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And there's enough left of the escalator to complete it with a few spare parts, if desired.

It would be great to see a larger scan of that postcard. I don't know the machine, but think it might be German, because the style and name suggest it's not English. Compare it to Paul Lochmann's 1908 Hab Acht! HabAcht.jpg Rafal means nothing in English (or German) as far as I know but, as a Polish ...

The escalator 'escalates' coins from the coin acceptor towards the payout hopper while displaying several of them on the front of the machine. This was to deter players from using slugs, washers etc. Components of the escalator on the above machine are missing. This is very common on bandits adapted...

Agreed - but it could have started life with a steel case. The locks look new.

Wooden-cased Firman Pushapenny from recent Dutch Auction (unsold).

An addition to the Calendar, courtesy of Sweetmeats: - Galeries de Chartres are holding this year's sale of Automata, Mechanical Music, Slot Machines etc. on 21st of May.

To describe the spring you're after, you need the diameter of the spring wire (measured with a gauge). To complicate matters, different metals have different tensile properties: https://www.thespringstore.com/standard-spring-wire-diameter-sizes.html If you don't fancy making your own (using the guid...

sutty wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 9:40 pm Quoting myself here, because my earlier photograph was edited, by someone...

Mea culpa. Image showing new and old spring restored to post. Apologies.