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An impudent fella named Steve,
Four times every year sought reprieve,
Amidst elephant do,
Floggin' rockin' horse poo,
Or that's what he'd have us believe.

Spity Scouse haiku
Perfect English Gentlemen
Water off a duck.

Hey Gameswat - it just gets better and better. The scale obviously looks a lot heavier than it is, and those 12" discs are a real bonus. Vinyl Carvers UK record cutting service will master a 10" record for £24 and a 12" for £32 (vinyl, not shellac). Can't bear to look at Jingle's pict...

Full sale results (with pictures) now in the Arena. Sorry about the delay.
Also the recent Knowle & New York Bonhams slot machine results (with pictures).

You lucky man Gameswat! I've always been fascinated by Speak Your Weight scales and although they're such a prominent part of coin-op folklore, they're exceedingly rare. I'm only aware of two British makers: British Automatic Company Ltd. and Charles Ahrens . I know of a couple of Ahrens scales but ...

Early version Payramid: Height (base to top of shoulder) 28" Depth (from front to back of base) 10" Depth (from front to back of top) 6" Width (from left to right side of base) 15 1/4" Ball bearings 1/2" diameter As Jerry mentioned, the castings were gun metal. If you want t...

1. Does anyone know the maker of this machine and when it was made? I'd forgotten, until Jerry mentioned it, that we'd pinned down Mini-Pusher , Aladdin's Lamp and Davey Jones' Locker to CAM Automatics . I think this was a result of Slotalot's research into the other CAM games - the little light-fl...

Soon as "the powers that be" (and time) allows, I'll get to it. Meantime some more auction pics courtesy the Grabber:

I think I would agree with Jingle's valuation, although I was the reckless buyer of the one that went for £625. The vendor took pity on me for braving the snow to collect and let me have it for £620. Still pricey compared to the second one, but as Jingle says, that's how it goes. I wait ages for a s...

Message from Badpenny is that emails are getting through now - so that's all fixed... for the time being...

Thanks Stuart. I'll see if I can find a suitable solenoid on fleabay.

e00c wrote:...couldn't find anything about "restoring the prints"... This is something I can do.

Do you mean restoration and repair of original but damaged prints or computer assisted reproduction of paperwork?

Hi Newbie and welcome. As Jerry said, the first two topics in Announcements were "stickies" but I've now reclassified them as "announcements" to separate them from the other chronological notices. Maybe this will make it clearer. The three "announcements" are in the wro...

It looks a whole lot nicer now the red paint has gone. I notice the mechanism had the original large bell but no solenoid to strike it. I wonder if your friend found a suitable replacement for that. Posted below is a mechanism with bell missing but solenoids in place. The one I'm restoring (bottom i...

OK we're back online. Sorry about the two day glitch: apparently the IP address was bound to the wrong server through a routing issue... No, I don't know what that means either.

I'm still struggling to fix this problem. Unfortunately, this means a few more hours of downtime soon.

Good find. I've put it on the Archive/Services page. If the cost isn't prohibitive, it should be useful for all sorts of missing plates, like an Anglicised version of the Elektromat score plates...

Good find. I've put it on the Archive/Services page. If the cost isn't prohibitive, it should be useful for all sorts of missing plates, like an Anglicised version of the Elektromat score plates...

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