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The CAM Automatics 'flasher' lot 107 (The Tankard) was a snip!
If the buyer wants to turn a quick profit...

Excellent photos. The 6 (?) player machine with the octagonal display is one of the 'lost' machines of my early arcade days, and had a very distinctive sound. It was usually on 'fruits', although the pictured example is on 'letters', a hang-over from the association with US organized crime. What is ...

Nice machine. 26% on top, if you win it.
Can't bid unless you register your credit or debit card details.
I'll give it a miss.

The nuts are inside the door, fastening the belly glass frame strips to the other side. There are lots of them, and it's difficult to see which ones hold the frame, and which hold other components inside the frame. On mine, taking off the nuts didn't ease the frame, and so I had no idea whether or n...

The belly glass has to come off to change the lighting tubes. There are numerous small nuts to undo, after which it usually doesn't come loose. It's generally stuck solid, and you have to ease it slowly, round and round, trying not to break anything. I've just remembered why I lost interest in these...

You could edit the letter 'P' to make a 'D', the opposite to what the 'decimalizers' did in '71.

The existing penny badge could be 'de-decimalized' quite easily, until the right one could be found.

A Greaves conversion.
There's a wiring diagram for it on here somewhere.

Now you only have to find the right crane mechanism...

Looks to me as if it pays 2-4-6-8-10 PLUS the Jackpot, which is 5x2 plus jp.
A bit more complicated, but not insurmountable.

If I ever get an Aussie bandit still on pennies, I'll have to import some.
Your 'tanners' are insanely expensive over here. I gather you kept a high silver content right to the end.

badpenny wrote: ↑Wed Nov 14, 2018 11:58 am You're right they had a kangaroo on the obverse of the coin, because if it had been a boomerang you'd have got it back.

BP

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Are pennies hard to find in Australia? We seem to have a vast supply of them here, sometimes in unissued packing. I had an Aussie one once, in the '60s, and I meant to keep it. It accidentally went into a Crompton's 'Cover the Spot', and I asked the keyman if he could retrieve it for me. He helpfull...

That is the worst Jackpot conversion I have ever seen.

From what you say about the Jackpot paying correctly, I would think that the machine has simply been re-assembled carelessly after cleaning or overhaul. Most people start with the Jackpot combination when building-up a reel set. Of course, there are numerous ways of lining-up that combination, only ...

To me, it fits the 'newly-imported, no British provenance' category, Brig, then what about the British number reel strips and aged award card? From the label on the front it appears to have been imported into France, then later exported to Britain and converted for operation. The fact the middle st...

To me, it fits the 'newly-imported, no British provenance' category, as mentioned recently on another thread. It's of no interest to me, but that's just my own preference. Same thing applies to the Model T Ford. Finding either an English one, or even one which saw use here 'in the day', is becoming ...

Look at the payout card!
Single cherry, then two cherries plus lemon!
(No sign of two cherries plus bell, either).
THAT must have taken some critical 'adjustment'.

Any idea why 'Lucky 18' has 24 winning cups?

Bell Fruit Manufacturing of Nottingham were using Watling-based mechanisms at this time. I've never seen a CAM (or MAC) machine remotely resembling one.
If the machines distributed as CAM were indeed 'bought-in', then they would more likely be from either Jamieson's or Shield, both of Bridlington.