Ball Bowlers

[Guest]

Hello,

Is anyone familiar with the 1950's and 60's ball bowling machines? I went on this site: http://www.stl-bb.com and they do restorations of these old machines.

Is anyone familiar with what I should look for as good restoration in a machine for sale?

 

[cfh]

Yes you should go to http://marvin3m.com/bowl or http://marvin3m.com/top/top8.htm or http://www.pinballninja.com/?page_id=11 for more information on ball bowlers and repair of them. The 1956 model you are looking at is a small ball bowler, using 3" balls and has no gutters. A lot of people prefer the larger 4.5" ball, and games with gutters (and even multiple games, basically 1962 to 1973.) See the above websites for more info.