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Mr PM says, Spectacle Mécanique at the Great Room, 6 King Street, Covent Garden where Henri-Louis Jaquet-Droz's automata performed in 1776. Henri-Louis and his son Pierre worked from the mid to the late 1700's building exquisite clocks and amazing automaton. Such was their reputation that much of t...

I cannot see many collectors would be willing to ship a collection from Australia to UK? Unless the machines were very cheap it would surely not be viable? About 5 years ago it cost £65 to ship by sea a WW1 Thornycroft lorry engine including it's firepump subframe in a crate about 5ft x 4ft x 3ft f...

I have just got back from visiting this brilliant exhibition put on by the Rowland Emett Society and the Cabaret Mechanical Theatre Traveling Exhibition with support from other automaton makers. In order to showcase Roland Emett’s work the RES are showing Emett’s last and biggest creation ‘A Quiet ...

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL


May Santa have one of these in his sack for you.

John

"Stevenson and Lovett", R&W were distributors. Thanks for the correction BP, I must be cracking up. !!LOSINGIT!! The Retreeva does give a free game if set to do so. It has three operator settings, selected by flipping a horizontal 'switch' inside, with 'repeat' and 'return' stamped on...

I don't know why Bryans changed the detection method from that of the Payramid that I own, as it seems much more reliable than the Retreeva method. I read somewhere that it is thought that Bryans chose to keep all the balls in sight so that they did not get contaminated with oil / grease from passi...

Bryans Retreeva Mech with Numbered Parts.JPG In this machine Bryans very cleverly uses parts of the mech. to do two actions. The mech. is quite complicated and I have tried to simplify this description to make it easier to follow. On the left hand side there are two vertical bars; one is for the ba...

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This post reminds me of visiting a pub somewhere in the Norfolk outback in the 1960's which was just a converted house. The wife and I had just moved up to Norfolk and a group of friends were visiting from London so we decided to find a real old country pub. Once found the first surprise was that w...

its projects like this that give you an insight into the problems the original designers must have had,incredible and valuable information for the hobby, Id like a Buckley bones for Christmas...any chance you'd make me one :!?!: One of the things I like about penny slot machines is seeing how the d...

Many thanks for your kind comment Coppinpr. It took around 80 hours to complete but that included cutting and planing up the oak and beech from rough sawn boards. I also had to remake the ball tracks because I made the first ones without the spring release sections and was suprised at how many time...

Re, Bressingham's Steam Gallopers. It is highly unlikely that the ride will again be powered by steam as the engine and boiler unit are now exhibited in the museum building and the boiler has been sectioned to show the visitors what's inside. In recent times it has been difficult to find a steam tr...

When I got my backflash printed for the Conveyor (see A Conveyor for Christmas in Build a Slot Machine) I downloaded the picture from Resources onto a memory stick and took the stick to my local 'one man band' print shop with the finished sizes that I required and he downloaded the stick into his c...

Hi Widget, I think that Gameswat is right when he says that we are overthinking this. If you think that the wiring is original then his guess is very probably correct; it makes good sense to me because the arcade owner, as well as the players, could also keep an eye on the machine. I'm guessing the...

Hi Widget, This is the contact breaker and it has to be adjusted to supply a consistent on/off current to the primary coil; a consistent buzzing is what is required. There are two coils wound concentrically inside each other. In the on position the low voltage primary coil is energised and in the of...