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- Tue Feb 02, 2021 8:00 pm
- Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
- Topic: Boland Black Beauty, Screen Stars, Brooklands, White City...
- Replies: 191
- Views: 64469
Re: Brooklands machine on Facebook
There was a Brooklands from a seller in Cornwall who had the below machine advertised on Facebook and eBay for the last 6 months. I think it has finally sold, but looked tidy for £500... I could not understand why it never went quicker. It never went quicker because I couldn't find a courier that w...
- Mon Feb 01, 2021 5:02 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Vending machine advice
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1815
Re: Vending machine advice
Speedy Weeny is a Raytheon Hot Dog vending machine. It used radar technolgy to heat the sausage from cold in twenty seconds.
Later domestic hot-dog warmers passed electric current lengthways through the sausage, a simpler means to the same end.
Later domestic hot-dog warmers passed electric current lengthways through the sausage, a simpler means to the same end.
- Sat Jan 30, 2021 3:21 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Vending machine advice
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1815
Re: Vending machine advice
Remarkably, the far-more-harmful ACTUAL cigarettes are still readily available, although kept discreetly out-of-sight.special when lit wrote: ↑Sat Jan 30, 2021 1:41 pmLet me know if you find a source for sweet cigs, I can't find them anywhere.
A result of the PC world of today, probably.
Ask at the newsagent's, when nobody else is in earshot...
- Sat Jan 30, 2021 8:39 am
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Nostalgic Nine-Cup identified
- Replies: 4
- Views: 397
Re: Nostalgic Nine-Cup identified
I have a couple of these.
You could possibly make a half-decent allwin out of one, with a backflash, a pair of hinges and some cabinet skill.
Might be worthwhile, now that the £400 allwin seems to have vanished.
You could possibly make a half-decent allwin out of one, with a backflash, a pair of hinges and some cabinet skill.
Might be worthwhile, now that the £400 allwin seems to have vanished.
- Wed Jan 27, 2021 8:48 am
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Clacton-on-Sea - The Pier Bally Machines
- Replies: 23
- Views: 10492
- Tue Jan 26, 2021 4:19 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Duo Mat payout problem
- Replies: 19
- Views: 781
Re: Duo Mat payout problem
librae, solidi, and denarii. Pounds, Shillings and Pence. "Pounds, Shillings and Pence, The teachers have no Sense, We come to School to act the Fool, Pounds, Shillings and Pence." Larry Parnes, the hugely-successful over-paid pop music impresario was known as Mr. Parnes, Shillings and Pen...
- Tue Jan 26, 2021 8:44 am
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Duo Mat payout problem
- Replies: 19
- Views: 781
Re: Duo Mat payout problem
I understood the joke; I just don't understand why so many people use a capital 'D' for 'Penny'.
You would often see it on signs, but it was always written 1d.
You would often see it on signs, but it was always written 1d.
- Sat Jan 23, 2021 9:57 am
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: Future episode of "The Repair shop"
- Replies: 3
- Views: 612
Re: Future episode of "The Repair shop"
They had them at Butlin's.
Dead easy to ride; the action is intuitive.
I remember trying to work out a multi-speed version for road use, while waiting for the funfair to open...
Dead easy to ride; the action is intuitive.
I remember trying to work out a multi-speed version for road use, while waiting for the funfair to open...
- Fri Jan 22, 2021 5:40 pm
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: Old Pennies
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3947
Re: Old Pennies
So much for Americans not knowing the word 'Doppelganger'!john t peterson wrote: ↑Fri Jan 22, 2021 1:56 pm Oh, that poor, poor doppelganger.![]()
J Peterson
Double Trouble, USA
- Wed Jan 20, 2021 8:38 am
- Forum: Auction Community
- Topic: Coin operated fortune teller on ebay
- Replies: 62
- Views: 22229
Re: Coin operated fortune teller on ebay
Does an original Postcard Vendor exist?
If not, one of these could form the basis of...
If not, one of these could form the basis of...