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- Tue Mar 19, 2024 1:24 pm
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: Dingles Fairground Museum
- Replies: 4
- Views: 319
Re: Dingles Fairground Museum
It will be interesting to see how much of the fairground stuff ends up on display and wonder if the amusement arcade will move as well… Time will tell… Still, gives me an excuse for a short break on the motorbike to Devon and Somerset.
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 1:21 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Extraordinary Escalator
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1091
Re: Extraordinary Escalator
Mills used a spacer like below on most on their machines. Theoretically you can get away without, but need thicker glass otherwise the jackpot will have a gap. You are missing the token arm that is in the mechanism. Was this mechanism originally on this machine? If not, it may not support one, as th...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 12:08 am
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: Dingles Fairground Museum
- Replies: 4
- Views: 319
Dingles Fairground Museum
With rumours about the long term future of Dingles having been around for a while, I see a formal announcement was made yesterday. The site closes at the end of this season in October. Part of it is moving to railway museum in Staffs and rest into storage in another museum in Hampshire. For years I ...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 2:55 pm
- Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
- Topic: Contraband Spain movie, 1955: arcade games identified
- Replies: 12
- Views: 501
Re: a tricky ID question for the Gurus
I was thinking the cabinet looks similar and has the same badge at the top, but looking closely it looks like there’s is a possible allwin door or game in it, as you can see spandrels, gallery and spiral track, unless my eyes are playing up again.
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:31 pm
- Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
- Topic: Contraband Spain movie, 1955: arcade games identified
- Replies: 12
- Views: 501
Re: a tricky ID question for the Gurus
Looks like a Matthewsons Mermaid case target game, if real and a Big Game next to it.
The Bryan’s is an All Sports.
Can’t see back properly.
The Bryan’s is an All Sports.
Can’t see back properly.
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:59 pm
- Forum: Feedback
- Topic: Arena fixed!
- Replies: 67
- Views: 17112
Re: Arena fixed!
Arena works for me and for the first time in ages without a double login
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:57 pm
- Forum: Discoveries
- Topic: Essex Football & Ahrens Great Polo Game identified
- Replies: 21
- Views: 969
Re: Help required!
Jingle,
That is the best looking 2 player game ever.
I reckon the Polo is an Ahrens machine looking at the controls… Why don’t machines like this fall on my lap?
That is the best looking 2 player game ever.
I reckon the Polo is an Ahrens machine looking at the controls… Why don’t machines like this fall on my lap?
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 2:56 pm
- Forum: Discoveries
- Topic: Essex Football & Ahrens Great Polo Game identified
- Replies: 21
- Views: 969
Re: Help required!
I wonder if it is an Essex football machine looking at controls, but don’t think they did a Polo...
If cheap, snap up, even if just for parts… Lotta work there.
If cheap, snap up, even if just for parts… Lotta work there.
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 9:10 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Broken bottom slide
- Replies: 4
- Views: 204
Re: Broken bottom slide
It is a safety slide. So as long as it is held back by the safety lever, the answer is no….
Can’t see the break. Is it on the left? Looks still together.
Can’t see the break. Is it on the left? Looks still together.
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 6:35 pm
- Forum: Auction Community
- Topic: Morphy April 2024 auction catalogue
- Replies: 11
- Views: 726
Re: Morphy April 2024 auction catalogue
Wish I could go. There are at least two machines I would like, but would not risk bidding blind.
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 6:34 pm
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: Hellomat Quarta (CAM conversion) identified
- Replies: 6
- Views: 348
Re: Cam fruit machine
Yes, must be a later version of the Hellomat and, as you say, a conversion. Maybe the change vendor was added.
https://www.goldserie.de/index.php/gale ... 4-hellomat
https://www.goldserie.de/index.php/gale ... 4-hellomat
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 6:28 pm
- Forum: Auction Community
- Topic: John Taylors slot machine auction: 12/03/24
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1068
Re: John Taylors slot machine auction: 12/03/24
Yes, I understand the right hand glass was cracked as well I haven’t bothered with many of the recent auctions up north, but decided to take a chance and went up early today, leaving at 5am to get into Louth at 8.30… Their website said they opened at 9am, so hoped a quick glimpse before the auction ...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 10:56 pm
- Forum: Auction Community
- Topic: Morphy April 2024 auction catalogue
- Replies: 11
- Views: 726
Re: Morphy April 2024 auction catalogue
Clippety clop
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 3:46 pm
- Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
- Topic: The march of the woodworm
- Replies: 4
- Views: 280
Re: The march of the woodworm
Not to worry, it's only blue asbestos !!ESCAPE!! To be honest I really thought it was some kind of asbestos and ran when sticking my hand through the side…… A large beetle larvae was living in it as well…Fortunately it was just wood dust. I don’t mind taking on projects like this and probably will ...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 9:13 pm
- Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
- Topic: The march of the woodworm
- Replies: 4
- Views: 280
The march of the woodworm
With my endless list of projects of machines bought in a past era, I wonder if this was the worst woodworm attack I had had to deal with..... initially there was a small hole, but as I prodded the paint clouds if dust rose in the air......I could not tell what the material was as dud nit look like w...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 10:39 am
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: Ebay prices getting out of hand
- Replies: 19
- Views: 648
Re: Ebay prices getting out of hand
In reality "reserves" are a waste of time. If the item isn't going to be sold under that price then start the auction at that price. If it doesn't sell, the result is the same. Isn’t that what a reserve is !PUZZLED! I now always use SENSIBLE reserves on machines, as I have been caught out...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 3:19 pm
- Forum: Mechanical Memories Magazine
- Topic: Peerless Pictures
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6712
Re: Peerless Pictures
Thanks for sharing. Funny, I cannot find a serial number on the castings mentioned on mine. The only place each of mine have them are the steel base the mechanism slides onto and the mechanism base plate, which all match: numbers 167, 173, 174 and 184, all from same arcade… I will look on the mechan...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 10:49 am
- Forum: Feedback
- Topic: The Forum's yearly check up
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4049
Re: The Forum's yearly check up
Yes forgot about that thread and of course the site was set up towards British made machines, mode you, many of the manufacturers in there like J & M and Bergman of course are foreign….. I guess I have always assumed the site was geared towards British operated machines on UK coinage pre-decimal...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 10:31 am
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: Ebay prices getting out of hand
- Replies: 19
- Views: 648
Re: Ebay prices getting out of hand
For me, where it's all happening is Facebook Marketplace and the Slot machine Groups. Although eBay has its issues, there is a level of protection for buyers and sellers, although the bias is towards buyers. The problem with Facebook is it's like the Wild West. You can easily create fake accounts a...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 10:31 pm
- Forum: See it Operate!
- Topic: Working Models & Automata
- Replies: 63
- Views: 45108
Re: Working Models & Automata
I thought this had been posted on here, but cannot find, maybe it was a Facebook group Anyway, interesting conversation of a Novomat Gunther Wolff machine with a these around the use of Crystal Meths I understand Purgatory by Simon Drake from House of Magic…..shame not in landscape as it’s great !!T...