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This one? Courtesy of Darren Hesketh's Penny-In-The-Slot Automata and the Working Model (p145). The Miracle Man, c. 1953. An amazing feat of levitation is performed, during which the Miracle Man sits up, turns his head around and waves. The automaton may have originally been cased by Modern Enterpr...

Thankis for the info. I will see if I can get hold of a sample. Providing the weight is similar these may be worth a look :-)

Hi Chris,

This looks fantastic. Great to see more people enabling the public to play this machines :-)

Cheers for the reply, great looking machine you have there :-)

I am researching my Tencup win and want to ask if the graphic under the winning cups always said 'WIN' or were they changed to numbers if you adjusted to multi payout? Thanks to Bryans Fan for the upload of the original round payout info. I have made a mock up but need to resize before pasting onto ...

Welcome to the forum Mustang Pete! There is a wealth of help and knowledge here and it's friendly too!

Cheers Grains, a star as always :-)

treefrog wrote: ↑Sun Oct 23, 2022 8:12 pm Looks perfect to me….

The picture is of the type I am needing for another machine I am restoring :-)

I am restoring a Copper sega for the arcade and am looking for a metal reward card. Does anyone have one or know of somewhere I could get one made up please. It needs to look like the one in the picture…only in better condition LOL

Whilst I understand that since starting to collect, prices have gone mad, there seems to be a real slow down of machines advertised for sale. Do we think this is because people are holding onto them in the hope prices will go even higher, or maybe there is just a shortage of machines coming to marke...

slotalot wrote: ↑Fri Oct 21, 2022 2:39 pm Hi Paul, much better with everything you have done with it. Doesn't look like the same machine.
You can't beat something that gives sweets out to attract the punters. Hope it does well for you.

Cheers for the feedback, means a lot :-)

highfield wrote: ↑Fri Oct 21, 2022 12:33 pm Great job. Any chance of a video to see it working

Will have a go and post something for you :-)

So here are some facelift pictures of the crane. It’s been brightened up with a coat of red paint, a mirror has been placed in the back of the cabinet to reflect everything back together with small mirror tiles for decoration around the prize area. I have replaced the glass with 5 mm plexi acrylic f...

It’s great to hear from other operators sharing information and stories. That’s what makes this forum so brilliant. I guess it’s all about experimentation. When I take the arcade out it’s always a bit of a show. I completely agree that making the general public part of the experience is what it’s al...

mr merrivale wrote: ↑Tue Sep 27, 2022 3:59 pm I hope this helps but just my thoughts based on 33 years operating.
Your always welcome to call if I can ever be of any help.
Peter
07763 802439

Thank so much Peter for your comments. I will certainly give you a buzz for a natter :-)

Thanks for sharing moonriver, your thoughts and ideas are really helpful :-). Must come and visit some time when in your direction.

Cheers treefrog, I agree with the idiots comment, sadly there are a lot of them out there :-) Many of our events are paid gigs so we actually return the money we raise to the booker to offset the hire fee. I think it varies with socioeconomic factors too. In Warwick £2 is nothing , in Nottingham peo...

Very true BP. I can continue with the old pennies if I can get these at 5p each. At least that way if I lose them I am not out of pocket. I really think it will spoil the experience if I move to tokens for my own presentation purposes.

Bit harsh saying they are stealing them, as you are selling them and they are buying them...? Of course technically you are right, in the eyes of a punter they are buying the coins.. In reality they’re exchanging their hard earned cash for the coins to use in the machines to play. Unfortunately thi...