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by badpenny
Fri Feb 02, 2024 3:16 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Trouble with Aristocrat reels not releasing
Replies: 23
Views: 1287

Re: Trouble with Aristocrat reels not releasing

It'll be the Dog & Anvil. Slacken the retaining bolt on the anvil and tap it closer to the dog. That will enable it to engage with the dog sooner and be tilted further back which in turn will push the vertical finger reset bar to its limit. Clearing the fingers from the discs, allowing the reels...
by badpenny
Fri Feb 02, 2024 2:54 pm
Forum: Discoveries
Topic: Quite a rare beasty - Mills Futurity
Replies: 15
Views: 1229

Re: Quite a rare beasty - Mills Futurity

Yes, you're right brigham. It's the same cheat that The Horse's Head utilises on alternative games to leave the B O N U S letters vulnerable. The Hi-top BONUS had no switch over cam so it was a true 1x20 stop. I've heard this last ditch attempt to legitimise its reputation was too late, even with Wo...
by badpenny
Thu Feb 01, 2024 11:20 pm
Forum: Discoveries
Topic: Quite a rare beasty - Mills Futurity
Replies: 15
Views: 1229

Re: Quite a rare beasty - Mills Futurity

Desirable machine bp, and a good looker (Futurity that is). You post some nice pics and tempt us as to what this machine is supposed to do and intimate that they lived up to the ubiquitous shadey reputation of the slot world, but have you reached ten plays without a win of any kind yet ! :!?!: Come...
by badpenny
Thu Feb 01, 2024 11:14 pm
Forum: Discoveries
Topic: Quite a rare beasty - Mills Futurity
Replies: 15
Views: 1229

Re: Quite a rare beasty - Mills Futurity

Very nice J, very nice indeed. Although I'm not really much of a bandit man, certainly not so much as I once was, the Futurity is one machine that I would love to own. And you say you just happened to arrive back with it when returning from Coventry? Well, I've been to Coventry on quite a few occas...
by badpenny
Wed Jan 31, 2024 9:14 pm
Forum: Discoveries
Topic: Quite a rare beasty - Mills Futurity
Replies: 15
Views: 1229

Quite a rare beasty - Mills Futurity

Mills Futurity 5c Just over a year ago I attended a funeral in Coventry. My first Father in Law. Then just before Christmas I went to a second funeral in Coventry, this time it was my first Mother in Law's second husband. So that'd be my Step Father in Law. Finally two weeks later on New Year's Eve...
by badpenny
Tue Jan 30, 2024 2:27 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Machine Conversions
Replies: 5
Views: 588

Re: Machine Conversions

The change of gambling laws was mid 60s and decimalisation was early 70s.
BP %|%
by badpenny
Mon Jan 29, 2024 11:31 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Machine Conversions
Replies: 5
Views: 588

Re: Machine Conversions

Certainly at the time of decimalisation the general attitude to it was that it was a rip-off. At first many operators did the easy conversion, 1d to 2np being similar sized coins. However that was a price increase of nearly 600%. Whereas 1d to 1np (still more than double value increase) was a radica...
by badpenny
Fri Jan 26, 2024 8:46 pm
Forum: Open Forum
Topic: Inland courier services
Replies: 70
Views: 7288

Re: Can anyone recommend a Nationwide trustworthy Courier

Oh dear, we're back at square one then.
by badpenny
Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:07 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: La Buffalo
Replies: 4
Views: 717

Re: La Buffalo

I have The Iris...
by badpenny
Mon Jan 22, 2024 10:40 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Mills/Sega/Jennings Lucky Horseshoe/Devil/Chief
Replies: 125
Views: 40175

Re: Mills/Sega/Jennings Lucky Horseshoe/Devil/Chief

That's interesting, I've never seen the likes before.
It clearly originates from when it had more value earning its living than as a collectors' item.
by badpenny
Thu Jan 18, 2024 4:26 pm
Forum: Open Forum
Topic: Slot Machines on location
Replies: 97
Views: 91083

Re: Arcade Photographs

:oops: Strewth, did I marry her once? !!UHOH!!
by badpenny
Tue Jan 16, 2024 12:32 pm
Forum: Open Forum
Topic: Sega "Lord Sega"
Replies: 20
Views: 17561

Re: Sega "Lord Sega"

Welcome to the forum walaro We don't have much in the way of rules etc, but do ask everyone to read the "sticky" posts at the beginning of ANNOUNCEMENTS . And INTRODUCTIONS is a useful way to get noticed and up to speed with what's going on. Good luck with finding anything you need, you'll...
by badpenny
Tue Jan 16, 2024 12:24 am
Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
Topic: Nice row of cast iron machines
Replies: 23
Views: 4705

Re: Nice row of cast iron machines

Years ago I worked with an old school photographic expert. He told me that in order to try and clarify detail in an image they would enlarge it and then print it as a negative. Oddly enough it works with digital images as well. Doing this and adding "remove noise" and "sharpen" s...
by badpenny
Fri Jan 12, 2024 2:47 pm
Forum: See it Operate!
Topic: Vintage Slots in Films and Newsreels
Replies: 280
Views: 170124

Re: Vintage Slots in Films and Newsreels

The link works for me.
BP :cool:
by badpenny
Thu Jan 11, 2024 9:00 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Aristocrat Elite
Replies: 12
Views: 1018

Re: Aristocrat Elite

Excellent news!
Well done, and keep jerking your handle.

BP🎰
by badpenny
Mon Jan 08, 2024 8:17 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Aristocrat Elite
Replies: 12
Views: 1018

Re: Aristocrat Elite

Righty ho, my suggestion in my last post still stands ... To prove the point stop the fan and then see if you are able to move the vertical lever further to the right by hand. It might be fighting dried grease. As it is possible it's not the spring, it could be dried grease or maybe someone has swap...
by badpenny
Sun Jan 07, 2024 8:02 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Aristocrat Elite
Replies: 12
Views: 1018

Re: Aristocrat Elite

That's the one I've been talking about. The button does need to be well seated on the top, and it's not. My instinct is to say try a stronger spring. To prove the point stop the fan and then see if you are able to move the vertical lever further to the right by hand. It might be fighting dried greas...
by badpenny
Sun Jan 07, 2024 2:42 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Aristocrat Elite
Replies: 12
Views: 1018

Re: Aristocrat Elite

To post a video you first load it to a host like Youtube and then post its URL or share code here. Your photo shows the best view of what I was talking about: https://pennymachines.co.uk/Forum/download/file.php?id=45623 You can see the "button" stop is barely sitting on top of the vertical...
by badpenny
Sat Jan 06, 2024 3:13 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Aristocrat Elite
Replies: 12
Views: 1018

Re: Aristocrat elite

Look at the back of the mechanism. Without a photo you'll need to trace this backwards. The vertical fingers are held back away from the discs by a bar that is part of an L shaped bracket. As it tilts over to move the fingers out of the discs the vertical lever in line with the clock moves across un...
by badpenny
Wed Jan 03, 2024 2:07 pm
Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
Topic: Wrights/Streets/Whittakers Snap bandits
Replies: 62
Views: 28094

Re: Jamieson/Streets et al. Snap bandits

I had one of those 20 years ago.
Just fit any old leaf/micro switch, you may have to jiggle it around a bit.
Welcome to the forum.

BP :cool: