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Post by scott on Oct 31, 2008 14:25:22 GMT -5
I'm from mid west and frustrated because
I been trying find duckpin pin setters for
last 10 years with no luck finding them.
I like build a new duckpin bowling house
but if can't find equipment there be no
new house and real shame if can't happen.
Thanks
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Post by tonersoprano on Nov 1, 2008 18:41:04 GMT -5
I feel your pain. I live here in Phoenix and I am forced to bowl in my driveway. Respotting pins by hand is good exercise though. The weather is cooling off so it's nice to outside bowling again. Duckpin bowling works well for "Driveway Bowling", the balls are smaller and so are the pins. I'm not seeing a lot from manufacturers like Brunswick and AMF. They offer "Min-Bowl" and "Route 66" bowl. I like bowling with no strings attached.
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Post by James on Nov 24, 2008 11:43:05 GMT -5
I too have been looking for duckpin equipment. Pinsetters, ball returns etc. I was told to check with Norton Steeger Bowling Co. in Cedar Rapids, IA. At the time I was told to wait till their machine was finished, but now I can't find them at all. I was hoping to build a new duckpin house, but now will be thinking of opening a candle pin house. With Duck Pin disappearing on the East Coast, its too bad that else where in the country you can go to play duckpin.
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Post by urbie on Nov 24, 2008 13:23:17 GMT -5
I feel your pain. I live here in Phoenix and I am forced to bowl in my driveway. Respotting pins by hand is good exercise though. The weather is cooling off so it's nice to outside bowling again. Duckpin bowling works well for "Driveway Bowling", the balls are smaller and so are the pins. I'm not seeing a lot from manufacturers like Brunswick and AMF. They offer "Min-Bowl" and "Route 66" bowl. I like bowling with no strings attached. Route 66 bowl -- that'd be Starlite Lanes up in Flagstaff, where I used to work, before moving back to the East Coast! :-D Urb |
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Post by Paul Conklin on Jan 5, 2009 0:21:59 GMT -5
This winter I'm levelling an area in my backyard to build two lanes. My driveway isn't long enough for the 80 feet or so needed for a straight shot. I'll build them out of pressure-treated lumber with recycled laminate flooring for the lane surface. By the time spring rolls around, there will be walls, a roof and ventilation. I'm pretty sure I'd get much more use out of this than, say, a hot tub. ;D
On a slightly different note, I'm sure enough of know a pretty good array of retired engineers, metal fabricators and entrepreneurs to commission a joint project for our respective markets. Rather than waiting for the cows to come home on their own, we need to rattle the feedcan, ring the dinner bell and send out the herd dogs.
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Post by herb on Apr 28, 2009 8:51:18 GMT -5
sounds like a great idea if some company would manufacture pinsetters would be a great start and get duckpins into new markets like nags head , north carolina Another thing is getting more people to join leagues. I did find duckpins in portsmouth ,va so now I can bowl again after 14 years since leaving maryland
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