Hello Tommo, Your replacement arm is not quite the right shape. It has too large an opening around the cog and it needs to be just right and only just clear the teeth on the edges it makes contact with, so that when one side is making contact the other is fractionally clear and vice versa, so each d...

john t peterson wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 02, 2020 1:28 pm

I'm hiding in my bunker at least until tomorrow. If the Orange Idiot wins again, I'll be looking for a Brit to sponsor my immigration application.

Come on Joe!

Very nice job, definitely worth saving.

Seems I was one that pushed it up quite nicely at the end. I was in two minds about buying to operate it, the main reason being anything with steering wheel/s that move things even when not playing the machine are a magnet to kids riving the wheel/s from side to side, much like Steer-a-Ball. I think...

is your niece good at bartering?

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I should imagine it will take money in an arcade, unlike a clock, as its looks fun and easy to play

very nice !

The Flippa Winner has a spinning paddle wheel under the coin entry that fires each coin upwards onto the shelves and then the paddles push coins forward and off the shelves. This new version can be converted to virtually any coin, but it is a cumbersome machine and takes up a lot of space, and there...

As a child I used to go with my parents to the Mechanical Memories Museum in Brighton, and I have fantastic memories of this, and understand it closed a couple of years ago. More recently I’ve been to the Merrivale Old Penny Arcade in Great Yarmouth, which I really enjoyed and brought back some gre...