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The last machine arrived at home, Bally 873 5-line, now clean & repair it.

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Nurbo:
Hello,


After having bought the Bally 809 Multiplier to a friend, I looked to what had been done in the Bally electromechanical machines, and inevitably the classic pair is 809 and the ... ... ..the ...... ..873 !! !

The 809 Multiplier, as its name suggests, can multiply gains and is called a 5 credits machine. So you can play 1 to 5 coins, and each time it multiplies the gain.

The 873 is also a 5 credits one, but it is a 5-line. You can play 1 to 5 coins, or 1 coin per line.

Below the 873 which is on the left is for me, and the 809 which is on the right is going to go back to the North of France for a friend.



I owe this discovery to Mr Zpeakabonk, a big thank you to him !!!

As announced at the time of the sale, it is in its "own juice". It operates in 110 V, but has the hopper, mechanical coin and the wiring seems whole and it did not seem to have been cannibalized. Small feature, it comes straight from Japan !

The glass are in fairly good condition, there is a small scratch in the lower right, but I should succeed in recovering it. Which suffered the most during those years, it was the chrome. We will see what will be possible to get back with Belgom Chrome.

I'm pretty happy to have met this couple 809 / 873, even if it is far from being clean and functional, I will see the extent of the work to be done when I really put my hands in it.

Let's go, photo shoot, I have left in the original size so that the specialists give me their opinion on possible "anomalies", though I've already identified a few, just by taking photos.

We can see the scratch on the lower right, but luckily the glass was not affected. The topper is missing.




The top glass with the 3 Seven aligned payments, the Jackpot ($ 750) when you play 5 coins.




The middle glass and 5 lines represented, with the secondary payments on the right side.




The bottom glass with the scratch on the right. Visible also on the left, but less obvious.




The mechanics of the 3 reel. In the bottom left of the first reel and above the propeller, we can see a strand from 6 to 8 wire surrounded by electrical tape, here is a possible first change we'll have to check.




The hopper.




The reel launching mechanism. It does not make too much account, but there is a large quantity of grease everywhere.




Another view of the propeller mechanism.




The inside of the door at the level of the reel.




What a miracle !,  I have a double keys reset !!!
By cons, 2nd anomaly. I noticed the little piece of paper that served of shim at the coil of the coin diverter. In this way, the coins are bound to the hopper, so it cannot be overfull ..., strange.... besides the bottom left contact switch no longer has its metal rod to count coins.




Well, not very young this 873. It was born in October 24, 1973.




The bottom of the box behind the hopper is relatively clean, and there is no apparent trace of big changes.




I suspected its source, now there is no doubt !!!




The bell, which rings only from a certain payment, which I would find out later which one.
Below the system that releases the arm when a coin is inserted.




Small information on wiring circuits.




The wiper plate assembly. There is a welded wire on the first wiper plate, I do not know if this is normal.




Wiper plates again, notched ratchet wheels filled with grease. I think this grease is not helpful. We can see again the cable strand with electrical tape.




Small set of coils behind the third wiper plate.




The continuation in the next episode !

IFFV68:
Those are Cool looking machines.
I hope they work for you.

Nurbo:
Hello,




For those who would not have already guessed, I'm in France, with a mains voltage of 220 volts. The machine has been sold to me to operate in 110 volt.

I  look over your Bally 809, because ultimately the two machines are close enough and the two transformers are 122-105.

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The selected solution was to preserve the 110 volt wiring and use a voltage converter 220 --> 110 volts.


So I took a 110 volt power, I changed the fuse and I prayed ...

Mamamia !!!!!!!!Once again there was light ! The general illumination works and no smoke or blown fuse.

By cons I did not want to put the reel or the hopper, there's a time when we have to take time and not rush. This restoration will be long, there is anyway little chance that the machine operates without a big revision.

This time I left the power on longer, I pressed the switch that has the coin, I can hear the sound but nothing happens with the lights that indicates how much coins are played.

So I removed the head where the counting relays are located, they are behind the top glass.




Below I think that it is the basic system of counting. I feel that the bottom coil is operated at each coin.
At each coin, the ratchet wheel rotates in the direction of clockwise, and when the handle is actuated, the black coil (burned elsewhere I have to find the reference) releases the ratchet wheel. There is a cam extending from that coil to the springs but the reflection of the flash masks it.




Nine coils should indicate payment for the number of coins played. I realize that on the photo they are 2 black coils, I must see if they are also burned.




Another view.




The contact plate disc behind the white ratchet wheel.




The continuation in the next episode !

OldReno:
Great pics.
You know, you can check each of those coils with just two jumper wires.  Connect one jumper to the orange (70) 50V wire, and the other jumper to the 30 (yellow) common wire, and touch each one to each side of your coil under test.  Actually, just clip the jumper onto a 70 wire on any coil, and then use the 30 wire to touch on the NON orange side of each coil you want to test.
Just because a coil is blackened does not mean it does not work.

Nurbo:
Hello,


Well, that's it, I'm really working on the restoration of the  Bally 873.

It may take a lot of time before it is all beautiful like the Bally 809 of Chicki, but we will work on it !


Upon reflection, I will leave the machine in 110V, because with my first tests I think I have already burned ballasts neon and it is useless to persist needlessly.

For the rest of the restoration of this machine, I chose to carry my repairs on the "5 pay line feature unit".

It is this set which manages the number of coins played, triggering payment of the hopper, resets at the end of a party ... all managed by coil and switch and a ratchet wheel.

Below is the diagram of the coils correspondence.




There are 2 things I do not understand the purpose / function, the BAR relay ???
Report to the BAR symbol ??? If so why on this symbol and not on the other ones ... ???


And what is the use of the S relay flasher coil , or rather what is the use of this little flasher lamp ?
Because it is situated behind the board with light bulbs, so I guess it should not be very visible ??? 


The front face that illuminates the upper glass symbolizing the lines played. According to the documentation, all the bulbs are # 44.






According to the visual aspect, it seems that the coils #11: Line unit Step-Up and #12 relay: Line unit reset relay are burned. The paper is black and brittle.
There are two coils G-31-1800.




Looking at the assembly of the ratchet wheel, another coil is in the same condition, it is the # 32: Reset coil.
It is a C-28-1100 coil.
All these coils will have to be changed.




There will be a lot of cleaning. All the wires are very dirty, I have doubt in the color of some of them. All metal parts are also in poor cosmetic condition.




The contact plate disc does not seem too damaged, and that's a good piece of news.




Now that I have finished taking pictures, I can start cleaning this 5-line pay feature unit !

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