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Well spotted mr PM - had a few head scratching moments looking at extra pieces of tin on mechanism above coin slide before I figured there was a window on reverse.

Got this home after long 800 mile round trip and is lovely addition to collection. Quite an ingenious double slide mechanism whereby two coin win depresses bottom trip, bog standard operation, and releases two coins. Jackpot trip depresses lifting bar which in turn locks slides together with a pin dropping into hole allowing jackpot to be paid. Think I got a new favourite.

Works pretty similar to the Kraft Jackpot with the dummy jackpot in view, except they cover it as it pays out to give the illusion it's paying you what's in the window. Would have been nice to have seen that on it.

treefrog wrote:Odd that the graphics the only words have been chopped by the ball track

Could it be that in bringing the track further up above the lettering it would cut through the window, obstructing the view of jackpot?

I'm sure that's right, but it seems they missed a trick not putting it centre-field for maximum impact. The jackpot payout is clever, as you say, but a shutter linked to the slide, which momentarily obscured the pot window, would have been nice. Anyway, an unusual, fun and very rare allwin.

Hi all
I hope everyone in the U.K. (and the U.S.A.) had a great Christmas

Just wondering, I saw this Wondermatics Nine Pins on ebay and noticed it had one row of cups and 4 single cups under that.
I picked up a Nine Pins this year and mine has two rows of cups and no single cups.
Any comments why would Wondermatic do that? Which one's older?
Cheers,
Scottie

They ran out of single cups and bolted on a gallery to complete an order.

Too many beers during the employee appreciation lunch.

J Peterson
In my cups in the USA

I wonder if it was a mistake, but it does have the blanks in similar places to the single cups. This is the same theme as machines like the Rally Ball. I wonder if there is a different theme on the back of the backflash as seen on other machines.

So is the one I have the odd duck...or is it the other way around.....
So who gets new year's first...ha ha
Scottie

It plays differently, too, by the look of it. 2d. or 4d. payout, and more 'losts', if 'fall' is equivalent to 'lose'.
(Does anyone here play ninepins? Is 'fall' a score?)

'Fall' is not a score. The ball should drop through that one.

I don't think this could have been a mistake as such, more an accommodation or test, as the track had to be mounted differently. Note that the track passes through the bowling ball on one but not the other (to allow the gallery to fit in a working space allowing for the ball to sometimes drop to the side?) Is it possible that this is why the galleries are mounted at an angle - to give more room for the ball? I assume this machine also has a different mech, as machine one is a single 2d payout and the other is 2 or 4d. I'm guessing that is why the extra holes were cut in the backflash to show the ball as it drops for each 2d payout? I would say not an oddity but rather a mk2 or prototype.

Thank you for your imput...
I'll have to check E C website to see if there are others and which ones they are....
Scottie

I was just looking around the inter-web ...only found 3 different pictures of the NINE PIN ....and all 3 had the single cups below the one row of cup... Maybe mine's the rare one-of-a-kind.

Scottie

Would think treefrog and BP are on the right track thinking that this may originally have been set up for something else like Rally Ball theme - possibly the only backflash to hand at the time. Seems strange to obscure the pins and lane with the gallery given single cups are mimicking pin heads. Nice addition though.

I couldn’t find a picture on the Wonders list of the Royal Flush, so added this one in the later cabinet. Interesting, as I could see no payout slide or method for payout and maybe it was just a coin return. Not the most exciting of Wonders machines, but I guess not common. Sold the other day for £200...

A good £200 worth, basic as it is.
I'll take five...