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It is possible to rewind the uniselector coil yourself by hand. Rather a tedious job, but I've done it when necessary, and it's probably easier than finding a new unit these days.

On USA Ebay I've noticed a downward trend for many months now. Top price for common machines like HiTops is down about 20% from last year. I just checked, and 7 out of 10 machines finishing in the next 4 hours don't have a single bid. Poinsettia, Dutch Boy, Sun Chief, War Eagle, some kind of Pace hy...

You can see by looking at them, but I'll describe them for everyone else. There's a semicircular bank of several rows of 25 contacts, with a shaft up the middle carrying contact wipers for each level and a ratchet to turn the shaft. There's a magnet coil on the side frame, left in the picture, with ...

Heh - having gone back and read the rest of this thread, I'm glad I took the trouble to at least think of a name before posting !COOOL! - and I went on to register afterwards. Perhaps the answer to the legal conundrum is a Private Member's Bill? That's how the laws were relaxed in the USA, when some...

I was browsing the web looking for info on Peter Simper and came across this most fascinating article at Intergame Online. It's Michael Green's memoir covering the last 50 years of the British coin machine business. Even more fascinating is the page of comments from other people associated with the ...

After tracking down the original auction pictures, I see it has two Post Office uniselectors and some PO-3000 relays. These normally all run at a standard 50VDC, so logically (since I see no reservoir capacitor) the transformer should be putting around 50V on the rectifier. The lamps will not be any...

I've inly been here a couple of weeks but it runs nice and fast for me. It probably helps that I mostly visit in the middle of the British night, when the pipes have had time to drain.

got any high quality digitally copies of bank notes? No, of course not - that would be naughty. Besides, high quality digitizers know when they're looking at money and will, if they have a modem or internet connection, call the Old Bill on their own initiative. Surprised a few villains, that has :-...

About 30 years ago, there seemed to be wall-to-wall Peter Simper machines in the south and south-west of England. Yet I have never seen one in any collection, nor any auction - I can't even find a picture. I know they're electric machines and not as collectible as Allwins, but surely there must be s...

Here's a sheet of classic fruit symbols that I drew for a slot program many years ago. They're a bit blocky because there are no half tones - exactly 16 colors are used out of a palette of 256, which is what I needed for my program. You can un-block them by enlarging considerably, taking a median cu...

It's comparatively rare, but not especially sought-after. It's a late 50s model, trying to compete with the Jennings Sun Chief. The Sun Chief had light-up panels on the front, whereas the Mills has faux panels - chrome with red vertical stripes - that look very similar if the Jennings' lights are of...

Nobody replied to you yet? That is a very rare machine, mate. Jennings made the first 4-reeler mechanical (the Buckaroo) in 1955, and it was such a success that Mills and Pace copied it a year later. The 4th reel made the long odds 160,000:1 allowing much bigger jackpots, typically 2000 coins or mor...

Here are two more machines of incredible rarity, but not much cash value. I picked up both of these for 2/3 the price of an average Hi-Top. The one on the left is a 1968 Dale Pokermatic, the first ever electronic draw poker machine. The one on the right is a Bally Computer Poker, made by Si Redd's B...

Projector displays were first used in the USA, by Keeney. One of their engineers, Pete Sagan, saw the IEE numeric displays and asked IEE to do one with images. They first appeared in the Keeney Red Arrow machine in 1960. The reason was to get round the Federal Johnson Act, which prohibited the distr...

how come all 6D bandits pay-out 18 coins (and have a jackpot) while all 1D bandits pay-out just 12 coins? Club machines (membership required, 24 hour waiting period) did not have the same restrictions as arcade machines and could pay out at least 50 pounds. There were plenty of 6D pub machines subj...

New member here .. Apologies for reviving an old thread, but here's a machine with nixies you've never seen before. I haven't yet been able to gain possession of this, but I'm hopeful. You set a number - today's stock price, or whatever - on the nixies using the five key switches visible on the righ...