Let's hope it has gone to someone who appreciates it, and not some Philistine who thinks it's OK to airbrush history to fit in with his own narrow viewpoint.

First thing to do is follow the two blue wires down to the bottom of the cabinet, and see where they go. If you can disconnect them from whatever they are powering, then do so, and try the machine again. If the fuse still blows, the fault is in the blue wires; probably at one of the staples. If not,...

Thanks for the explanation of the early BONUS 10/20 system.
I knew early ones had the dual mech., but I never knew why.
I had come to the conclusion that they were simply using-up existing FUTURITY mechs..

Topic merged - Site Admin. I'm offered a Mastermatic 'Master Football Game' for £250. I don't know much about these. I have two recollections about it from the time; namely not playing it, and thinking that the coin mech. appears to be from a bubblegum vendor. Has anyone played one? What's the game...

Your hands DID get dirty when you were playing the machines; it was all part of the experience.
Have a look at your hands after a good session in today's arcades, it's no different.

The thickness of the slide tells the value.
If it's two coins thick, it pays 2, etc..

It actually takes threepenny bits, rather than three individual pennies.
These are the machines I look out for, never having had the funds to play them until the late '60s, when Crompton's Threepenny Derby came out.
I'm still narrowly avoiding these Wulff types; I know that once I buy the first one...

What a horrible, cold, inhuman website.
Is it written by emotionless observers from a distant planet?
Dreadful.

A Boland's Black Beauty! Nice find.

Presumably 'Glenvil' is the supplier of the conversion?