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Hey TreeFrog, I didn't think the paint was too gloopy or thick, just a little too glossy, it actually looks like thin enough paint but it's the bumps of the unpolished casting showing through. What's interesting to me is if you look you can see the outline where the gold award window would be. They ...

Very nice work! This is the way I like to restore them as well - I call it the shotgun method, clean everything. Then when you finally do put power up, there is usually only small issues to deal with and the machine stays working for a long time.

Jingle, can't say I've ever seen that color combo before on any Bryans machines. I have a wacky Clock clone that I must send a pic in one day. Pretty sure it uses a Bryans mech but all new case and castings. Not sure why anybody would go to the trouble? Though now that I just typed that out aloud, i...

Nice info to see. Just a week ago I offered my Retreeva to a friend in Aust for a lot less than that! But he never got back, luckily for me. Was not happy about parting with it anyway just needed some quick cash. Finishing off a few other pieces right now to part with instead.

Though funnily enough we do have a lesser version here in Perth believe it or not! Called Devilles Pad, one of the few places I happily go. Only it doesn't have that amazing exterior sadly, or quite as bizarre an interior. The owner started a Tiki bar called Hula Bula here first which is tiny and bu...

Was just looking through my Clown and Bajazzo tokens and came across this one of interesting numerology. Instantly made me think of the famous "Cabaret De L'Enfer" (Cabaret of Hell) in Paris. I can easily imagine a customised Diablo style clown catcher being operated there paying out these...

I could easily find counter space for this. The Yanks certainly knew how to make attractive looking machines.

Nice work! I must be getting old in my old age. Will see what I can come up with.

My theory is that the buyer had inside knowledge - he knew that this was actually made of solid gold bullion, smelted during the war by a Jewish operator, disguised as a lead printing plate, and smuggled out to the UK.

I love the feedback left by the buyer - "AMAZING ITEM!!THANKYOU SO SO MUCH!!++++++A+ CREDIT TO EBAY!!++++++++++++++++++++" Haha, rarely does anybody leave such "Amazing" feedback. And if the buyer was so happy with the printing block why didn't he make a great offer and buy all t...

Thanks Slotalot, I've done similar with a French crane I restored to work the turntable. There are special curved castings in the viewers that the mercury switches attach to, so I guess if I can't find any originals I could heat and bend some plastic tubing to replicate the shape.

Since i was totally underwhelmed with the response to my Shakespeare fortune cards query I decided to give you guys another chance - can't be any worse :#: Just about to restart some unfinished restorations on a batch of Aussie 3D viewers I got years ago. All missing parts but as I already had a com...

Good call Bandito - you can see the small hole right above the jackpot in the upper casting for the mint vendor front to lock in place. But the revamper did a good job as they copied the Watling payout holes in the front casting and cups perfectly.

Very coincidental that the 500 quid high bidder has only bid on one other item recently, a bouncy castle - and what do you know, the printing block seller deals in bouncy castles!!?

And don't get me started about the 15 pound postage charge he's asking for this piece of junk.........

I was wondering about this machine too. I looked through a few books last night and it seems to be related closely to the Watling Lincoln Deluxe. That window to the left of the reels is a future pay feature. And if you look closely there appears to be a small cicular blanked off hole on the bottom r...

I've never worked on a Jennings mech but the case looks an honest machine to me. Without pics of the inner case and mech from all angles only the seller knows how complete it is. He says it runs on 1D.

Just wondering if anyone in the UK has one of these machines? Usually it's called Miniature Baseball but this version was specially made for export to cricket playing nations. Two have turned up in Aust so it seems logical that some made it to Britian. When my friend found this one at a swap meet in...

Glad to help. We once bought an otherwise nice 70's E/M pinball that the owner said he sprayed some kind of contact cleaning shit onto, then shut the playfield and turned the machine on instantly! KaBoom., and the thing went up in flames because the door was open and it burnt for a minute or two. Lo...

Yes, I meant upside-down, though I thought it made sense by what else I said about the image. The sound of the machine guns wasn't supplied by the film, obviously that only sounded when pressing the fire button - the film supplied the sound of the airplanes in dog fight. My guess is, the Mablethorpe...

This is from the manual and shows the stereo imagery that was used in the machine. The film from Mablethrope appears to have been scanned upside down as the vertical index position (black notch) is shown on the left of the image, when it should be on the far right side of the right hand image. And s...