

In terms of problems today, there really hasn't been any, except that turn around pan jam on 5. I didn't even get any calls for Skeeball, which just blows my freakin mind.

Name: Kristin

Date: 11/27

Problems with lanes:
Really busy tonight on the lanes. And a lot of small but frequent annoying problems occurred. Allow me to list.

4 - A few deck jams. At least 4 throughout the night. The spider didn't lock into place, which caused the pins to slip through. It also had a weird turret jam that I lack the words to describe in brutal detail and so will one day illustrate to those interested parties.

5-FIVE. EVIL. So, there were deck jams in the 5pin chute (2 or 3) as well as over 6 turnaround pan jams. That turnaround pan NEEDS to be replaced. This happens every shift I work if 5 is used more than half an hour. It is especially bad on busy nights.

6 - The release of only the 5pin into the chute happened more than four times tonight. Dat's a lot.

8-Werid turret jams causing deck jams. It had jams in the usual 7pin slot as well as the 5pin chute (which I've never seen it do before - or at least not in recent memory), and slightly frequent deck jams.

That's the report for tonight.

11/27/10 AM

Name: Danny

Date: 11/27/10 AM

This was a very busy brunch for bowling, I believe we were even on a wait for a while.
All and all, it was pretty smooth. There was an odd deck jam on 5, and a couple of vague complaints about "5 and 6 acting weird". Apparently dropping pins upon setting them, I don't buy it. That is out of creator for both of them. And some guy said that 6's rake just dropped down by it's self, I believe that was just his cover up for hitting the rake, which I did see him do. Either way, I guess some balls were retired last night? Apparently Adrian knows about this(?) We have had some complaints that we don't have enough lighter balls, I guess due to the fact that we lost some. So I am going to discuss with management today about getting some new ones in. That is all

11/26/10

Name: Danny

Date: 11/26/10

Pretty much the only thing that was happened besides a deck jam on 4 and a turn around pan jam on 5, was 3's ball wheel belt. Imler was complaining about this problem for a lil while, and I finally experienced it for myself tonight. Brian told me to take a cool on the lower right hand guide roller, for the ball wheel. Indeed, is was fucked up and needed to be changed. I took what I needed off a scrap roller and popped it on. Seemed to work fine for a while, untill is started happened again. Our guy seems to be, now, the upper right hand guide roller. It has a tiny broken spot on it, that when it happens to it, will fall right off. I have also replaced that was well. aside from that, a pretty decent night for HB pinsetters all over the world.

I miss Brian already.

Name:Brian

Date:11/24/10

Problems with lanes:
Lane 6 did it's 5 pin thing a couple times.
Lane 8 had a deck jam.
Lane 5 had it's turn around pan problem.
Lane 3's ball wheel belt popped off a couple times the bottom right guide wheel needs tightening. Balls also easily go by the ball wheel and get stuck in the limbo of the pin the wheel. I think this may be solved once the guide roller is tightened and wheel sits in it's proper position.

Ordering: Large pizza with ham and pineapple.

11/21/10 AM

Name: Danny

Date: 11/21/10 AM

And all was well in the land of Pinsettia....Despite that the fact that 4 had a deck lamb....hehehe, I said lamb instead of jam.......heheh

Name: Brian

Date: 11/20

Problems with lanes: Put the x washer on lane five. Seems to be staying put. Some deck jams happened, some balls got stuck. You know the usual.

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11/20/10 AM

Name:Danny

Date:11/20/10 AM

I reattached the clutch rod at the bottom, so 5 is back up and running.

5 also had a problem with it's pin wheel. The wheel would freeze up every now and again, and just stop moving. After a few moments, it would start moving again. Sometimes it wouldn't even start back moving, very strange. I looked into it. Turns out, it's assembly shifted a bit, due to a lose bolt and missing spring. I lined it back up, tightened it back up, and reattached it's spring. seems to run fine now.

Other then that, nothing really happened, it was a really slow brunch, so there wasn't a whole lot of room for error.

Name: Kristin

Date: 11/19

Problems with lanes:
Lane 4- There were a few deck jams tonight, due to the locking mechanism (or lack thereof) on the spider. Since it refused to lock into place after the pin drop into the deck, the pins would continue to slip through onto or into the deck, depending on the luck of the draw.

