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**Reel Slots** Gaming Machines => Other Reel Games => Topic started by: off-track on May 17, 2016, 07:41:56 PM
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Can anyone identify this machine? Sorry, I know the picture is small, and crappy. It appears to be really small but from the service button and 1 to 3 $0.25 coin option it looks like a "real" slot. Am I wrong?
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Looks a lot like a Summit Systems machine. Those are retro fit Ballys.
Dave
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Open the main door and look inside, if you see a card cage (metal box containing circuit boards) below the reels that looks like the photo below then like Shaggy suggests it is a Summit slot machine. They converted Bally electromechanical machines to something a little more modern, at the time. If it is a Summit then yes, they were real slot machines, placed in casinos for gambling purposes. I'd be careful about buying a non-working Summit, they can be a challenge to get working due to lack of unique parts.
Bally made some various short machines called "low boy" models. Here is an example:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Bally-Low-Boy-Slot-machine-Rare-in-great-condition-/222080549762?nma=true&si=cXGCCuItUo5YWjEbwPX5oJIqqSw%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Bally-Low-Boy-Slot-machine-Rare-in-great-condition-/222080549762?nma=true&si=cXGCCuItUo5YWjEbwPX5oJIqqSw%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557)
If you can post a photo with the main door open it will help a bunch to identify it.
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The picture was a copy/paste from an auction listing coming up at the end of the month. I was just curious to see if I should pursue further? I can probably get a closer peek the night before but was wondering if anyone here thought it might have some appeal?
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In case it is a Summit you may get some info about them from the Summit discussion threads in the forum area linked below:
http://newlifegames.com/nlg/index.php?board=87.0 (http://newlifegames.com/nlg/index.php?board=87.0)
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Well shoot! Now that I get home I wish I took some pictures. Maybe it's my imagination but I could swear that it was wider than my 873?
It was definitely a Bally EM according to the ID plate (sorry didn't get the model #) but had no other indication of machine name or anyting. I was assisting the auctioneer and got it powered just as it came up for sale. A few of the GI's came on (no belly bulbs) and I heard a solenoid energize. Opened the door and manually added a few coins. It showed coins accepted and it released the arm. Obviously needed a good cleaning as the third reel just kept spinning.
After it sold (for way too much) I showed the new owner how to open it up since he would obviously need to clean the whole mech. The coin tray was bolted to a strip of wood that slid into the lower part of the cabinet instead of the metal clips mine has?? I guess that this would be referred to as a "low boy"? There wasn't even a hole for a candle even though there is the service button on the front panel?
Expect another newb at NLG soon as I made sure to point him here.. :yes:
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Can anyone identify this machine? Sorry, I know the picture is small, and crappy. It appears to be really small but from the service button and 1 to 3 $0.25 coin option it looks like a "real" slot. Am I wrong?
Looks like a Bally E/M Lowboy to me, I had two of them, lets hope it is not a Summit conversion! If it was a Summit Conversion you would see a couple of electronic boards and a pull out power supply right in the front of you reel mechanism, if you see that Tye a chain to it and use it for a anchor next time you go fishing, and when you done just cut the chain. Bally Low Boys came out around 1972 in a model number 956, an E/M machine and later as a lowboy, 1976 model 1099, 1102, 1112, 1113, 1114, 1115, So there around and yes; it is the "Real Thing".
Jackpot :soapbox_3: