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While looking for a totally unrelated slot machine I found this machine, which must surely be the bench mark for worst slot ever. !OMFG! :o
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Mmmm!

Tasteful and appealing are two words that don't apply.

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And here's his long lost relation no racism on this forum lol!
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Prefer one of these to a cowboy, there is too many of those about. ;-)
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This appeared briefly a week ago, a working full size model for a vintage sort of slot machine. I use vintage in the truest sense as Franklin was Mint who made many and ghastly item I believe made this......someone snapped it up for £100 :o
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I hope they did 'snap it up'. :lol:
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I wonder what it cost originally ? more than £100 knowing them
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raj wrote: Sat Oct 06, 2012 9:29 pmThis has got to be the worst Beromat conversion ever produced in the history of slots, probably has Formica sides and should have been left in the barn!
In a different forum on this site, I found that machine; it turns out that instead of being a Beromat conversion,
treefrog wrote: Wed Mar 14, 2018 10:11 pmIt is called a Sterling, one of the many British made machines using the Gunther Wulff German mechanisms. Often come up for sale and sometime have a top box like below which sold at auction 4 years ago for £50
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stretching a point but I think it deserves a place in this thread :shock:
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I think it deserves a place in the toilet.
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malcymal wrote: Tue Aug 07, 2012 2:52 pm Well Coppinpr, if you take at this link http://www.libertygames.co.uk/store/one ... et-bandit/ you might rub your hands with glee if you reach what they are selling them for.
OMG, £1269 for THAT? Cherries on the 3rd reel? A lemon on the 1st reel sandwiched between 2 cherries? Where are the proper reel tapes? Where is the proper award card? I suppose the next item of bad news is that the jackpot does not work; it is only there for show!
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How loathsome.
How detestable.
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Gets better if you take the finance option only £1800
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polaris wrote: Tue Feb 25, 2020 5:37 pm Gets better if you take the finance option only £1800
...... thirty quid down and the rest by County Court Judgement.

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chris rideout wrote: Tue Feb 25, 2020 12:21 pm Where are the proper reel tapes? Where is the proper award card? I suppose the next item of bad news is that the jackpot does not work; it is only there for show!
I reckon that’s been photoshopped in, doesn’t look real (sic) to me. Goodness knows what you’d get if you ordered one.
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coppinpr wrote: Wed Mar 01, 2017 3:20 pm *Topic merged - Site Admin.

It's been a while since we had a candidate for ugliest slot - this has to be close (now that definitely is a "dagger handle".

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(I couldn't find the usual post we put these in Mr P, can you move it for me please) *
A variation on the Mills "Roman Head?"
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treefrog wrote: Sun Oct 27, 2019 3:27 pm This appeared briefly a week ago, a working full size model for a vintage sort of slot machine. I use vintage in the truest sense as Franklin was Mint who made many and ghastly item I believe made this......someone snapped it up for £100 :o
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