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Just guessing. But since you're in the US, and that gray box isn't in any other Rotamint I've ever seen, is it possible that it's ALREADY GOT a 110-220V converter - the gray box? Try it on 110V.

At reset, the tips of the wipers should be in a vertical line on the very ends of the tracks.

Never oil or grease the slides! You can dust them with a little graphite powder if necessary, but oil will always stick them in the end.

The big green resistor is 470 ohms, ten watts. The smaller resistor to its right is 8.2k, half watt. It goes to the bottom make contact, which is the yellow side of the 50V supply (the other side is orange). It feeds a small current continuously through the relay coil, not enough to pull it in ...

Very true. When I worked at a slot machine company here in the US we had nickel (5 cent) tokens made of brass. They cost seventeen cents each . The advantage was we still had the same number at the end of the week. I had to put tokens in my own bandits at home, once my kids discovered where I kept ...

Just some general comments - All these machines are 50V AC. The very first Bally EM model was 110V but only a few were ever made before complaints from customers forced a change to 50V. The lamps are almost always 6.3V although some showman mods may have used 50V lamps in the change boxes (unlikely ...

Well I'm not sure Truckee qualified as their headquarters, but I know they set up there because it was the closest they could legally get to Reno. When they got their license sorted out they closed Truckee and moved to Reno, across the street from IGT. Truckee was very small and crowded - they were ...

The Mark 5 is a video slot. You don't often see them for sale in the US because mostly they're less than 25 years old, which is too recent for most states. Aristocrat had a troubled history in the USA. The first Aristocrat machines over here were, I believe, imported by IGT, who had settled a ...

I'm late to this discussion, but an old penny (31mm) is close in size to a US half dollar (30.61mm) and a common Japanese Pachislo token (30mm). You can buy the tokens on Ebay for around $120 (US) a thousand. It's what I use in a couple of old penny German wall machines I picked up at auction over ...

What kinds? Not a lot of people bother with them because they're hard to sell. On American Ebay they generally don't fetch more than $50.