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I've spoken to my dad - that's him in the photo wearing red jacket and cool beard - and I can confirm that unfortunately there are no manuals etc in the Jamieson family vaults!! Just a thought?? Do you have any way of contacting Laurie Binns family, I know he had a lot to do with the design side, m...

Both the Limelite & Koppo have a payout cup below the coin slide on the front of the machines, but I am sure that if you asked for either with a sweet payout it could have been done as a special....

pennymachines wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2019 1:52 pm How (and what) does Limelite pay out? No sweet hooper visible.

well done Mr P........ I was talking about
"I do like the payout mechs that roll your candy wins across the playfield"

cait001 wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2019 1:20 pm Were these machines at all popular in their time?

They were very popular at the time, with ww2 sweet rationing going on into the 1950s a packet of Polos was a big pull for your penny.

This last post just jogged my memory I worked on some Koppo machines at the same time as the Limelite machines, sadly the only photo I could find was the Limelite's & Koppo's stacked in a pile ready to start work on them....

Good luck with finding a wiring diagram, I never could... You are correct in saying they were made by Shields of Brid. I worked on a couple a few years ago, and as far as I can remember they were run from a transformer, 6 volts for the lights and I think??? about 50 volts for the relays and selector...

Hi Jerry, just found this on my hard drive, not sure if it is good enough to print from ..... but it might help
you can flip the triangle photo for r/h side image.

Not sure the nail should be there??? Won't be helping matters...

Sounds like a stepper motor to me ??

Stuart, just for clarification did you mean Deano's motor has been swapped at some time or the 10rpm one I posted? Also just to get a better understanding of the jargon, I understand what you say about 'synchronous' motors being constant speed but the synchronous motor on ebay you mention says 'spe...