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thfonz98

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new pins....maybe plastic?
« on: October 11, 2004, 02:34:25 PM »
My local house(amf house) recently(today) replaced all their pins...i was in the first league to bowl them. Man are they louder and kinda sound like the twister pins that were at reno this year(as far as i can remember since i bowled in feb.)

not having bowled while knowing that the pins were new i have a question to ask.....

Do brand new pins sound significantly louder or do we have the dreaded "light hits good/buried pocket hits = bad(4-9s)" plastic pins?

just wondering....
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Re: new pins....maybe plastic?
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2004, 11:10:41 PM »
Brand new pins are way louder. They have a nice "cruch" to them when hit. They're also much more difficult to knock over as the bottoms are still very flat.

Hope you're not bowling with Twisters, Twisters are garbage. You can probably just ask the counter what type of pins are in the racks.
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thfonz98

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Re: new pins....maybe plastic?
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2004, 11:21:57 PM »
i forgot to ask when we bowled...and ill just wait till tomorrow and ask the lane guy....they did have that nice crush sound to them

plenty of 5s left,pins sliding and staying up, one sour apple in the league today too(i only left 1 of the fives, and saw the rest)
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Re: new pins....maybe plastic?
« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2004, 01:43:44 AM »
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Does AMF make the Twister pins?


I could be wrong, but I thought the Twisters were made in Germany.

As an aside, has anyone bowled on Twisters anywhere other than at an ABC tournament?
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thfonz98

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Re: new pins....maybe plastic?
« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2004, 01:51:40 AM »
twister pins website(i guess): http://www.bowling-pin.com/
or try: http://www.lanedynamx.com/pages/twisterpin.html

as i wasnt thinking about who made the pins at the alley...ill look at the logos tomorrow...

i intended to get general info about how new pins sound/act with this post btw AND that i hate twisters
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thfonz98

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« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2004, 02:27:58 AM »
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IT depends on what brand of pin they are using.  The easiest way to tell the manufactures of bowling pins is by looking at the logos and the neck markings.  BRunswick Pins Tradiotally have a Red or flourecent ornace crown around the neck and a Blue or orange B on the belly.  Amf pins have red stripes on the neck and the aflite 2 line has a Red Triangle that says AMF in the middle and then on top of the triangel it says AMFliteII.  Vulcan Pins have a Vshaped logog on the front of them.  Amf also makes the AMFlite Pinnacle pins and those have a pyramid on the fron for the logo and they also have a black base on the bottom and the abc wibc approval logo is in black on the back side of the pin.  Twister pins which are all synthetic pins have a grey staggered rings around the nec and say twister on the belly. Hope this helps.
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Re: new pins....maybe plastic?
« Reply #6 on: October 12, 2004, 10:07:19 AM »
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As an aside, has anyone bowled on Twisters anywhere other than at an ABC tournament?


I've had them in a couple of tournaments and our local six-lane center put them in a few years ago.
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« Reply #7 on: October 12, 2004, 10:24:03 AM »
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As an aside, has anyone bowled on Twisters anywhere other than at an ABC tournament?


Yes, we used them in our state tourney last year as well.  It was my first experience with them.  I bowled pretty well, mostly by keeping the ball light into the pocket.  The guys who buried the ball had tons of carry issues.

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Re: new pins....maybe plastic?
« Reply #8 on: October 13, 2004, 01:12:14 AM »
Some Brunswick pins have the two red stripes around the neck instead of the crown.
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« Reply #9 on: October 13, 2004, 02:50:23 AM »
yeah amfs and our lane machine is messed up(bad wiks and whatever cleans the backends is messed up also, as stated by the night manager as he checked it out tonight)

oh joy

looks like ill be stuck with my v2 particle and power diesel for the next few weeks
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« Reply #10 on: October 14, 2004, 01:31:17 AM »
"...AMF plastic coated, wooden pins, they'll break in in about a month..."
...and last longer and score better than most any other pin.
AMF makes probably the best pin on the market, used by the large majority of centers worldwide.

Check out the forums on www.bowltech.com and you'll find AMF pins have many fans.
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