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- Mon Oct 04, 2021 7:47 pm
- Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
- Topic: Coin operated stereo viewers
- Replies: 85
- Views: 61153
The Stereoscope Viewer
Topic moved & merged - Site Admin.
Whilst visiting The Grange Musical Museum's Fairground Organ Day near Diss, Norfolk on Sunday I spotted this viewer. It was on top of a player piano so difficult to photograph.
Whilst visiting The Grange Musical Museum's Fairground Organ Day near Diss, Norfolk on Sunday I spotted this viewer. It was on top of a player piano so difficult to photograph.
- Sun Sep 26, 2021 10:08 am
- Forum: Discoveries
- Topic: Mystery Canadian-made coin shooter
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2910
Re: Unusual and interesting Canadian-made coin shooter
Coppinpr wrote; Two things that struck me: 1. The instructions hints a win will pay "all the coins in the cup". How would it be possible to have more than one coin in the cup? 2. Why did it need four bells!! I think that the target would be a short vertical slot in the front of the black ...
- Sat Apr 24, 2021 4:56 pm
- Forum: See it Operate!
- Topic: Tim Hunkin: The Secret Life of components, guides for designers and makers
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2401
Re: Tim Hunkin: The Secret Life of components, guides for designers and makers
Here are some early Tim Hunkin slot machines. I like the bar tender but you have to be quick to catch the whisky glass
- Mon Mar 29, 2021 7:36 pm
- Forum: Build a Slot Machine
- Topic: Bryans Bumper
- Replies: 32
- Views: 12851
Re: Bryans Bumper
WOW, absolutely brilliant workmanship.
- Sun Mar 21, 2021 11:40 am
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Media blast set up for home use
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2899
Re: Media blast set up for home use
This YouTube video gives some idea of the dust problem mentioned above. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyZTGKTCKj0 I thought this was the best comment. Remember you are pumping air into the cabinet so it doesn't just need sealing it needs somewhere for all the air to escape from otherwise you will...
- Sat Mar 13, 2021 12:15 pm
- Forum: Discoveries
- Topic: Hawtins Juke boxes
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2555
Re: Hawtins Juke boxes
Here is a link to a 12 page story of Hatwin and Ditchburn. Some brilliant photos here.
https://www.ditchburn.co.uk/history-1946.htm
https://www.ditchburn.co.uk/history-1946.htm
- Tue Feb 16, 2021 10:08 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: What were the very first electrical slot-machines that weren't shockers?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4321
Re: What were the very first electrical slot-machines that weren't shockers?
This from the Rock-Ola Store in America In 1890 Louis Glass and William S Arnold modified an Edison Class M Electric Phonograph with a coin mechanism, making it the world’s first nickel in the slot phonograph. It had no speakers; patrons had to listen to the music using one of four listening tubes....
- Sun Feb 07, 2021 10:17 am
- Forum: Build a Slot Machine
- Topic: Game ideas
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8916
Re: Game ideas
Re, The sequence memory game suggestions.
There are some light up memory games that you could probably strip the guts out of and extend the wiring to suit your telephone exchange. Simon Says and Tap-It might be useful donors of parts.
There are some light up memory games that you could probably strip the guts out of and extend the wiring to suit your telephone exchange. Simon Says and Tap-It might be useful donors of parts.
- Fri Jan 22, 2021 8:12 pm
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: The Repair Shop BBC 1
- Replies: 33
- Views: 17930
Re: Future episode of "The Repair shop"
Brilliant! Wish I had had one when I was a kid.
- Wed Oct 28, 2020 9:02 am
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: Groetchen Pikes Peak
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2907
Re: Groetchen Pikes Peak
geordie55 This link may be helpful to find your thread size. I'm sure we are all familiar with the American UNC and UNF threads in imperial sizes but this thread range extends far beyond the threads that are commonly used in the UK. This link to the full list of threads may be helpful. Some America...
- Sun Oct 18, 2020 10:28 am
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: ABT Target Skill restore
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8408
Re: ABT Target Skill restore
And here is another one but with a different target setup.
- Sat Jun 27, 2020 6:57 am
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: Birnbeck pier Weston-super-Mare
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5945
Re: Birnbeck pier Weston-super-mare
Brilliant news BP, lets hope it all works out this time. The previous plan, by the private owners, was to build retail and housing on the land adjacent to the approach road, the rents from which, would support maintenance of the pier section but the initial repairs were reliant on Lottery funding. ...
- Tue Jun 16, 2020 8:24 am
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Do we have a Facebook group?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5656
Re: Do we have a Facebook group
Facebook, please Mr P don't do it. It will be the downfall of this brilliant site as it has with many others.
John
John
- Mon May 11, 2020 7:52 am
- Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
- Topic: J & M Triomphe + Schülke Loreley shooters
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5257
Re: Early shooter by New Polyphon
Interesting machine but why the complexity of the token when just ringing the bell and returning the coin would be so much simpler? I guess this is because there is extra profit to be made if the token is of less value than the coin. The winning coin runs down the chute to free the pull slide for d...
- Thu Apr 30, 2020 7:16 pm
- Forum: Build a Slot Machine
- Topic: Tumbling-in
- Replies: 15
- Views: 13242
Re: Tumbling-in
Hi Pete, Somehow, I don't think your supplier is selling you Polycarbonate. I have used and machined Lexan for many, many years, including cutting 19" diameter discs 8mm thick on a metalworking lathe, without any problems. Yes, Some suppliers just don't want small order customers or they want ...
- Wed Apr 29, 2020 9:19 pm
- Forum: Build a Slot Machine
- Topic: Tumbling-in
- Replies: 15
- Views: 13242
Re: Tumbling-in
Great looking machine, well done **xXx** Quote; luckystar said.--- The first one I painted up, drilled the centre hole - this cracked the circle in half. Some of the plastic would not drill right. I even used a hot nail to start the hole off. I completed one circle with all the pins painted and it ...
- Sat Apr 04, 2020 8:01 pm
- Forum: Justice Scrutton's Tipple
- Topic: Odd (not slot related) flyer
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6975
Re: Odd (not slot related) flyer
Long live British eccentricity.
- Sun Mar 29, 2020 8:49 am
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Lights of London pinball
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6232
Re: Lights of London pinball
There is also a Belisha beacon each side of the traffic signal so this would date it to around 1934 when the first ones were installed in Britain.
John
John
- Thu Aug 01, 2019 10:49 am
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: The Repair Shop BBC 1
- Replies: 33
- Views: 17930
On Repair Shop Tonight BBC2
Tonight on Repair Shop BBC2 7pm they are fixing a 1930's pinball machine. Could be interesting.
John
John
- Tue May 21, 2019 8:14 pm
- Forum: Discoveries
- Topic: Telly-Go-Round at Herne Bay
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5479
Telly-Go-Round at Herne Bay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhVAZP42NBE I came across this coin opp charity collecting machine on the promenade at Herne Bay, Kent, last weekend. Originally designed and built by the members of the Herne Bay Rotary Club in 1967 this is the third major rebuild completed in 1983 with minor revamps...