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brigham wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 11:16 am A 'Flasher' is a generic term for a type of gaming machine that displays the symbols using flashing lights rather than rotating drums, discs &c..
They started off as a way to circumvent gaming laws (as usual), but became popular in their own right during the 1950s and '60s.
'Golding' is the name of a distributor of such machines.

Well, I never knew that after 40 odd years of collecting/hoarding slots. Thank you.

Well the score so far in the fourth week is ....
2 Gunther Wulff wall bandits
1 Columbia Groetchen
1 Allwin

..... and the next one will involve a rewire and complete paint strip and tart up. Who can identify it from the inside? I know Mr P, Uncle Stuart and JC will be able to, so give others a chance.
This game I think is a superb bit of fun incorporating game play borrowed from ....
See-Saw
Payramid
Bomb Dropper
All in one strangely shaped metal case.


BP
ps- Clue, neither the angle-poise lamp nor the coffee tin are part of it, anything else could be!

That’s rather slick

Show us your pictures of your hard work....

I seem to have achieved very little other than get distracted from one project to another...hopefully Black Cherry number two will be finished in a coil,eg if days, then move into number three

If I’m not mistaken, I know exactly what it is. It’s a Bryan’s Payramid. Too easy.

cheeky wrote: ↑Mon Apr 13, 2020 7:54 pm If I’m not mistaken, I know exactly what it is. It’s a Bryan’s Payramid. Too easy.

You're wrong you are mistaken.
Click on the photo.
Note .....
Minor electrics feeding a couple of solenoids.
No pay out, just return of coin played.
Shape of the top of the door externally and the material that door is made of.

BP

Samson slick, impossible to operate due to its unreliability.

Well spotted.
A good game when it's working. Three games in one, in fact.

As TF said "That’s rather slick"
The door from the front (for those not familiar)



Click to enlarge.

Two knobs at bottom, one releases ball a la Payramid tube full of balls method, the other operates the tipping of the see saw at the top, the forks lower down and by pushing it in it makes the shelf at the bottom retract so the ball drops.
There are three targets to get the ball through achieving each one moves the clock 3 points. 5 balls per 1d. If you get all 15 points you get your penny back and a free game.
Originally running on a battery (this one has a transformer in it) I think most operators sussed that the electrickery only made the scoring work. So don't put the battery in and it'll still take money and play. You just don't get your penny back or another game.
However with 5 balls plus having to score maximum every time, it's quite a lengthy game and I expect few complained.

Time to get on with it!

BP

One GOOD consequence of this sequestration is: 1) the number of terrific restorations in progress, and 2) the much appreciated increase in volume of posts to the Forum here at PennyMachines.

Well done, lads and lasses. We should do this at least once every millennium.

J Peterson
Hostage, USA

Spent the day sorting out a load of machines I had dismantled a long time ago and working out what parts go with what. Had a number of Mills mechanisms which I had serviced and wrapped in plastic until needed and the first one I tried I was very disappointed that the reels ran poorly.......after a few tries I realised something was causing a blockage and must have a frog in the system.....no truer words were said as the legs of a mummified frog dropped out of reel number three

treefrog,

Long lost relative? An Uncle, perhaps?

J Peterson
Free the frogs, USA

I think he's croaked

If it was a long time wrapped in plastic it didn’t die from corona...

moonriver wrote: ↑Tue Apr 14, 2020 3:30 am Samson slick, impossible to operate due to its unreliability.

I've operated mine for over twenty years and never had a problem - one of my most reliable machines.

badpenny wrote: ↑Mon Apr 13, 2020 8:52 pm You're wrong you are mistaken.
Click on the photo.
Note .....
Minor electrics feeding a couple of solenoids.
No pay out, just return of coin played.
Shape of the top of the door externally and the material that door is made of.

BP

That was me being funny.

And that was me being me.
After 4 weeks, it's safe to say I've got cabin fever. Don't take it personally.

As an update, I'm into my third day of paint stripping the case. I reckon it's had four coats of very thick gloss, all applied with a dead badger instead of a brush.
Luckily I've found a local source for old style chemical stripper as good as Nitromors was before EU made them remove all the ingredients that strip paint. It looks like old Nitromors, smells like it, attacks various layers and is cheaper.
Happy Days, except I am getting fed up scraping.

BP

JC wrote: ↑Thu Apr 16, 2020 11:06 pm I've operated mine for over twenty years and never had a problem - one of my most reliable machines.

That's interesting JC, yours must be a good one. Machines that have a lot for the player to do in sequence have to be reliable to operate. I think maybe these machines are completely original ones that have never been restored or rebuilt, especially if the replacement parts were missing had been made and added, having not had anything to copy from.
The Samson Slick machines I've come across before had various different issues, home-made parts and OK for home use but not for arcade.

I bought this B.M.CO machine awhile ago needing light restoration (been stored approx. 30 years ago). Slight downside for me is that it's on 1/2 penny coins. Still a nice find. It works perfectly.