Name: Kristin

Date: 12/8

Problems with lanes:

There was one anomaly tonight: Lane 7.

Lane 7 decided it would have the open circuit problem generally perpetrated by lane 4. However, lane 7 had the problem 4 times tonight. What happens is that the lane will randomly power down due to a circuit somehow becoming "open." What one has to do is "close" the circuit by resetting it - however, usually this only happens once a night, every...well, not often. That it happened four times tonight, within the span of 5 hours is worrisome.

Name: Kristin

Date: 12/4

Problems with lanes:

3 - She did something a little different tonight. At one point, the right side of the ball wheel popped off from around the wheel, as it has done in the past. Usually balls can get past no problem but an 8lb ball must've gotten stuck in just the riiiight spot because it caused the ball wheel to just stop turning. It made the worst squealing noise ever. Had to turn the machine off and beat the ball out of the ball accelerator arm in order for the ball wheel to be able to turn again.

4- Deck jams in the 7pin housing. Tonight the head of the pin became stuck in between the deck opening and the wheel next to the the 7pin housing. Weird.

5- A couple of nasty turnaround pan jams. The pins are getting stuck in a different pattern here as well, with one pin not even on the pan or the cross conveyor but wedged in midair in such a way as to disturb things.

6- Clutch drive belt came off once. Also there was one incident of the sneaky 5pin release.

7-Turret stopped once after the 2nd pin.

And in skeeball news, 2 is alll kinds of weird. The lips that the tickets feed through is out of alignment and then there's a ticket jam that I don't know how to get out aside from maybe taking it apart.

12/4/10 AM

Name: Danny

Date: 12/4/10 AM

No problems at all with the lanes or skeeball.

Worked with Dylan today, he had a great memory of everything. Taught him a couple of the new things the lanes be doing, and I believe he is going to be just fine tomorrow morning.

12/3/10

Name: Danny

Date: 12/3/10

The Night was pretty smooth.

The wires in Skeeball three had come lose, once again. I reattached them, it has been fine since.

The ball wheel belt on lane 2 had become so ripped and gnarled up, that it refused to stay on. It kept popping off. So, even though it was poor timing, happening on a Friday night and all, but they have minds of their own. I changed the ball wheel belt, and it has been running fine.

That was our last replacement ball wheel belt, so I am going to order a couple more.

12/2/10

Name: Danny

Date: 12/2/10

I came in early to check on lane 3. The ball wheel belt was indeed falling off left and right. I changed some of the lips on the upper left and right side guide rollers, these were the reason the belt kept coming off. It ran the rest of the night and seemed fine.

I also reconnected and the wires on Skeeball 3, and taped the shit out of them, if handled correctly, they should stay intact.

Aside from all of that, it was a smooth the night. The lanes has quite of bit of use, and not a lot of problems. A turn around pan jam, a fallen off belt and...well...that is about it. Until tomorrow, Highball

Name: Kristin

Date: 12/1

Problems with lanes:
3 - Agghhhh, I thought the day's of 3's ball wheel belt problems were over but it seems they just lay dormant until now. It kept popping off on the left side, only did it a few times. After the first time I put it back on, it was fine for 2 hours and then popped off again. After that, it was only 20 minutes before the next time. I put it back on. I suspect it is the completely disintegrated ball wheel guide lip that is the problem. It needs to be replaced or I fear this will happen more frequently now that it's in a sad state of disrepair.

4& 5- Deck jams! Just a couple

8 - A few deck jams.

Skeeball 3 refuses to keep its wires attached to itself. The nerve.

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.