Sega Monaco restoration

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After the kind help from Treefrog and Badpenny I thought it was time to post a few of pictures of the Monaco project.
The cabinet is nearly complete now so will be starting on the mech very soon.

Thanks again
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Nice job grains !!THUMBSX2!!
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Very nice.
Good to see someone else doesn't like the vertical stripe!
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Thank you Treefrog and Brigham I have been trying a few different finishes over the past few months here's one without stripes. Possibly not to everyone's taste but it does have nice chrome. Sometimes I think less can be more.
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Hi Grains,

Great to see you are keeping busy. Nice colour scheme.
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Funny I always thought the Monaco was single colour anyway. Only seen a few over the years as rarer than most models. Also they had no jackpot. Other model not using stripes was the progressive star, which was green with white top
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I really like the Progressive Star with the white top and hope one day to add one to the collection but I guess these are quite rare.
Those are great colours on the Monaco Starlet thanks Treefrog I will use those on the next Sega project which is a Bonanza Star. !!THUMBSX2!!
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brigham wrote: Mon Dec 14, 2020 9:26 am Very nice.
Good to see someone else doesn't like the vertical stripe!
The stripe went out of fashion around 1963. My Progressive Star (August 1963) looks similar to your repainted case. My case also needs a revamp. Don't store slot machines for more than a month in the bathroom!
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I like the stripe ..... on the right machine.
Of course reassembling cases, and chucking mechs back in after the Winter pull down in time for Easter opening was always a last minute job.

So, at times it was rare to find (on opening day) a bandit with the correct award card for the reels alongside.
As for guaranteeing the castings matched or the back bonnets were the same colour !!!??
I am of course referring to the small family run arcades, that ran like that for three months each year until the nephew from Coventry turned up during the Summer holidays to put it all straight.

BP :!?!:
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BP wrote:until the nephew from Coventry turned up during the Summer holidays to put it all straight
Spent many a week in the summer hols at Paignton BP back in the 1950s/60s, I was probably the snotty nosed lad in short trousers banging the machine whilst you were desperately trying to fix them in the back room.
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arrgee wrote: Fri Feb 19, 2021 4:57 pm Spent many a week in the summer hols at Paignton BP back in the 1950s/60s, I was probably the snotty nosed lad in short trousers banging the machine whilst you were desperately trying to fix them in the back room.

:HaHa: ... I used to wonder what the hell I was going to find, and regularly spent the first couple of weeks in the windowless dungeon putting right what the part timers had inflicted while repairing them 'til they broke them properly.
The biggest pain was visiting the other arcades and spanner monkeys to try and buy back all the spare bits and tools that Uncle Gordon had sold on/allowed others to borrow or steal since I was last there.

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chris rideout wrote: Fri Feb 19, 2021 11:09 am
The stripe went out of fashion around 1963. My Progressive Star (August 1963) looks similar to your repainted case. My case also needs a revamp. Don't store slot machines for more than a month in the bathroom!
Do you have any photos of inside and outside of your machine please it would be really helpful. I am wondering if these mechs have a Sega Special Award token payout fitted as standard to pay the 3 x Star Award or would this have been an option?
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Thank you for the photo. Do you have any close up pictures of the mounting position inside the case? Also the mounting of the trip lever on the mechanism. (I think this is mounted near the back of the mech., but I'm not sure exactly what it is secured to).
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Not sure about how the gold award mech fits but I think it's the same unit as the Mills (not certain though) and that attaches direct to the casting through two fixed holes and one adjustable bracket.
The activation is through the disc stop arm which already exists on the mech. This attaches to a simple bar that runs through the mech to the award unit. The problem you might have is that each of the payout discs attached to the reels which have the slots all round their edge to lock the reels when the disc stop arm moves across needs a much deeper slot at the gold award position so that the brake arm moves further forward working the award linkage. I have no photo to hand I'm afraid.
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You're lucky Grains, as it's in bits, at the minute.

How actuating arm attaches to reel stop arm
How actuating arm attaches to reel stop arm


The arm in situ
The arm in situ


Gold award unit
Gold award unit


Actuating linkage
Actuating linkage

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special when lit wrote: Sun Feb 28, 2021 2:17 pm You're lucky Grains, as it's in bits, at the minute.
Thank you special when lit and coppintr that's really helpful, Here are the photo's for the parts I have.
I will need to check the anti reverse lever has that side mounting tab on the mech I am using.
Also I need to check the payout discs have the deeper groove cut.
Both tokens appear to fit the unit but I think the Sega ones are the correct versions for the Lite Up
Is the hole at the top of the chute elongated to encompass the hole in the base plate for coin payout and the token unit which sits in front of the base plate?
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You could always cut your own slots in the discs. I did when I made my hi top out of scrap parts. Discs are very hard though
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highfield wrote:Discs are very hard though
Thermal lance would easily cut through them. You can buy small hand held lances that are very efficient.
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