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Ok, let's try and clear up the confusion. The difference between 36V DC and 70V AC can only be explained by a measurement error - the 70V is wrong. 36V would be just right if the transformer is 24V AC, which it probably is. The delay heater coil is in parallel with the bell. The low resistance betwe...

50 microfarads, that ain't much. 250V, huh. That was a common electrolytic capacitor in the days of valve radios, which is when the game was made, so I guess they took what was laying around. The ripple will be horrid. I answered your PM and recommended 1000 microfarads. You will find modern capacit...

The original circuit could be simplified. It is possible that they cut out the start relay and run relay on this model. The sticking bell is, yes, a failure of one of the thermal timers that needs to open to step the payout. But wait! It may not be the thermal relay. It could be insufficient voltage...

LOL, obviously there are no "official" anythings in this field, but a gent like Mr Bailey, who has been involved mostly at the showman end for 60 years, may very well be the most knowledgeable person still living. The measure of a researcher, though, is in his publications, and Mr Bailey i...

They probably came out of a Nevada casino. Nevada regulations said the prize amounts must be shown to the player before the game, which ruled out the self-filling jackpots since it was impossible to know how much was in one.

Well I don't mean to be discouraging, and like I said, I don't know what the UK market will stand. I know you guys over there are used to paying arm+leg for everything, and I recall the VAT has to be included in the price (over here the tax is added on at the cash register), so that makes the actual...

Ostrich meat tastes horrible - like gamey turkey, but dry and hard to swallow. I had an ostrich burger once in California. Never again. I wouldn't feed it to my dog. Back on topic, I've been following the thread but haven't joined in yet. It's been a long time since I was in Britain so I'm out of to...

I had to come back and rave a bit about these games. They are dead on accurate in every detail - what a splendid effort. For people who don't know how to play these machines, you don't just play one coin or credit. Every credit you play can step up the features and payouts - may do so - each coin is...

Tip 'o the hat to Gary The Golfer for rewinding the coil. I was going to suggest it before I saw that you'd done it. I've done it myself. I once bought a job lot of uniselectors on Ebay and when they showed up they turned out to be SIX VOLTS . I had no idea that six volt uniselectors even existed. T...

Just about all the claims about the Bell Fruit Gum co in the top post are wrong. There never was a bell fruit gum company, nor for that matter a Bell Fruit company until one was started up in England in the 1960s.* Mills started putting a chewing gum vendor on the side of their machines around 1910 ...

They were gambling machines, first and last. They are the reason why all replay pinballs, even the innocuous flipper types, were banned in cities like New York. I have seen someone rack up hundreds of replays on a Bingo and been paid off in cash by the barkeeper. Curse you, Jones the Garage! I went ...

This may be of assistance to you. bally hold circuit.jpg Wire colors: 30 - yellow 70 - orange 63-2 - brown-yellow-blue 25-1 - blue-white-red 98-1 - gray-black-red 14-2 - red-green-blue 52 - white-blue 56 - white-brown 57 - white-orange 74 - orange-green Not shown in this diagram, the normally open s...

All the Money Honeys ever made by Bally had a hopper when they left the factory. The slide conversions were made for the late-1960s "1/- cash, 5/- tokens" scheme, two sixpences or a Gold Award token. Showmen liked this because you could only exchange your 5/- token for their ninepenny plas...

It's a Sir Prize, a really early Money Honey variety. Lift-off door hinges and no metal lining in the case makes it 1966 or thereabouts. The motor thing with the yellow knob is the random hold switch.

These machines clean up nicely. This one used to look vaguely similar to yours.

It depends when they were made. The 1951 Johnson Act required that all the major parts had to be serial numbered, and most legal gambling jurisdictions in the US required serial numbers for tracking and tax purposes.

Almost without exception, these conversions started life as a Sir Prize or Jolly Joker. I'd have to see the door hinges to be sure but the plastic panel across the front is a dead giveaway - it conceals the holes for the Hold buttons. The hopper has been taken out and replaced with two slides on the...

I had that "delayed cherry payout" on my Aristocrat. It took five to fifteen seconds to drop. The reason was someone had oiled or greased the slides.

Good information on the flasher things, now we have it for future reference. If your wire is 42 gauge it's about 110 ohms a foot. If you can even get a foot of it wound on that tiny thing without the turns shorting, which I doubt, it would draw about 1/3 amp and burn 18 watts. The original at 43 ohm...

That machine is in truly terrible condition - the glass is beyond repair and all the works have been removed. 350 pounds? Tell yer wot, guv, gimme fifty an I'll haul it to the dump f'yer. I do like the graphics, though - "9/- or 35np". If the glass wasn't totally ruined it would make a nic...

slotalot, do you happen to know what wire gauge (thickness) your nichrome is? When these coils are switched into circuit they get 40-50 volts across them, so they need a respectable resistance, probably at least 1000 ohms. I have no idea what the resistance of the original coil was - perhaps somebod...