Hello from spain!

[Oskargasteiz]

Hi every body!!
I´m Oskar , i live in Spain, and I want to learn a lot in this forum.
Regards from spain!

[badpenny]

Hola Oskar, Que tal?

Welcome to the forum, our interest is machines pre-electronic age. The older the machine the better.
What is your interest?

Hasta Luego

Badpenny

[Oskargasteiz]

I like the electronic things like computers, tv´s, pda´s ..... but, the slots mechanical ;)
I like the jennings governor and the mills hi-top

[badpenny]

Then this definately the site for you.

When it comes to converting to take euros, you need to consider : -
The coin slot
The reject gate
The coin acceptor
The coin tube
The payout slides, both diameter and thickness
Award cards

If you are thinking of operating vintage machines as a business, then many of our people keep the machines on original coinage and sell the coins as tokens. That way you your income is in modern money and you don't have to change the machines.

[Oskargasteiz]

Thank for your response!

There are too many thinks to consider.....
I want simply to play in my house, but with real money
What do you think about the aristocrat? The nevada golds is very beautiful.
Thank you for your time, and sorry for my bad english

[badpenny]

Your English is fine and is better than my rusty Spanish.
I lived in Spain from 1974 until 1977 and recall that there were no gambling machines only pinball machines.

Is there much availability of older machines in Spain now? Where do they come from?

[Oskargasteiz]

Actually in spain ther are 2 "big" enterprises that make slot machines:

Cirsa and recreativos franco
http://www.cirsa.com
http://www.rfranco.com

Both, have the actually the 80% or more of the market, but they don´t make anytime mechanical slots, only electronical

I think , when Franco was the dictator of Spain, the importations was restricted .....
I have to bought the machine outside of Spain, here nobody has one, I´m sending a lot of e-mails to sellers but are pretty expensives.
Cant you tell me some stores to found one?
Thank you very much

[badpenny]

In Franco's time gambling machines were illegal.
I think this will be expensive for you. Am I right in remembering that slot machines were referred to as "traga pellas" in Spanish?
Here in England we have many old machines that were originally imported or manufactured here from new, and can date back to the beginning of the 20th century.
We also have collectors' meetings where we auction machines. Typically English machines are of this genre: -

The bandits tend to be American such as the Hi Tops and Governors that you mentioned or Australian such as Aristocrats and Jubilees. Then we have many German bandits from Gunther Wulff like: -

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de cual parte de espana eres?

[Oskargasteiz]

Thanks a lot for your response!!!!
In Spain, is "Tragaperras" (coin swallower)
Im from Vitoria, In the vasque country, near of San Sebastian.
Thank you for the photos, and the info ;)

Regards
Oskar.

[badpenny]

I visited Vitoria whilst I was working in Pamplona in 1974