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Hello everybody,

I have a broken payout slide. Has anybody seen these before? It is for original Aristocrat tokens and found in a 4 reel Regal Super 22.
Or does anybody have one, or a suggestion on how to fix this? The number mentionned on the broken slide is 162-11.
See pictures 1577 and 1578 for the broken piece:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/95340567@N ... 374697751/

Thanks

Is it the slide on the left?
What's it made of? It looks like a synthetic material.
Are those screw heads? If so, are they holding two separate halves together?

Hello badpenny,

The one on left is the broken one. The holes in the small part is for the spring. There are 6 of these slides in the machine? They are made of some sort of plastic.

Thanks

I'd be tempted to use something hot like a soldering iron to try and cut a slot or groove into the back of the slide.
Then insert a replacement for the tag that takes the spring.
Alternatively drill holes to accept something like a fence staple.
There are some really strong adhesives nowadays that will hold it all as one.

Cut a flat part from a piece of aluminium (where you can attach the spring). This part must be longer than the part that's broken. Then mill a groove in the slide (with a flat drill) and screw the aluminium in place.



Something like this:

If you want a typical "back room of the arcade" type of fix .....
"... it's not earning money sitting on that bench lad, get it done and back out front!"

Drill a small hole and shove one of these in, it'll outlive the other slides.

No one will ever know, and we won't tell.

Simplest is the best!!

I used polymorph at this time and glued it onto the broken piece
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1kg-Polymorph ... 0750078621

Thanks for the suggestions Sirs.

Interesting, some time ago I posted having composite slides on a Aristocrat Regal machine, but in white, again large slides/payout (mine being the size of a Half Dollar tokens). I thought mine was a custom job, but looking at yours, Aristocrat is stamped on the base, so was a supplied item from the manufacturer.....Strange we do not see more of them.

treefrog wrote:.....Strange we do not see more of them.

I've heard they break.

Has anybody considered 3d-printing new slides, or know if somebody does this already?
Now that we know the slides exist in plastic, why not make custom ones.. This would make it easier in the case if you want to convert your machine to take another coin for example.

I own a 3d-printer, and would be happy to give it a go, but my CAD-skills are not to good. So I would rely on someone to design the model of the piece on their computer.

several small parts have been made this way but ive never seen slides attempted, the strain on them would be very high

If you need slides to play around with we have a few going cheap at the Derby sale in August …

I suspect he maybe after non British denomination. No idea what plastic Aristocrat used, but as mentioned they would take a beating, Also 3D is still not cheap cheap cheap. The other thing to consider, if for example you wanted to convert to Kroner, you would need matching other components like coin acceptor parts (coin entry ring, acceptor weight lever and adapted diameter shims) coin tube, slide cover, lower lever guides and most importantly the slides posts to match slide height. Some of these can be manipulated to adapt to another coin, depending of the amount of change involved.

A number of people have had lots of success with 3D on Allwin coin parts and other areas and it seems a few people have the skills and software on this forum....I am awaiting for very very cheap 3D machines and fully automated software for simpletons like me with small pockets..