Hi I was trying to come up with a list of currently active old penny arcades. Thought I might visit some next year. Here's the list: Devon - Dingles heritage - penny arcade Basingstoke - Milestones museum vintage penny arcade Brighton - Mechanical memories amusement museum Wookey Hole - Old penny pi...

In practice, vintage arcades have operated gaming machines (including mechanical bandits) for many years now, without recourse to GC licensing. As far as I'm aware, this is possible because at least some local councils recognise them as primarily tourist/museum attractions, not gaming rooms.... An ...

Thanks for the replies so far. Having read a lot more on the subject on this forum and beyond, I still have the same questions, albeit a little more refined: Planning Usage: This would be in a permanent structure, rather than travelling. Which Planning use class is required? https://en.wikipedia.org...

I've just turned 50. I've started thinking about what to do in my retirement which, unfortunately, is at least 10 years away. I have been toying with opening a small old penny arcade, more to give me something to do in my dotage rather than have any great commercial ambitions. I imagine it would wor...

Ha! - I knew you were going to ask that - I'll have a look this evening...

Here's mine... The fuse is 3a. The Black thing is a latching push switch.

Aaah...no - you speed read a bit a bit of my post I think....my problem is that the machine is constantly running - it never stops - the motor turns through the whole cycle then when it gets to the end of the rotation (where it should stop waiting for the coin operated switch to detect a coin) it ju...

Thanks. Here's the diagram and a close up of the connector next to the mech IMG_1003_zpsee919455.jpg IMG_1007_zps68068efa.jpg In the bottom left of the diagram there's a munze (coin) operated switch, but there's no switch attached to anywhere on the mech...and a connector that goes nowhere in the pe...

It's doing everything except....stopping....it clunks, whirrs, lights up, spins...goes through a whole cycle then when it's meant to stop and wait for a coin....it starts again, and again and again As the connector is close to the coin mech I thought maybe it should be connected to a normally closed...

Some more from mine... The electrickery does indeed go straight to a transformer

I'd be interested if anyone else has anything connected to the connector block on the left side of the picture with the yellow and white wires going to it...