Inside Electro-mech.

Britain's only vintage coin-op magazine.
Post Reply
User avatar
JC
Posts: 1082
Joined: Sun Feb 19, 2006 10:38 pm
Reaction score: 9
Location: Kent
Contact:

Inside Electro-mech.

Post by JC »

Robert Rowland started a new series of articles in issue 41, taking a closer look at the mechanics and operation of electro-mechanical wall machines. He started with a look at Twinkletoes, a 1960s machine supplied by Ruffler & Walker.

Here are the pictures:
Attachments
Twinkletoes
Twinkletoes
Inside view of the door<br />(this picture wasn't actually published in the magazine)
Inside view of the door
(this picture wasn't actually published in the magazine)
The rotary selector,<br />which pre-selects the winner
The rotary selector,
which pre-selects the winner
The GPO uniselector
The GPO uniselector
User avatar
JC
Posts: 1082
Joined: Sun Feb 19, 2006 10:38 pm
Reaction score: 9
Location: Kent
Contact:

Re: Inside Electro-mech.

Post by JC »

Robert continued in issue 42 with a look at Top Ten. This is one of a number of 1960s electro-mechs, as mentioned previously, which has an internal switch that allows the operator to disable certain payouts (I really still can't believe this was legal)!
Here are the pictures as published:
Attachments
Top Ten
Top Ten
The 'rigging' switch
The 'rigging' switch
The large rotary switch that selects the winner
The large rotary switch that selects the winner
The 'mixer' that controls the machine's cycle
The 'mixer' that controls the machine's cycle
User avatar
JC
Posts: 1082
Joined: Sun Feb 19, 2006 10:38 pm
Reaction score: 9
Location: Kent
Contact:

Re: Inside Electro-mech.

Post by JC »

Robert concluded this short series in issue 43 with a look at Rotofruit. There was just one picture published in the magazine - Robert did supply me with a picture of the two uniselectors, but due to space limitations this picture was not included in the article, plus I thought that by now you must all know what a uniselector looks like! Just in case you don't, the picture's posted below.
Attachments
Rotofruit.jpg
Rotofruit uniselectors A & B.jpg
Post Reply

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 3 guests