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- Wed Jan 13, 2021 10:03 pm
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: Help for a TV show needed
- Replies: 15
- Views: 514
Re: Help for a TV show needed
From personal experience, many times over, my advice is simply steer clear. Film and TV companies are a total pain in the arse and are invariably absolute time wasters.
- Sun Dec 06, 2020 9:36 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Allwin lock, lost key
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1927
Re: Allwin lock, lost key
I should imagine he's got it open by now 

- Tue Nov 10, 2020 11:10 pm
- Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
- Topic: Boland Black Beauty, Screen Stars, Brooklands, White City...
- Replies: 175
- Views: 60660
Re: Boland Black Beauty, Screen Stars, Brooklands, White City...
Have to admit, when I saw Brigham's post I wondered how a Little Duke would work as a Boland single-reeler (or indeed a three-reeler)I don't know if you're talking about a different "Little Duke".......

- Sun Oct 25, 2020 11:35 pm
- Forum: Auction Community
- Topic: Spitfire Allwin
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2642
Re: Spitfire Allwin
As TF has noted, this is a recreation. Honourable as it may be, it's not a Spitfire. The strange thing is, that the maker of this machine should have called it Spitfire, which were actually quite small allwins. The dimensions given in the listing on ebay would seem more akin to a Defiant. Picture be...
- Sun Oct 25, 2020 11:06 pm
- Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
- Topic: Marooned slots
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1467
Re: Marooned slots
By coincidence, my birthday is 24th October.
Weird to think I was born just as you were getting married
Weird to think I was born just as you were getting married

- Sun Aug 23, 2020 12:24 am
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Samson Slick missing part ?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 932
Re: Samson Slick missing part ?
Hello Pete. OK, I own up - I was the guy you bought it from :woops: . The missing part is a short piece of copper-coloured wire, similar to that arrowed in green. It has a fine thread, which I'm guessing will be either 8 or 10 BA (the same thread as the wire that I told you had a missing nut) and is...
- Thu Aug 06, 2020 4:59 pm
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: Not an Auction..
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1615
Re: Not an Auction..
Well, I've finally updated the website. I've moved things around a bit so that all sold items are on the first page, although due to the time it's taken to compile the new pages, there are a couple of items there that have since sold. I'll be in Brighton three days a week for the next month, so it s...
- Sun Jul 19, 2020 6:17 pm
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: Great Yarmouth Penny Arcade pictures
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4781
Re: Great Yarmouth Penny Arcade pictures
I missed the original 2015 thread, which would have been around the time I bought this little allwin from Mervyn, which I've had operating down at Brighton until recently. I can confirm that it is a BMCo, which has been 'Wondered' - it has had a Wonders 'roof' added, plus of course the backflash. Fo...
- Tue Jul 14, 2020 10:43 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Quinto Grip Tester identified
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1945
Re: Grip tester internals help
I know this is too late, and of absolutely no use whatsoever, but when I saw the first post, I recognised this gripper as a machine I once owned - it was I who put it in the Coventry auction. As far as I can recall, the mechanism was complete and working, although I think there was one part that cou...
- Fri Jul 10, 2020 10:38 pm
- Forum: Discoveries
- Topic: So I might have over-shopped....
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3118
Re: So I might have over-shopped....
24 Winning Cups is by Oliver Whales Actually, they're Wonders. Full list below - those that I've left blank are Allwin Deluxe type machines, which could be of German or British origin. 1. Whales 2. 3. BMCo 4. Whales 5. BMCo 6. 7. BMCo 8. No picture 9. Whales 10. Whales 11. Wonders 12. Whales 13. Wo...