Bally rebuild hopper from credit meter to payout hopper

[SPN]

I’m buying a lot of Bally em machines and some of the machines are coinless, only credit meter..

I have tried the coinless hopper in a machine that normally use payout hopper and it seams to work but I’m wondering if its easy to install the payout unit to the counter hopper?

Is it anyone here who have any experience doing that?

 

[wolftalk]

I'd guess it depends on which credit-only hopper unit you had.

early games like the 847-1 had different frame parts on the hopper unit and had the score motor on the hopper.

later games like the 910 moved the score motor into the machine and the hopper frame parts were the standard ones with a front plate instead of the coin parts.

your pic is in between what I've seen diagrams for in the bally 500, 1100 and 1100 supplement manuals.  You have the score motor on the unit but also more of the standard frame bracket pieces.

in any case, if you just have a donor coin hopper unit, you can almost certainly just transfer the payout counter unit to it and make it work.  You may or may not need to transfer the payout relay. 

if you have the standard frame credit-only hopper, you should be able to bolt on the coin hopper parts in existing holes.

I assume there's no safety circuits for detecting issues with the hopper in the credit-only machine, so you'd need to decide if you care about that.

is the coin diverter still on the credit-only games so you can make coins go into the hopper?

[SPN]

I’m picking up a large lot of machines next weekend and I think 5 of them are continental machines with credit only machine that I want to rebuild those and I hope it’s possible

Thanks for the info Sir.

[wolftalk]

some of the machines did both coin and credit.  The operating mode was selectable via a key switch on the side of the cabinet.  The 847 was coin pay, the 847-1 credit, and 847-2 both.

I don't recall seeing an 847-1, so please post or email to slotpics@cdyn.com lots of hi-res pics of the credit-only machines you get.

[SPN]

Yes I will send you some more info when I get the machines, one of them are a Bally bingo with both credit and payout, and I was told that the game are in very good condition 😊