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I'm a relative newb to this game but I have always experienced that when Hammershite comes into play things go badly wrong. Great for old garden gates, makes me nervous when people contemplate using it on anything precious.

Ah Badpenny, I've been praying you would come on here and help me out! Much appreciated. So, there's definitely a spring missing. I'm just amazed that something as simple as a pin can activate the beasty. It must be extremely fine to get the pin length or spring tension correct. Can you see anything...

Hi guys. I've got my second bandit, I think it's a Sega, you experts might think it's something else. I paid £50 for it from a private advert, it had 350 sixpences in its original cash box, lock present, no key, so a quick jaunt to the old lock smith to sort that out. History :- Machine been at a re...

Guys, im contemplating going for a bit of a wreck of a jubilee on ebay which will need cosmetics to its outer casing. Can i just ask you guys about repainting. How would you go about repainting, would you? 1) remove paint to bare metal and take to a paintshop to do the business using closely sympath...

Hey that's a good idea - give me some time and I will get down there and film these machines for you. I remember when I was 16, that's 26 years ago going down there on my Vespa scooter, and regularly being banned for using reel strips to aid my winnings on the modern machines when they nudged. I'm o...

And there is one of these Streets Wheel Em Ins still in use where I live in an arcade in Pagham, near Bognor Regis, West Sussex, England working on the new 2p coin. Pagham arcade is tiny, near the seafront, been there for 40 years. If you didnt know it was there you would miss it. They also have a r...

I was a complete newbie on here and these guys gave me all the answers. I have a jubilee Mk1 'Silver jubilee' double jackpot 6D machine, since seeing advice its now fully complete and working. It took me years to take the plunge, i just sat back on Ebay, waited for a bandit to come up near to home (...

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Nice item, looks very interesting and in good condition ! Thought it might interest somebody. Id like to go for it but a bit far for me. Malc

You could try posting on a German site, using freetranslations.com I've used it for communicating with French, German and Spanish ebayers and is surprising how you get by, they sort of get the idea. Just use as many simple English words as you can when you use it. I will try it for you. "Can yo...

Oop, yes an Aristocrat Arcadian. Now my wife keeps moaning at me saying that inches count, im not sure what shes on about ! OKAY, sorry, imperial inches are absolutely fine, furlongs, yards, pounds and ounces, quarts, any help greatly appreciated. Classic machine.... ha ha, well, the arcadian is a c...

Any Artistocrat owners out there who could kindly supply me with the full dimensions of an Aristocrat Carousel or equivalent case please?? (this is the base of the machine from front to back, or back to front if you are that way inclined. I'm lining up for a second bandit and have found some dead sp...

Badpenny, I will take your word for it. It sounds as if it's a bit like having an old MGB GT with plastic bumpers.

Anybody going to have a pop at it then?? I'm not, but if it was local I would. Perhaps we should have a whip around out of curiosity to see how the thing ticks inside.

MILLS ONE ARMED BANDIT VINTAGE FRUIT MACHINE

Anybody know what this Mills is all about, it's electro mechanical by the looks of it and has an 'award when lit' light on the area where the glass jackpot should be? Mysterious, can't say I've seen one on ebay before, thanks malc

Thanks BP, glad it sounds okay. The 3 oranges, yep, i worked out the probablity, checked my horoscope and it suggested at the time it was 4 to 1 odds for pulling off 3 oranges.

Hi all. I am the newb poster who picked up their first bandit on ebay for £150.00. Thanks for all your advice on getting my jubilee going. I have now had the locks repaired using the original locks. Following the advice of badpenny, an old school locksmith fitted keys to the Yale Locks, and fixed th...

Ah badpenny, reliable as ever and coming to my aide. Thanks matey, i have actually put the minutest bit of 3 in 1 on the clock mech, it does sound better. I havent investigated the coin slides, there was one spring off to the lower slide at the back of the machine (this is the cherry payout slide fo...

Dear all. My jubilee bandit project is going well. I have fixed the pump thanks to badpenny, all mechanisms are working, all payouts great, coin feed perfect etc. I have located an old style lock smith who has made a key for the original cash tray lock and is fixing the main cabinet lock. All is goo...

What a great story!. Carboots, ah the once fruitful pastime whereby bargains could be found. Nowadays its full of dealers selling and buying. Christ, i even had one cheeky son of a *&^% open my car door to rummage through when i was queuing up once to sell. What do we take to carboots these days...

Well, the mighty Badpenny solved my problem identifying it was a mills pump in the machine. I set to work, the bleed valve was filthy, the rear of the pump was covered in orange foam, the piston was grimey and sticky. After a lot of cleaning and patience and a tiny bit of 3in1 oil on the handle fixi...