Lane 5 - Well, aside from the usual finicky light situation, there were several turnaround pan jams. That is, of course, when pins are unable to fully turnaround in the pan (hence the name) and instead, lay perpendicular to the pan, causing the pins behind it to jam themselves in nooks and crannies.

Lane 5 also stopped detecting balls right after I got six going (story of which is below). After trying everything I could think, I noticed that the solenoid rod was not moving properly - the pin at the bottom of the rod had fallen out. After an easter egg hunt, I found it and was able to insert it back in its rightful spot - however, to insure that it doesn't come out again, there needs to be an x--washer affixed to it. It's in a bit of a tricky area that I cannot access very well without taking somethings apart. As I don't know what that could do to the machine, I have left it for Danny to do tomorrow. The machine is quite runnable - but that pin could technically slide out whenever so it should be a last option.

Lane 6- Also stopped detecting balls. The reset mechanism on both the lane and the pit wasn't working. When moving the solenoid by hand, the machine refused to respond, though there was a "click" upon impact. At first, I thought it was the solenoid maybe burning out (it doesn't look very good). When I had more time to inspect the lane, I figured I would try everything the manual said it could be that didn't require an adjustment. I removed the clutch drive belt and put it back on, fiddled with the springs on the clutch engage mechanism, tightened the bolt on the indexing trip lever, checked to see if the full deck signal had been engaged - and somewhere between all of that, I got the machine to work. So yay!

6 also did released the 5pin into the chute but it didn't trigger the release of the deck. This has been a problem that danny hasn't experienced much but seems to be a regular for me.

Lane 8 - There were a few deck jams caused mainly by turret jams. The third pin on the turret was not sitting properly on the spider, tipped back and the head of the pin caught, and the turret was unable to move. I adjusted the turret and pin so that it could rotate properly when a pin went between the space in the turret and nearly caused another deck jam. There was also a pin laying horizontally across the 5pin chute, which somehow didn't jam the machine. I removed it during play so that it wouldn't.

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11/17/10

Name: Danny

Date: 11/17/10

Over the past couple of weeks, I am failed to blog, but no more.

I have done a lot of work on the skeeball machines, they all seem to be running much better over all. Still some problems everyone now and again, but not near as many as there were two weeks ago. I do need to order some more scoring switches, that is something I am going to talk to Ryan about soon. Plus this blog is going to start being sent to Ryan and Adrian, as well, so everyone stays in the loop.

Skeeball aside, light bulbs are all stocked up and I am doing my best to keep up with them. If anyone ever see's one out, let a brother know.

I have literally done to many things to the lanes to remember, but on the bright side, I haven't had to do anything to big. Kris and Brain did a great job taking care of lane 4 a couple of days ago, good job kiddos. I am still always working on the little kinks going on with each individual lane.

I am working on a new Maintenance sheet for weekly, Bi-weekly and monthly maintenance. It should be finished soon.

Plus Shlee had her first little bit of training today, she did well and seemed to understand things well. All three of us, through out the next week will all have some training with her, just so ya'll know.

Name: Kristin

Date: 11/15

Problems with lanes:

The usuals with the usuals. But onto the more interesting topic:

Lane 4.

So, man bowls into rake as machine is completing 360 cycle, (so from 270 to 360 or, in case I'm completely off about the cycles, from when the rake is at the back of the pit and then moves forward again to allow the deck to set down.) Brian witnesses as the ball is knocked all the way back down the lane.

Next cycle or so, the rake has become stuck on the deckshoe and the pit cushion has fallen off on the right side.

Brian and I wrangled the pit cushion back into place - it more violently popped into place than anything. Then using the clutch, moved the deck and rake back into place. When the rake was stuck on the deck, it was bent but seems to have returned to normal shape.

Ran through one cycle, everything worked except the pit cushion - did not lower to protect back of machine from bowling balls. Turned machine off for the night.

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Name: Kristin

Date: 11/9

Problems with lanes:
Not too much going on tonight. Let's see...

5- One turnaround pan jam.

6-Released the 5pin but didn't trigger release of other pins (twice)

8-Two deck jams both in the 10pin housing.

The lanes were fairly well behaved. Good job, ladies.

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