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I have written to Steve Hunt giving him seven days to refund my AAM subscription along with my expenses, a total of £282. If he does not respond, refunding my claim in full I am going to start a County Court action against him and/or his business. County Court action is nowhere near as daunting as i...

Personally I dislike WD40 other than for a "quick fix" and always use light machine oil for lubrication of bandits.

The lightest wipe with a piece of kitchen towel is enough and the general rule I apply is "if you can see oil, then you have used too much".

My argument if questioned about selling a vintage machine would be that since it was not capable of operating on legal tender or anything that could be construed as a token, that it was by definition "scrap". Out of interest, does anyone know if a private vendor has ever been approached by...

I may be wrong- in fact it is my default position - but I thought I had read somewhere that machines operating on a stake of no more than 2p were exempt from this legislation?

Well, I possibly don't understand the law then. I can understand that an Allwin could maybe be described as a game of skill, but a one-armed-bandit or a Bryan's clock couldn't possibly be and yet I see plenty on eBay being sold by private individuals. I'm not finding fault with your position here re...

I'm curious to know about the legality of buying or selling a machine which does not reach its reserve at auction. Obviously it does not become illegal ever to sell such a machine, but what is the time or distance from the auction at which such a sale is not illegal? (This topic has been edited and ...

They are very simple, and I'll try to post some video as you suggest, but lighting conditions are too poor at the moment and I don't have any supplementary lighting, but here's how mine works. The dropping of the penny activates a see-saw lever which releases the ball. If you lose, the ball returns ...

The AAM subscriber base was rumoured to be around a 1000. At £36 a year per subscription, that's £36,000. When the AAM disapeared, some would have been owed a full year's subscription and others would have been owed just 1 or 2 issues. I received one copy for my £36, and despite repeated requests f...

Very difficult to do this without removing the colour from the payout symbols. Either satisfy yourself with nothing more than a wipe with a damp cloth or prepare for a full restoration.

"Mystery Payouts" aren't mysterious- local markets (ie different countries) have different rules for minimum payouts and machines are factory designed to have a payout of around 70%. Where the local market requires a greater percentage payout- say 75%-, the payout discs have extra holes dr...

after the amm fiasco i'm suprised anybody want's anything to do with Mr. Hunt. :-? Steve Hunt is generally considered among the slot machine community to be somebody "not trustworthy in business dealings" and I'm sure that reputation will follow him around for ever. It's a shame. I don't ...

I'm selling a Mills Hi-Top on eBay, item no 230190013464 or http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230190013464 and I've received this question from a watcher Q: Hello. The front castings on your machine were only made by sega. The middle badge between the 6d and the coin entry wou...

Sega started out supplying machines to American navy bases in the Pacific rim- the name SEGA is a contraction of "Service Games". The mechanism is an exact copy of the Mills Hi-Top mechanism, but in a modernised cabinet, and the Diamond 3 Star sold for about £100 less than the correspondin...

On a 1950-ish Ruffler and Walker allwin, how many times ought the ball to travel around the spirals before dropping into a cup or the lose hole? Mine has only ever done two or three loops although the spring seems strong. Recently, in Great Yarmouth I played a lot of allwins and all were sending the...

Hi Dave, welcome along.

I would say your best bet is to repair the selector arm if possible. What is it made of?

not many respons sofar:( No, but bear in mind that it is Easter- some people post from work and will be off for a long weekend, others may be away taking a holiday etc... I'm sure someone will be able to identify it for you. I presume it takes a Dutch guilder coin? My guess would be that it dates f...

Yes, but what has this got to do with slot machines?

Blimey, never seen one of them before. It's a good looking machine though.

Someone here will know something about it, just give it a day or two. Welcome in, anyway.

Let me try to sum the situation up as I see it. There are many things in this world more important than slot machines. In Africa, little brown babies die of starvation every day, for want of a meal which would cost less than a new ball for my allwin. In China, people are executed in public after a t...