Complete Care Guide for Your Bowling
With Imply® Bowling, you get the best combination of high quality, reduced maintenance and lower operating costs. Check out below the essential care to make your bowling always amazing 🎳✅
It’s no secret that in order to obtain greater performance, durability and useful life from any equipment, the best way is to always keep cleaning and maintenance up to date. Likewise, bowling requires care to prolong its lifespan and provide a more attractive appearance over time. Moreover, these precautions help to increase customer satisfaction and recurrence.
Failure to regularly maintain your Bowling Alleys can put your profitability and reputation at stake, in addition to compromising your customers’ satisfaction. Can you imagine having a full house and the lanes stop working due to lack of proper maintenance? See this simulation of how one lane stopped due to lack of maintenance can impact your revenue:
Periodic Maintenance
Periodic maintenance is critical for your bowling alley to perform consistently over the long term. It’s important to keep in mind that bowling alley parts require different levels of care. Therefore, the best solution is to always be attentive to details. Do the exercise of frequently checking your Bowling Alleys. This will allow you to have more information and see details, to ensure the necessary care for its full operation. Check out some tips below to help keep your Bowling Alleys in perfect condition and performing at their best. For more details, see the product manual.
Important: Whenever you carry out maintenance, disconnect the equipment from the electrical network to avoid accidents. Use protection equipments, read the product’s label and manuals, follow all their instructions and use the proper tools.
Bowling Ball Maintenance
✓ Daily: Wipe the balls with a microfiber towel soaked in alcohol. Then use a soft cloth to dry the ball.
✓ Weekly: Clean the balls with a damp cloth with 400 degreaser solution. Then use a soft cloth to dry the ball. Then finish off by applying automotive polishing wax.
Maintenance of Bowling Pins
✓ Biweekly: Use the Imply® Pin Cleaner Concentrate, following the instructions in the product manual.
✓ Quarterly: Rotate the pins, changing the pins from back to front: change pin 1 to pin 10, pin 2 to 9, and so on.
Approach and Lane Maintenance
✓ Twice a week: Clean the Approach with the Approach Imply® Cleaner Concentrate, then apply the Approach Imply® Protective Film, following the instructions in the product manual. Clean the lane with Imply® Bowling Alley Cleaner Concentrate, and lubricate it with Imply® Alley Cleaning Gel.
✓ Biweekly: Clean the gutters, return cover and bumpers using the Imply® Concentrated Pin Cleaner, following the instructions in the product manual.
✓ Monthly: Check the integrity of the wood and bumpers, analyze if there are any screws or areas that need maintenance. Clean the ball return tracks.
LCD Maintenance
✓ Twice a week: Clean the screens (Player Terminal, Management Center, Lane Reservation, Lane LCDs) using a flannel moistened with isopropyl alcohol. Carefully clean the metallic structure of the Players Terminal with a soft damp towel and neutral soap, taking care not to wet the electronic parts. Afterwards, dry with a soft towel.
Maintenance of the Pinsetter, Ball Accelerator and Ball Elevator Machines
✓ Daily: Review and tension pin strings. Replace them whenever necessary. Check screws and retighten as needed. Remove condensed water from the compressor.
✓ Weekly: Check clutch, spindle and gear lubrication, and adjust if necessary.
✓ Biweekly: Clean these equipments with 400 degreaser solution. Check the clutch and belts and adjust if necessary. Remove excess grease with a cloth dampened with alcohol and apply spray grease.
✓ Monthly: Clean the compressor and clean or replace the compressor filter. Check the pulleys and lubricate if necessary. Check sensors and test solenoids. Clean chains and spindles, lubricate and adjust.
✓ Every 18 months: Change belts.
Gutter Maintenance
✓ Daily: Use a soft, dry cloth to remove dust that can accumulate in the gutters.
✓ Weekly: Clean the gutters with desolating solution.
✓ Biweekly: Clean the gutters, return cover and bumpers using the Imply® Concentrated Pin Cleaner.
What is the difference between original and parallel parts?
Our engineering teams and state-of-the-art equipment are dedicated to ensuring that our parts always exceed your expectations. With a focus on durability, produced with high strength materials, original Imply® parts remain like new for many years of continuous use (when cleaning and maintenance care recommendations are followed). Using original parts is very important as it extends the life of your bowling alley. In addition, original parts have a factory warranty.
On the other hand, the use of generic parts is risky, as they may contain different materials and formats that damage the equipment and affect the life of your Bowling Alley. Parallel parts do not usually offer warranty, and may present problems in a short period of time after purchase. If they are defective, you will not be able to claim a replacement, as the durability of these parts is shorter than the originals. Likewise, using non-original replacement parts voids the manufacturer’s warranty, which means risks, and your company could end up responsible for the cost of replacing other parts of the equipment, as well as lost productivity.
Count on the quality assurance that comes exclusively from the original manufacturer.
We are here to help!
Get in touch with our experts. We’ll help you make sure you have everything you need to keep your bowling alley in top condition. For more information, visit: https://imply.com/engb/technical-support