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What is your dream machine? Regardless of cost or size. Perhaps you already have it?

Being into bandits I'd love a ....
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or because I also collect any slot ...
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Over to you, who knows there may be somebody reading this who has just what you want!

Ah............. I walked by a charity shop the other day, saw this old slot machine in the corner, went in and asked the grey haired octogenarian lady if I could take the old machine off her hands for a fiver as it would amuse the children in the local orphanage. Thank you young man, of course you can she said, so feeling generous I gave her a ten quid and staggered out with the Retreeva.

As I went down the road my foot slipped on the curb and I dropped the machine. I woke up swearing.

Great Idea to start this thread....

Well I would like ... a Novelty Merchant Man Crane, Handan-Ni Bomb Dropper, Lighthouse Grip by Quested and Target for Tonight by Oliver Whales.

But wait - I forgot I acquired the Target for Tonight yesterday - pic below.....

If you have any of these machines in your garden please get in touch

Woody

What an easy topic and such a good vehicle to express my simple desires.
I would like to have a DELUXE allwin that I recall as a kid. With elaborate scroll work in shiny metal and green felt or velvet backing (if my childhood memory is correct).
But wait....... there's more.
How could my collection be short of 'The Clown'! a complicated beauty that called out to me as a kid. I was happy in just admiring its build and character, as it was nearly always able to gobble up my pennies and leave me in a love/hate relationship with it!!
Yes, sad but true... but I didn't start this bloody thread!

When I started collecting there were about 10 on my dream list. Many years later the list has changed but the number hasn't. I'm not publishing the list in case it gives ideas to a collector with bigger pockets.
When the Elektromat short circuits and the house goes up in flames - which machine would I rescue before dialling 999? The Retreeva.

Mine at the moment is the Stevenson and Lovett Conveyor wall machine! One will turn up some time. Keep looking on ebay and the odd live auction. Where can I find one??????????

This one is in Sydney, if you really want one jimmycowman!! He recently had it on ebay but I lost touch with it. I bought a machine from this guy some time ago and he has a Conveyor amongst the other items he was thinning out due to divorce! In the meantime, just be happy with a picture I suppose.
Ps. Hey pennymachines, I somehow managed this upload with any probs!!!

Hi Jimmycowman, I also like the Conveyor and would love to own one . This is one that turned up on Ebay about 6 month back and went for over £1000 I think that went to Australia. Maybe one day I will be lucky and find one at the right price

That seems a lot of money for that particular Conveyor. However, they are a classic machine both in terms of 'game play' and the futuristic art deco graphics. I guess the price maybe reflects the fact that they don't seem to come up that often. Whereas you will always come across an allwin of one sort or another, the Conveyor is pretty unique.

You`ll all have to make do with playing the one in the Arcade for the moment!! Come to think of it I`d quite like one too!!

That one on ebay was 12 to 18 month ago and I was the bidding on it. It went for 600 to 700 I'm sure. Anyway, there's one at Wooky Caves. Nice machine to play but it's not mine

I would love a single player coin pusher. I found the pushers by Cromptons the most amusing of machines when I was a lad, Crompton Cakewalk and then the later machine called Get Rich where the coins would stack in columns on their sides. If you got a coin to lie flat you would push out about 10 coins, get another one of their side, another 10... The most I ever got on their sides was 4, which was extremely rare. I did happen to see a single player Get Rich at Coles Amusements in Littlehampton, so I know they made them.

Secondly, I was always fascinated by the Tooti Fruti machines, and a similar upright one that had a revolving reel that paid 2, 3, 4 or 5 pennies, when your coin went into a hole hidden behind the image of skittles (the pennies would then replenish the slots on the wheel as the wheel turned, you would wait for a 4 or 5 coin line up before playing them). If you hit one of the skittles, you would win a 10 pence coin (anybody remember what this machine was called?).

Another on my wish list would be a Bullion. I used to love cranking up that pointer and it rattled around. Boy what an aggressive clunk it would make when you hit the win.

Another great machine for me, and not a relic, was a Bally with a target system at the top and hold and draw feature: 2,4,6,8 or 10 coins. You would always try and play the machines with slow lights, line up 3 targets on the reel and hit 10 every time with 2 or 3 holds rolling in afterwards.

Most of these machines above I could win every time. I would get 10 pence a week pocket money and head for the machines where the odds were better. The Tutti Fruiti had a knack where you could spin the coin in the slot to hit the cherry line and similar on the skittles machine. Coin pushers were a walkover, just wait for a nice stack and ping the coins in...

Oh, or course I would love a Jennings bandit, they are beautiful but out of my budget. I shall sit patiently and wait for a snip to turn up.

I bought the rough Conveyor shown above, it actually cost 570.66 pounds and there were 26 bids. By the time I had it in aust it owed me approx $1900 Aud. I recently sold another restored example in aust for $4500 Aud, so I'm happy. A truly classic machine that people are always commenting on and love to bits, wish I had more!

Hi gameswa , Happy Christmas I stand corrected over the price, I thought it went for a lot more but on the plus side I was right when I said it went to Australia , I was also bidding on this machine, have you got it working yet? all the best Stuart.

Just finished the resto tonight on the Conveyor shown earlier in this thread. While ratty, it was basically complete, other than the back steel sheet and coin entry. Marquee glass is the original that I glued and resprayed to restore. Playfield was cleaned with hydrochloric acid to remove the rust staining that was showing though the paint. Sounds crazy but works if you use the acid on a rag sparingly. This was my second Conveyor but still took a good week's work.

Was also missing the rheostat now that I look at the before pics.

Wow looks great gameswat, good job!

gameswat wrote:Just finished the resto tonight on the Conveyor

Hi gameswa , Top job mate it's looking good.... Now it's worth £1000 of anyone's money!!!.... Well Done

Well thank you for the compliments! But that one was easy. The first Conveyor I restored was a bitch. Came from John Greshams collection. An operator had added a lower cash door by removing the marquee and raising the door up. They at least stuck a new marquee on top, that appeared to have been made from the roof of an old allwin case, and kept the orginal name glass. I made my own water decal to replace the missing instuction lettering from the playfield. Even kept all the original varnish surviving on the case and matched my replaced wood to it. I think this was an earlier model as the case was all oak, not like all the others I've seen in the two tone cases with a different wood for the doors. I bought an average allwin at the same time just because it came with the two deco castings used either side of the marquee. I've since owned about three spare sets of the castings that came off allwins, so I guess an operator liked the look of them and went crazy.

You certainly know how to restore them gamewat, brilliant !!

Did you also repaint the playfield backflash or have that professionally done?