Kraft's Automatics Darts
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I was thinking it could have been made into a game to operate, as it was too flat not being able to win anything.
If the bullseye had been made into a single winning cup, the ball disappearing inside could trigger a microswitch and with relay, penny tube and solenoid with say 4 x coin thicker slide, drop a jackpot.
I think arcade punters would play for that and it makes it far more interesting. Good job on the restoration by the way!
If the bullseye had been made into a single winning cup, the ball disappearing inside could trigger a microswitch and with relay, penny tube and solenoid with say 4 x coin thicker slide, drop a jackpot.
I think arcade punters would play for that and it makes it far more interesting. Good job on the restoration by the way!
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This has had an interesting history and travelled miles.
I think found in Essex around 1990 then sold to a German collection, then got sold to an American collection and ended up in an auction there, I think in Florida. It was bought at auction by a British dealer and I purchased it from him when it arrived back in the UK for £800 I think. I was going to convert it on the lines of what moonriver suggested, but never got round to it and slung it in one of EH auctions, made £200.
I think found in Essex around 1990 then sold to a German collection, then got sold to an American collection and ended up in an auction there, I think in Florida. It was bought at auction by a British dealer and I purchased it from him when it arrived back in the UK for £800 I think. I was going to convert it on the lines of what moonriver suggested, but never got round to it and slung it in one of EH auctions, made £200.
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Re: Kraft's Automatics Darts
You pays your money, you takes your chances.
It was quite interesting, Daveslot.
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It was quite interesting, Daveslot.
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Re: Kraft's Automatics Darts
It's the reality that the last bargain we bought could easily be a disaster when we come to sell it, Dave.
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Re: Kraft's Automatics Darts
Perhaps I shouldn't have mentioned the money! I meant the amount of miles it clocked up was interesting.
Re: Kraft's Automatics Darts
No don't think about the money. Sometimes it works the other way round. It's all part of the challenge, and as you say, some machines have travelled the World.
I found two Dennison working models on a road trip that were way out in the Midwestern US in a little town, completely lost out in the sticks, that were originally made just a few miles from me in Leeds.
So much of our stuff was shipped out there in containers almost as fillers in the '80/'90s.
I found two Dennison working models on a road trip that were way out in the Midwestern US in a little town, completely lost out in the sticks, that were originally made just a few miles from me in Leeds.
So much of our stuff was shipped out there in containers almost as fillers in the '80/'90s.
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