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after the amm fiasco i'm suprised anybody want's anything to do with Mr. Hunt. :-? Steve Hunt is generally considered among the slot machine community to be somebody "not trustworthy in business dealings" and I'm sure that reputation will follow him around for ever. It's a shame. I don't ...

I'm selling a Mills Hi-Top on eBay, item no 230190013464 or http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230190013464 and I've received this question from a watcher Q: Hello. The front castings on your machine were only made by sega. The middle badge between the 6d and the coin entry wou...

Sega started out supplying machines to American navy bases in the Pacific rim- the name SEGA is a contraction of "Service Games". The mechanism is an exact copy of the Mills Hi-Top mechanism, but in a modernised cabinet, and the Diamond 3 Star sold for about £100 less than the correspondin...

On a 1950-ish Ruffler and Walker allwin, how many times ought the ball to travel around the spirals before dropping into a cup or the lose hole? Mine has only ever done two or three loops although the spring seems strong. Recently, in Great Yarmouth I played a lot of allwins and all were sending the...

Hi Dave, welcome along.

I would say your best bet is to repair the selector arm if possible. What is it made of?

not many respons sofar:( No, but bear in mind that it is Easter- some people post from work and will be off for a long weekend, others may be away taking a holiday etc... I'm sure someone will be able to identify it for you. I presume it takes a Dutch guilder coin? My guess would be that it dates f...

Yes, but what has this got to do with slot machines?

Blimey, never seen one of them before. It's a good looking machine though.

Someone here will know something about it, just give it a day or two. Welcome in, anyway.

Let me try to sum the situation up as I see it. There are many things in this world more important than slot machines. In Africa, little brown babies die of starvation every day, for want of a meal which would cost less than a new ball for my allwin. In China, people are executed in public after a t...

Hi Ian, welcome along. Sorry, I just didn't know the answer to your question, but Dave is pretty much the definitive authority on Allwins and I knew he would be able to help, whereas I still have my figurative "L" plates on.... Nice machine!

"Another Guest", if you look at the description of the feedback forum, it says Comment on this site; suggest improvements; be firm but polite. Which is what everybody so far hs been doing, apart from the one poster whose insults have included the following... So either you are'nt clever en...

Personally, I'm not entirely convinced that the "Terrorists In The White House" forum makes a positive contribution to the site, and I wonder if anybody else had any opionion on it?

Can the administrator or moderator create a new topic for these bandit posts, as has already been suggest and move all these message to that topic. This is an interesting subject, but is nothing to do with Allwin Skill. It should have a topic to itself. (and then delete this message) Site Admin: Ye...

They are certainly becoming rarer. If you want one, look for it now because it sure as hell won't be cheaper five years down the line.

Hi Jeff, welcome along.

Those are beautiful photos. I guess there's a bit of everything there- woodwork, electrics, mechanical........

More is welcome!

There is a coin stuck somewhere at the bottom of the mechanism which is jamming it. If you remove the mechanism from the case you should see it. A torch might help.

That's my guess anyway.

But the situation is bit different in the UK. See wikipedia.org/wiki/Slot_machine ...in the UK, a fruit machine takes on an amount above its payout percentage before winning, so if a payout is 95%, a machine will make the player lose £10 before paying out £9.50. As such, it is sensible to watch for...

I've just done a brief experiment using a Sega Diamond & Star mechanical bandit dating from the mid 1960s. On each occasion, I started with three "BAR" symbols on the payout line (there is only one BAR on each reel) and I pulled the handle in an identical way each time and then noted w...

Can't think of any museum devoted to amusement machines, most of those seem to be on the coast... There's a win-a-cig allwin in the Science Museum and although that doesn't exactly make "a collection", I would always recommend a trip to the Science Museum to anyone with an interest in mach...