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Yes, I saw it and have my eye on it as a spares machine! Could be just the solution I am looking for. I could see how the eBay machine is wired, and repair mine.....

Just a quick update on progress with repairs - thanks to Dave Hill's excellent photographs, I have gathered some more clues concerning the operation of the unit (even though his was a later model with more relays inside!). It seems that the play switch had been replaced in my machine, and was of the...

The front panel glass has the words "Push to start, release to stop", so I assume it originally had a double pole switch fitted.

Perhaps later models had a single pole switch?

Thanks for trying! I knew it wouldn't be easy to find information, but as you say, if anyone has it, this is the place to track it down....

Thanks a lot for the info - I am an electronics technician, but I am baffled over this one, because it has been re-wired a fair amount. The push button start/stop has been replaced with a stop only button, so there are lots of wires now redundant. I would like to restore it to its original state if ...

One from this era which sticks in my mind worked like a vacuum cleaner in reverse blowing plastic practice golf balls out of the middle a la bingo machine. There were stations all 'round the machine, and you inserted a penny to light a lamp for a few seconds. Then you prayed some balls would cascad...

My guess is a version of Cromptons Lucky Stars which was derived from their Derby Races . See Inventing the Penny Pusher for Jim Crompton's description and a small picture. This would have had film star symbols, but maybe fruits appeared on a later version. I certainly remember Film Star (there was...

One of the most vivid memories I have of the arcades in the 1960s is playing on a 1d multi-player machine which seemed to dominate the entire arcade - it consisted of a large, hexagonal(?) top display, featuring fruit machine symbols arranged in a circle. When the Play Now light came on, you placed ...

From what I remember, the projector displays were hard to see in certain levels of ambient light, that's why they were usually located beneath a small viewing hood. I only ever saw one machine which used them, it was a floor-standing fruit machine, with a push-left-or-push-right handle to start the ...

I thought it was a great machine but nobody else thought so! I think it had a spare nixie tube with it I can remember this machine, or one very much like it, in an amusement arcade in Hemsby, Norfolk, in the 1960's. At the time I thought that the NIXIE tubes were very unusual, as most fruit machine...

(Several Roto-Pool, Roto-Fruit, Rotolite, Electrodart. Bingola, etc. topics merged - Site Admin) Hi, I have just taken delivery of an old electro-mechanical wall machine called Electrodart (once common in the arcades in the 'fifties and 'sixties). Although cosmetically very good (has an excellent b...