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badpenny wrote: ↑Sat Aug 25, 2018 3:51 pm Your photo is of the dog and anvil.

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Is the dog piece upside down? Either it is or mine is! I thought the longest part was at the bottom.

Maybe I should have said "how many coins" are paid according to the cherries rather than "how many cherries" according to the coins paid out. Many machines had their awards "adjusted" and one way of finding out the original winning combinations would be to examine the ...

I just found an old piece of aluminium at my work and remembered my machine needed the window surround. It’s a bit rough yet but looks much better for the moment till I will find an original. Lately there were not so many posts over here, so I think I need to contribute. Greetings. Your machine loo...

This appeared briefly a week ago, a working full size model for a vintage sort of slot machine. I use vintage in the truest sense as Franklin was Mint who made many and ghastly item I believe made this......someone snapped it up for £100 :o https://pennymachines.co.uk/Forum/download/file.php?id=285...

* Topic merged - Site Admin. It's been a while since we had a candidate for ugliest slot - this has to be close (now that definitely is a "dagger handle". cp slot.jpg (I couldn't find the usual post we put these in Mr P, can you move it for me please) * A variation on the Mills "Roma...

Clunks 1,2 and 3 rely on the slide bar moved by the clock. Clunk 4 is the support arm holding the V Fingers back, again operated by the clock. Clunk 5 again is the same slide bar 1, 2 and 3 rely on when it releases the slide bundle. The only way I can see to increase the time gap between 4 and 5 is...

Hello Badpenny. I may have missed something here but I assumed the law permitting operation of gaming machines came into force in January 1961. As for the currency query, the UK maximum win was 12 pennies cash or 5 shillings in kind. I was indeed implying that the fairground sharks were cutting dow...

Well Coppinpr, if you take at this link http://www.libertygames.co.uk/store/one_arm_bandits/original-one-arm-bandits/mills-golden-nugget-bandit/ you might rub your hands with glee if you reach what they are selling them for. OMG, £1269 for THAT? Cherries on the 3rd reel? A lemon on the 1st reel san...

It also depends on what the currency is! The first Mills machines arrived in this country (officially) in 1961 and the machines would have had the usual payouts of jackpot (about 100), bells (18), plums (14), oranges (10), 2 cherries (5), 1 cherry (2). When the fairground operators got them up and ...

What about a "String up Mussolini" game? It could have been exported to Italy just before they changed sides because they did not want to lose! Somebody lost out on that one! A game I do remember was a Allwin style flickball machine named "Our Allied Forces" and it had a row of ...

Jenollte made a clear liquid rust remover in my teenage days but that has not been seen for many years. It's probably become "dangerous" like creosote and a few other products. They might still stock a pink gel but I really want a potion that turns rust into a silver appearance. Who can h...

Just to make it even more random, Mills jackpots were adjustable as to the number of coins they hold, giving the operator another way to increase the profits. :!?!: Likewise the Sega jackpots. The adjustment was made by screwing in or out the back plate but you had to take the jackpot out to do it!

There was a laughing sailor at South Parade Pier in the 1960s. I think it spent some time at a retro arcade in Ocean Village, Southampton. Could this be the same one? Another collection of vintage machines can be found at Bursledon Brickworks Museum which is located at Swanwick. They work on old pe...

The usual problem with printed colours is that the inks don't fade at the same speed. Yellow fades fastest while magenta only fades slightly. Cyan in most cases seems to be immune from fading. Look in shop windows at displays that have been there for months and you will notice a blue tint caused by...

*update* So I found pre 1992 coins and all get accepted and then the game light shows but still can't pull on the arm unless I click the solenoid myself. Sounds like the solenoid is playing up. Check the feed wire to that solenoid. Also, if you have a circuit diagram, check everything possible rega...