I was wondering if that reset bar has been put in backwards. As it'll never reset the slides after a pay out, or has the bottom slide lost its vertical plate for the bar to push against? You can see where the edge of the bar is grinding out the edge of the top slide. It shouldn't even be able to tou...

Welcome to the dark side.
The beauty of electro mechanicals is often the more you play them the more they free up and improve.

If nobody has already mentioned it ..... take gallons of photos as you unmantle it.
It'll save you stamping your feet when you come to remantling time.

BP

pennymachines wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 22, 2021 1:51 pm

....... the name alluded to the 'hand and eye' coordination (i.e. skill) required to play their games .....

Well Strewth and 'Blige me sideways! I did not know that.

badpenny wrote: ↑ Sun Sep 27, 2020 10:37 pm If possible get the tin with the liquid version and not the aerosol. badpenny wrote: ↑ Sun Feb 21, 2021 3:07 am The one I have in my shed is an aerosol which is a much better idea than dribbling it in. 10:37 PM versus 3:07 AM. J Peterson Time is not on ou...

If possible get the tin with the liquid version and not the aerosol. The one I have in my shed is an aerosol which is a much better idea than dribbling it in. You're confusing me... :-? I exchanged my shares from the liquid to the aerosol product. Dribbling no longer pays the premium. BP :didact:

That looks like the can my old Dad had on the shelf in the shed back in the 60s.
The one I have in my shed is an aerosol which is a much better idea than dribbling it in.

BP

Spent many a week in the summer hols at Paignton BP back in the 1950s/60s, I was probably the snotty nosed lad in short trousers banging the machine whilst you were desperately trying to fix them in the back room. :HaHa: ... I used to wonder what the hell I was going to find, and regularly spent th...

I like the stripe ..... on the right machine. Of course reassembling cases, and chucking mechs back in after the Winter pull down in time for Easter opening was always a last minute job. So, at times it was rare to find (on opening day) a bandit with the correct award card for the reels alongside. A...

Welcome to the forum and congratulations on your purchase. I can't give you suggestions, only opinions. Not necessarily the opinion of a purist, but certainly someone who remembers the atmosphere of old seaside and fairground arcades. If you find the stark vicious light of LEDs preferable over the w...