Has anyone any knowlege of the hopper-payout Aristocrats?
I've finally bought a Grosvenor; good chrome, spins properly but doesn't pay out.
Easy fix, I thought. Slides jammed or not filling.
So I opened the front, and, guess what...?

Time to search some old station concourse pics...

Almost certainly a GPO item, to give pennies to work a telephone coin-box.
I wonder if it fits the rare Kiosk No.4 (K4)?

I don't remember playing for 'traditional high scores'. I remember playing for MONEY!

This sounds like one of those 'video gaming' places, which a lot of arcades turned into in the late '70s or early '80s.

Worth a look, next time I'm in the area.

I paid £200 for one last year.
That's not the general price for Bally bandits; I just happen to be keen on this 5/- Gold Award conversion.
Other types change hands for as little as £40.

Splendid news. If you work logically, you can get these machines to work. Do the 'three-pulls' lights go along in sequence as you play? Fascinating to watch. How about some pics? I'd like to see how good the reel-glass is. Most of them have been badly mutilated by the decimalizers, but if you are lu...

The Ebay machine is a gem, as far as originality is concerned. Do you think it may have started out as a ha'penny machine? The coin slot itself looks to be original.

WOW!
There's a lot more useable '9 Results' backflash than originally apparent.
I'd be inclined to make a '7 Results' topflash, and fill the playfield corners with something unobtrusive, to make a 'machine that never was'.
A sort of Triton or Norvin, to use motorcycle terms...

You're in one of my all-time favourite seaside towns, but I'm unlikely to be over that way this time of year. First thing I would do in this instance is slide out the mech, and clean and examine all the contact sets, and the multi-plug/socket arrangement for loose pins. Do you have an AVOmeter? With...

A 1992 gsxr 1100?
That's...that's...Japanese, isn't it?