Brunswick Gold Crown 2000 Coin-Op

[Louie]

Howdy out there in Pool Land,
Back here in NM, our American Legion has an 8-ft (that's bar-table speak for 44x88) Brunswick Gold Crown 2000 coin-op table. It has an onboard (simple) computer that controls how whitey is returned and locks out whitey after 15 object balls are caputured. Has microswitches/trip levers & circuit board to do this. Anyone know if the GC 2000 used a magnetic sensor/cue ball or the overly-complicated optical sensor for the cue ball?
Ours was bought mid-late 1980' and the cue ball return mechanism has bitten the dust. It's got an option for the 'grapefruit' cue ball (2-3/8) but that's not something we/or league likes to use.
The original cue ball was lost long ago.
Any info much appreciated.
Cheers,
Los Alamos Slim/Louie
PS: One can find a Johnny Kling hit on the Bruswick website, but nothing for Gold Crown 2000. What's up there? Seems it has been replaced by Brunswick-Valley Metro w/mag Cougar cue ball. I suspect GC 200 was mag also, but not sure.

[Rich R.]

Why not just call Brunswick and see what they can tell you? They may even have the parts you need to fix it.

If memory serves me right, this table uses the same technology as the Diamond Smart table i.e. an optical sensor.

That being the case, the optical sensor works with a normal cueball. Any normal cue ball.

Take a spare cue ball (non magnetic) and try it.


Eric

[Fran Crimi]

Eric, do you perchance watch Iron Chef (If memory serves you right)?

(Sorry for the hijack)