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My dull and tarnished 6d goes on the Venetian Hotel in Macao.
[pulls handle...reels spin...]

Oooh Ta! I think that bracket might be about my level of ability - only one bend in it.
Where is your sense of adventure Raj? I bet you must have lots of stuff you don't know that you haven't got?

Bollocks! Another piece missing from my machine, as you can see below: SAM_0348.JPG At least this bit should be fairly simple to make. Could you give me some approx dimensions of the bracket please Mr PM? Thank you also for taking the time to draw out the size and shape of the other parts I need to ...

Heh heh, mad fool.... :lol: OK you asked to see it. I can't even be sure it is part of the mech, I found it loose inside the cabinet but it may just have fallen inside. SAM_0347.JPG I was going to start making some missing bits today but it is bloody cold and wet and I have just discovered my shed h...

Thank you, that helps a lot. It also solves my problem of why the ratchet wheel isn't advancing. I found a spare curved piece of spring steel in the bottom of the cabinet when I removed the lid and was sure it belonged here, but you have shown me that it is the horizontal part (of the 3 bits I'm mis...

Blimey! A lot more complicated than I thought it would be. Many thanks for taking the parts off and photographing them for me. I understand the forked bit where the coin slides across the gap, but I've no idea what function the other bits perform. I suppose I won't until I get the coin to cross the ...

Sorry I've not managed to get back on the site for a couple of days and have missed the recent banter. Thanks for the pic Mr PM - I can see I'm missing some sort of guard/cover plate between the coin validator and the see-saw that fills the various coin tubes, secured by a couple of screws where I m...

Hi BP, Thanks for your reply. You are correct there is a trapdoor above the JP tubes which seems to work via a wheel operated by a pushrod, although at the moment the wheel doesn't advance - but that's another problem. This problem is that my 6d doesn't make it to that trapdoor. I've annotated my ph...

I have just acquired a BDR Bristol 'Bread Bin', mainly because it has a completely different operation to the Mills/Sega mechanisms. It basically works OK but I thought it had stopped paying out until I realised this was because the main payout tube was empty. Looking at the coin path I can see that...

Or 'The One Armed Bandit that didn't Sell'...
(as we were calling you Badpenny)

Really? :o How interesting. Now you have explained this, I can see I have the horizontal lever that would push the escapement to release a single token. However, what I don't seem to have are any slots cut into the perforated payout discs, the edges are a uniform sawtooth effect so as far as I can s...

Thanks - those pictures helped a great deal. They have even answered a question I didn't even quite ask. Yes BP, I had worked out and fitted the blue chute you highlighted, but I've just noticed from the photo my mystery chute is also part of my machine and fits on the left (somehow) circled in red ...

Aha! Clearly wrong, as in fact I have already identified the tube for the top box and installed same in position before taking the photo above. Also I have 4 tubes remaining although I only photographed 3 as one is broken (I'm so sneaky). I think 1 might fit just above the jackpot unit, one definite...

Oh, OK Mr Badpenny if you really think that a photo will enable you to tell me where these parts go...
Personally I doubt it, but here is the photo.

So, where do you think these tubes fit in the case then?


Bet you didn't expect me to say that!

Bod

I bought a Sega Bonanza Star some months ago, rather on trust as is came as an empty case and a cardboard box full of parts. However, rummaging through the box, I reckoned I had most of the bits I thought were needed so I set about rebuilding the machine. I've had a reasonable amount of success, in ...

Heh, well it is obviously new website code - new colours, new layout etc, but I have to say that it all fits and displays correctly using IE9/Vista on my old desktop PC. I also have a notebook with Win7 that I will try later. OK so we lost the clock and a few other bits for now but if this platform ...

Anybody admit to changing anything since my post yesterday, or have GCHQ finished installing the snoopware on all our machines now? Everything looks fine again now and the menu is back on the left. I never touched nuffin, honest.

Nah! I'm using IE9 and the whole page looks slightly larger now ( such that it no longer fits across the screen and there is a small horizontal scroll) and some of the fields at the top now overlap. There is a menu at the very top (above the clock) starting about 1/3 of the way across the screen and...

I'm quite happy for you to call me a brain-dead idiot if I can have your machines for nothing !!THUMBSX2!! Shall I rent a van...? I suspect a bit of a nark on when you wrote the post Glittering? Once it subsides I doubt you will be able to let them all go.... However, if you do decide to get rid, ho...

I went to the exhibition just after it opened, before the school holidays (so the little darlings hadn't had time to break anything). It is a really good display with a wide variety of different machines and all in a really good state of repair.