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I found the Bingolett in Freddy Bailey's book of German machines. Looks like the auction machine has been modified to reduce the percentage substantially! Someone changed the center 1 and 4 channels, the ones most frequently hit, to nulls.

This would be the most British-looking thing I've found so far: Lot 276, Bakers Full Mannequin 5c Kicker/Catcher 276-14509.large.jpg Another English machine, lot 1138, looks like a conversion of a German wall machine: 1138-14478.large.jpg And lot 1200 is also Anglo/German - hmm, I might bid on this ...

My catalog showed up in the mail today, for the Spring auction on March 8/9. I only flipped through and looked at the pictures so far. Several Rolatops with various fronts <yawn> .. Several nice wheel machines, the kind that go for $30k or so .. Aha, lot 236, "Reliance Novelty 1897 5c cast iron...

You might consider talking to Freddy Bailey. He's an old showman with more than 50 years in the British gaming and amusement business. I've never met him personally but I've chatted with him on the phone when he called a mutual friend and I happened to be there. He's very approachable, talkative, an...

That's good thinking. Let's do it, if you trust me with your two strips. I'll write it up here with pics as a tutorial, since it's a pretty fundamental topic to have in a category called "Build a Slot Machine".

That's a pretty cool Twilight Zone, Pennymachines! My wife thanks you, and I have been instructed to download and assemble the three parts into one for her. I must say, if I could find a machine that paid a 10,000 jackpot at 8000:1 odds I'd have played it all weekend too. That's a studio setup, not ...

trowelhand wrote:Unfrotunately I am missing one strip for the Sega so cant send them out for you to copy.

Well, all is not lost - all we need is one good example of each symbol to copy, and the order for the missing strip. We can work out the order by looking at the finger holes in the payout disc.

Peter

Thanks for the compliments and greetings, PM.

...new reel strips for a Sega Bonus Star... Nobody seems to have any suggestions where you can buy them, but I know how to make them. Do you have the original strips? We'll need to measure them, scan the symbols and work out the symbol order. Then we draw the strips in Photoshop, print them with a ...

Try this - http://www.royalbell.com/ It's a company that manufactures reproductions of classic Mills machines. I'm sure they'll be helpful with spare parts. Here's their Golden Nugget: http://www.royalbell.com/images/black_golden_lady.jpg There are so many of those Golden Nugget Mills around that if...

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...