Revamped Beromat-type bandits

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Re: Revamped Beromat-type bandits

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Reel strips seem to be a mixed bag. 1 and 2 are playing cards, 3 is the old-style Beromat fruits. The award card shows all fruits. My guess is it had playing cards added over the old fruits and a new award card and reel 3 and the award card have been lost. I see there is some interest (5 bids reaching £27!!) so it might go to a good home (or a supply of Beromat parts).
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Bronx. Picked this up, today.
Works OK, but doesn't pay out. There's coins in the tube. I suspect it just needs a clean and lube.
I'll get it on the operating table, when I've finished my Black cherry.
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pennymachines wrote: Sun Feb 06, 2022 2:16 pm Princess, Beauty and the Beast?
I think I used to own that silver one.
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Lordy, someone has gone to town with that.

I can see the little scrotes utilising their Scout Knives to pry off those baubles.
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I can see the little scrotes utilising their Scout Knives to pry off those baubles.
you were one of those little scrotes BP :didact:
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No, not me Paul.
Being an English boy in Scotland I needed to keep as low a profile as possible.
They'd kick seven bells of sh 1 tea out of me in the playground because I breathed in an English accent.
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badpenny wrote:Being an English boy in Scotland


Blimey, Scotland and down to Paington - you were quite a little gadabout bp.
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You don't know the half of it Arrgee

Born in the New Forest, then to ...
Paignton, then to ...
Stansted, then to ...
Ayrshire, and all before starting school ... then to ...
Coventry, to finish secondary education and work Summer holidays at Uncle Gordon's Arcade Paignton. Then to ...
North Spain, then back to ...
Coventry, then to ...
London (total of 10 different pubs), then to ...
Chester, then to ...
Live on a boat Shardlow S. Derbys, then to ...
Somercotes N. Derbys, then to ...
Live on a Canal Boat East Midlands, then to ...
Derby, then to ...
Thringstone Leicestershire (where I had my first slotty events) then to ...
Burntwood Near Cannock Chase, then to ...
Rugely, then to ...
Coventry, then to ...
Derby then to ...
Lincoln then to ...
Live on a boat near Rugby, then back to ...
Lincoln.

A moving target is harder to hit, and I fear I'm slowing down.
I'm confident that many of the addresses above hide the remains of a dismantled machine in the cellar/attic or shed.

BP *BOWS*
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Oops, sorry I asked bp, extremely discombobulating for you sir.
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Machine ID

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Hi
Can anybody tell me make & any info on this machine?
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Looks like one of the Beromat conversions, but I've not seen one like that before.
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:WELCOME: to the site cornoden.

Yes, it's a German-made, Günter Wulff mechanism, rehoused in a British-made cabinet. The post-war German one arm bandits were distinctive in several ways. The internal and external castings are made of zinc-based aluminium, magnesium, and copper alloys (sometimes called Zamak, Mazak, (more vaguely) pot metal, or (colloquially) monkey metal. Consequently, the mechanisms were structurally weak, but were engineered to compensate for this. Uniquely, they adopted a wall-mounted format and their cabinets were vacuum-formed wood laminates. German gaming regulations stipulated that a play should be no shorter than 15 seconds, and a maximum three year licensed operation period from date of sale was imposed on all such machines.

A glut of low cost second-hand German bandits exported to the UK was the result. Many (mostly small) British companies profited from reconditioning and re-jigging them to take British coinage. Some replaced the decorative but fragile wood veneers with plastic laminates, and many completely rebuilt the cabinets, usually into the more familiar counter-top format. Often the governor on the timing clock was disabled to speed up the game cycle. The topic now merged above shows some of the dozens of different designs Yours adds one more to that list!
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Re: Machine ID

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Thanks for all the info. Very helpful.
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Re: Machine ID

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After all these years... I still don't get the German pay-out philosophy.
When does an orange apple and bell denote a big win and showing in the photo above is 2 cherries on the win line and there are no cherry wins whatsoever on the pay table.

Maybe it makes people not expect 3 of the same symbols in a line, so when the machine malfunctions and it fails to pay out on a strange combination win... the punter does not even notice.

Prior to having fruit symbols on the reels... these German machines had numbers... but even these were not three of a kind wins.

I have asked this question before recently but no one seems to know the answer why the payout symbol combinations are so random. I'm so intrigued by this... Does anyone here know the reasons why?

all the best ... Dicky
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I can't see if it's the case on this one (which seems to have a very low-mounted pay window) but what always gets me is that you don't need to look at the payout chart anyway as all payouts have red striped backgrounds. It's as if they didn't think players were bright enough to work out a winner. Thinking about it, it just occurred to me that it might be that on a standard bandit the player could see easily if he had just missed a win (2 bells and a bell just below) but because the German payouts are so random perhaps they coloured the background so the player could see he had just missed, encouraging him to play again :!?!:
I do like the art on this one, but those hinges are a bit naff. Typical British thinking. !!JUNK!! :smash:
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