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by coppinpr
Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:29 am
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Sega Continental Grand Prix
Replies: 4
Views: 180

Re: Sega Continental Grand Prix

I once bought two off a guy who didn't know you could take the mech out and had carried them up two flights of stone stairs in a block of flats !! Even dismantled I took my life in my hands getting back down those stairs.
by coppinpr
Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:33 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Handle hard to pull
Replies: 3
Views: 132

Re: Handle hard to pull

the first thing to know is, is it the handle or the mech that is stiffer? with the mech out of the case is the mech harder to cycle than it was before? and at the same time, is the handle real smooth without the mech in place? Then, of course, with new springs etc the mech should be stiffer (as it w...
by coppinpr
Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:59 am
Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
Topic: Contraband Spain movie, 1955: arcade games identified
Replies: 11
Views: 352

Re: Contraband Spain movie, 1955: arcade games identified

A question, just out of interest, on the cast iron machines in all the photos I've seen the gun was on the right (which made sense as most people are right-handed and with the machine sited flat against a wall the gun would be easier to use, yet I see the one of the two in the photo has the gun on t...
by coppinpr
Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:27 pm
Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
Topic: Contraband Spain movie, 1955: arcade games identified
Replies: 11
Views: 352

Re: A tricky ID question for the Gurus

I'm the guy who got in touch with David
my names not David :#:
could it be a yet-undiscovered Bryans product?
more likely a refurb perhaps done by Bryans
by coppinpr
Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:26 pm
Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
Topic: Contraband Spain movie, 1955: arcade games identified
Replies: 11
Views: 352

Contraband Spain movie, 1955: arcade games identified

A man in Spain has asked me what the machines in this still from the 1955 movie "Contraband Spain" are. The two cast iron shooters I've seen before but don't know the facts. I believe the machine on the right is a Bryans "Satellite" (?) The one in the distance is, of course, hard...
by coppinpr
Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:45 am
Forum: Discoveries
Topic: Essex Football & Ahrens Great Polo Game identified
Replies: 7
Views: 264

Re: Help required!

jingle wrote: Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:21 pmThey don’t fall on your lap Tom you have to go find them
Now that's unfair, Tom spends so much time on the road looking at machines he has been classified as "of no fixed abode". !:STEER:!
by coppinpr
Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:31 am
Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
Topic: You are all going to hate this!
Replies: 2
Views: 306

Re: you are all going to hate this !

It's for a jubilee Riviera.
by coppinpr
Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:56 am
Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
Topic: John Taylors slot machine auction: 12/03/24
Replies: 4
Views: 423

Re: John Taylors slot machine auction: 12/03/24

Some interesting prices there. Unusual to see three cranes in the same auction, although it must have needed work or had a bad problem. One was very cheap.
by coppinpr
Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:48 am
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Broken bottom slide
Replies: 4
Views: 179

Re: Broken bottom slide

I think Tom is right. There seems to be nothing broken, just a little wear in the middle. Not a problem.
by coppinpr
Wed Mar 13, 2024 8:23 am
Forum: Open Forum
Topic: Hellomat Quarta (CAM conversion) identified
Replies: 6
Views: 302

Re: Hellomat Quarta (CAM conversion) identified

not sure if it has a 15 sec play? What exactly does it do? Other than bore you to death, nothing, There was a law in Germany that said the player had to have value for money so the game had to last at least 15 sec, which doesn’t sound long but it's never-ending when you play. Watch the video above ...
by coppinpr
Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:30 pm
Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
Topic: You are all going to hate this!
Replies: 2
Views: 306

You are all going to hate this!

I'm no fan of customised slots, but sometimes people ask me to design a set for a dying machine. I don't like them but they are fun to design. :lol:
Sorry about the quality of the photo.
by coppinpr
Sun Mar 10, 2024 9:41 am
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Need a Guru
Replies: 17
Views: 666

Re: Need a Guru

I happen to know the prize dispenser on this particular machine is only 40mm deep (front to back), so I'm thinking it was a Spangles or similar. Do others agree?
by coppinpr
Sat Mar 09, 2024 5:38 pm
Forum: Discoveries
Topic: Caley's 'Marching Chocolate' rail carriage vendors
Replies: 6
Views: 360

Re: Now here is a 1d coin slot you couldn't miss

The history of the company says the factory, which was in Norwich and was VERY large (rebuilt no doubt after the war), was closed in 1999 to much outcry, so Nestle did what Hitler couldn't. Incidentally, their biggest product was Ginger Beer! a product they laid claim to having perfected as a retail...
by coppinpr
Sat Mar 09, 2024 11:09 am
Forum: Discoveries
Topic: Caley's 'Marching Chocolate' rail carriage vendors
Replies: 6
Views: 360

Caley's 'Marching Chocolate' rail carriage vendors

Not quite sure what these two are up to but you could find that coin slot even when drunk! (and what's "Marching Chocolate? !PUZZLED! ) (ah now I see it was chocolate sent by the factory to troops in the First World War). It says it's a "1930s choc machine" and I believe the Caley's n...
by coppinpr
Sat Mar 09, 2024 9:59 am
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: This week's quiz
Replies: 4
Views: 189

Re: This week's quiz

Someone on my site asked if I could help. I told them I didn't know but would ask around. The nearest I can find is a Rock-ola "Hold and Draw" but this looks too weakly made for Rock-ola and no sign there was ever a gumball dispenser, and certainly not the heavy Duval or Jennings build. St...
by coppinpr
Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:14 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: This week's quiz
Replies: 4
Views: 189

This week's quiz

Can anyone ID what this machine was before it died? :!?!:
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by coppinpr
Fri Mar 08, 2024 11:55 am
Forum: Open Forum
Topic: Handyman Special
Replies: 3
Views: 235

Re: Handyman Special

I can suggest a good name for the theme park
Donald Trumps Future World
I like it,has a ring of truth to it, for a little extra you can vist "Pootin's Pool" a rare chance to swim with radio active glowing dolphins !!YIPPEE!!
by coppinpr
Thu Mar 07, 2024 1:44 pm
Forum: Open Forum
Topic: A mind reading fortune teller ...that worked!!
Replies: 0
Views: 103

A mind reading fortune teller ...that worked!!

I love this sign on the side of the 1930 fortune teller for sale in the auction mentioned elsewhere on the forum
The Green Ray 'Have your Mind Read by Television' and here we are almost 100 years later..and it came true !OMFG!

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by coppinpr
Thu Mar 07, 2024 12:46 pm
Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
Topic: John Taylors slot machine auction: 12/03/24
Replies: 4
Views: 423

John Taylors slot machine auction: 12/03/24

An auction house contacted my site and asked if would like to circulate details of their current auction which includes around 30 slot machines ranging from spares only machines to some very rare machines including a crane, several fortune tellers, some early allwins and a couple of the more unusual...
by coppinpr
Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:58 am
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Advice on Puritan Bell reel strips
Replies: 2
Views: 163

Re: Advice on Puritan Bell reel strips

Thanks very much for the info. Are the top metal clips over the "9" all that hold the strips in place? I'll make the strips from sticky-backed vinyl so he can attach them directly to the old strips. They will be thin so should suit well.
Thanks again. !THUMBS!