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They were gambling machines, first and last. They are the reason why all replay pinballs, even the innocuous flipper types, were banned in cities like New York. I have seen someone rack up hundreds of replays on a Bingo and been paid off in cash by the barkeeper. Curse you, Jones the Garage! I went ...

This may be of assistance to you. bally hold circuit.jpg Wire colors: 30 - yellow 70 - orange 63-2 - brown-yellow-blue 25-1 - blue-white-red 98-1 - gray-black-red 14-2 - red-green-blue 52 - white-blue 56 - white-brown 57 - white-orange 74 - orange-green Not shown in this diagram, the normally open s...

All the Money Honeys ever made by Bally had a hopper when they left the factory. The slide conversions were made for the late-1960s "1/- cash, 5/- tokens" scheme, two sixpences or a Gold Award token. Showmen liked this because you could only exchange your 5/- token for their ninepenny plas...

It's a Sir Prize, a really early Money Honey variety. Lift-off door hinges and no metal lining in the case makes it 1966 or thereabouts. The motor thing with the yellow knob is the random hold switch.

These machines clean up nicely. This one used to look vaguely similar to yours.

It depends when they were made. The 1951 Johnson Act required that all the major parts had to be serial numbered, and most legal gambling jurisdictions in the US required serial numbers for tracking and tax purposes.

Almost without exception, these conversions started life as a Sir Prize or Jolly Joker. I'd have to see the door hinges to be sure but the plastic panel across the front is a dead giveaway - it conceals the holes for the Hold buttons. The hopper has been taken out and replaced with two slides on the...

I had that "delayed cherry payout" on my Aristocrat. It took five to fifteen seconds to drop. The reason was someone had oiled or greased the slides.

Good information on the flasher things, now we have it for future reference. If your wire is 42 gauge it's about 110 ohms a foot. If you can even get a foot of it wound on that tiny thing without the turns shorting, which I doubt, it would draw about 1/3 amp and burn 18 watts. The original at 43 ohm...

That machine is in truly terrible condition - the glass is beyond repair and all the works have been removed. 350 pounds? Tell yer wot, guv, gimme fifty an I'll haul it to the dump f'yer. I do like the graphics, though - "9/- or 35np". If the glass wasn't totally ruined it would make a nic...

slotalot, do you happen to know what wire gauge (thickness) your nichrome is? When these coils are switched into circuit they get 40-50 volts across them, so they need a respectable resistance, probably at least 1000 ohms. I have no idea what the resistance of the original coil was - perhaps somebod...

son of youngerap wrote:This Operator Bell chap clearly served his time, Dad.

I take that as a huge compliment

I think it probably wouldn't work anyway. The PTC would have to go where the switch contact is on the schematic, in series with the relay coil, where it would be limited to the relay current - about 20mA for a typical 2k relay. A PCT that will switch at such low current has about a 3k cold resistanc...

You can replace the start side timer with a time delay relay, IF you can find any that work on 50VDC. Generally they work on 12-24V DC or 110-220 AC. It won't work for the bell side, which needs a delay on the make AND the break. The moment the slide contacts cut off the payout relay, the delay rela...

Very few coins make it to the outer columns. The application of mathemagic* suggests less than one in thirty, if the playfield is fair, so the operator isn't giving much away. Besides, who, upon receiving a coin back, wouldn't put it in again?** * Pascal's Triangle ** My ex wife. "Look, you won...

Here's a useful bit of bumf on uniselectors. It gives a little bit of advice on adjusting the beasts. One thing it doesn't warn you is that you can detach the contact bank from the mechanism completely, and it's a pain in the a$$ to put it back again, so don't do that. You probably have a uniselecto...

This last one is an upright rare pinball, two only ever made. The man who was running it I spoke to (not the owner) says it's worth 10 million dollars and not for sale.... If that's true it's got to be the most expensive slot in the world???? If it was, Tim Arnold would not sell it. The Pinball Hal...

Hard on the heels of my previous post (Mon Nov 20, 2006)....OK I'm a slow worker.... ;-) I have done much of the rewiring but have noticed that the LEFT HAND 8-bank uniselector looks as though it has several damaged wipers. Some wipers look to have been deliberately cut off (and have rounded ends)....

If the "Dog and Anvil" isn't the name of a pub, it ought to be.

Phew, I'm glad I didn't grow up in the North of England. I heard you had it tough. Mind you, even my school had to make some changes when the comprehensive system started in the 1960s. It was terrible. The school had to take so many more pupils from the secondary moderns that there was only room for...

I didn't mean to be disparaging. I think the state of the consumer technology, particularly for the price, is quite remarkable. I just caution that when shopping for one of these things, treat the examples they show you with healthy skepticism. You don't know how many attempts it took, how many hour...