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« Last post by mboessen on Yesterday at 02:32:20 PM »
Hi, All:
New member, possibly won't be here long, depending what folks here tell me.
I'm a 71 year old retired electronics technician, having spent my last 27 years at a local hospital taking care of medical imaging machines. (Xray, CT, MRI etc.) Before that I was an FCC licensed 2-way radio technician for Motorola. My main hobby is restoring antique tube type radios. I also play Dobro (poorly) in a Bluegrass band, golf (also poorly) a couple times a week, make my own real Brandy, do amateur astronomy, and take care of 10 acres in central Missouri. I will attempt to repair almost anything. I have done several jukeboxes, pinball machines, arcade games, vintage small appliances and, again, almost anything, the older the better. Enough with the introductions. Now to the business at hand. I hope I selected the correct forum for the following:
Wednesday My cousin brought me a late 70s "cocktail" version Space Invaders game and a Bally mechanical slot machine from Arizona in the hopes I could repair them. I have the Space Invaders game working and turned to the slot machine. This is my first slot machine. I can't find any model or serial number information on it. I haven't looked at the underside, though. Once I got the lock freed up I opened it up and got some pretty bad news. There is obviously a large sub chassis missing. I know nothing about slot machines, but would guess it is a power supply and some sort of elaborate coin handling mechanism. I'm also guessing that this is likely to be very difficult to obtain.
So, a few questions:
1: Can anyone ID this machine?
2: Is there any chance I can obtain the missing chassis, and how much would it likely cost?
3: Looks to me like it might need a specifically designed lower half that it would rest on, also missing. Is this something I could build (I'm a pretty good woodworker and metal worker) or would I also need to find that? If so, some idea of it's cost.
4: I'm a pretty darn good fixer, but this does look a bit intimidating. Is it likely that there is too much specific technical education required for even a very experienced repair guy like me to overcome in a reasonable amount of time?
Thanks!!
Mike