JUST A SUMMARY OF A RECENT FIX IN A NORTH WALES ARCADE last week and a brief how they work if you were at all curious how the pay out coins get higher than the coins going off the rear of the belt??? I WAS WHEN I FIRST SAW STREETS WHEEL EM IN in 1960s a a kid.. the system has hardly changed in half a century. but upgraded to electronic from electro- mechanical, like most arcade stuff
got quite black with dust first day (in a white work shirt) but all working after return visit (in a black shirt - i deliberately have both)) and this takes a lot of coins in its daily work so does suffer the odd breakdown A FEW TIPS IF YOU HAVE ONE or want one in future maybe
wrote this as brief post in WANTED but as you can see got carried away at the keyboard so re-posting in fixes it may help other members to get one working ???
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there are still some of the Cromptons pink ROLL A WIN ones about i had 2 and just LAST WEEK REPAIRED ONE I HAVE MAINTAINED for over 2 decades in Abergele ( can be seen on a google images 'roll a coin' in 2011 ) they are very heavy but only two bays wide
one of mine was in the drive for over a year no-one wanted it ...... so stripped and smashed it and the spare parts went via ebay but i still had some bits from the previous one i retired from use.....
Lucky that,, as i am the freelance engineer of the one in Pensarn Pleasure Beach arcade AND IT BROKE DOWN BADLY AS THEY DO .....last month .....the main belt motor packed up these cost about £275 normally ........ some other parts can still be bought new for them as its also had several other repairs over the last 25 years
i had a motor that was ok but a bit squeaky theirs was seized and the splined pulley was very rough and it had chewed the belt which was also hard and brittle the dust of its decay had clogged the motor via the vent holes
IT STILL LIVES NOW.. i searched their store room which has the odd parts off other games and they had a diamonds 8 sided pusher motor with its octopus drive rods still attached and stuck to the shaft so took that home to adapt as it was sweet as new otherwise when i tested it on the bench AND I ORDERED A NEW BELT 5/8 wide 95 teeth at 5tpi rescued my almost like new pulley off the squeaky running motor , stripped the octopus arrangement off the nice diamonds forever motor and rigged it with my mounting plate and pulley ,,,, the plate is slotted at mount to frame and plate to motor so a belt of 95 teeth i could get (19") comfortably replaced the (20") 100 teeth one which is now obsolete at that 5/8" width (i find, but some belt dealers may have it or make it if desired)
this bay had had little attention but i recall fitting a front/back coin belt new about 3 years ago , and about a year before that it needed a top elevator spindle and bearings where the coins lift to the payout hopper.... the other bay had a complete exchange of bed mat frame and motor when the belt ripped across half way jamming and burned the motor out but i still had a full unit to slip in and repair next day ....... lucky again but the coin bottom belt and the bearings where still available when i tracked them down.
in another arcade (Dunes) a single player version i used to work on needed a rear roller and bearing as lack of grease the bearings seized one side and got 'smokey hot' one day, and the centre ball run of the bearing wore through the rear shaft in a few of days i noticed it was loose and ordered a rear roller and bearings but the guy wanted keep it on (silly man) and by time i went back the next week it fell apart completely he scrapped it a while later? as his bed belt had stretched a bit in the collapse after spending £135 on a rear roller and paying me.. I think rollers from games like grand national and other newer 'roll in' belt games fit each other if same width as do the main motors interchange between pushers and games like 4 sided Luxor flick in the square coin lander games?
to see how they work there's a you tube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DdUncCCQsQ and it saves me some explaining tho its play sound only..
[tube]4DdUncCCQsQ[/tube]
however... it goes live when a coin goes through the entry slot and the lower belt goes reverse to the elevator hopper for 30 - 40 coins then when the hopper goes up to the top to fill the hopper the lower belt goes forward and fills the cash box takings accessed from the front door. the belt runs all the time its powered so very long hours and the coin if on target passes over two opto sensors set wide for the 10p / £1 payout with a just coin width white landing area ..so has strict width (narrow) tolerance and a bit closer for 10p or 20 p payouts and the belt black lines are wider too.. just to give you a bit of a chance , The coin has to break both opto beams to pay out .. the elevator hopper goes to the top at power ON in case its part filled when turned off the previous day else it might overflow ? this makes it hard to remove the outer cover box if it happens and fills with coins , there's hardly a fault i have never met with these arcade games so if you find one i am here to answer most questions on them .
got bit carried away with topic here so will put on fixes also to be of help to members acquiring or owning one? AS SAID also on wanted with a late extra edit after i pressed 'control C' to re-post here.
Hurray Banana2021-07-09 20:04:17
got quite black with dust first day (in a white work shirt) but all working after return visit (in a black shirt - i deliberately have both)) and this takes a lot of coins in its daily work so does suffer the odd breakdown A FEW TIPS IF YOU HAVE ONE or want one in future maybe
wrote this as brief post in WANTED but as you can see got carried away at the keyboard so re-posting in fixes it may help other members to get one working ???
transferred post:
there are still some of the Cromptons pink ROLL A WIN ones about i had 2 and just LAST WEEK REPAIRED ONE I HAVE MAINTAINED for over 2 decades in Abergele ( can be seen on a google images 'roll a coin' in 2011 ) they are very heavy but only two bays wide
one of mine was in the drive for over a year no-one wanted it ...... so stripped and smashed it and the spare parts went via ebay but i still had some bits from the previous one i retired from use.....
Lucky that,, as i am the freelance engineer of the one in Pensarn Pleasure Beach arcade AND IT BROKE DOWN BADLY AS THEY DO .....last month .....the main belt motor packed up these cost about £275 normally ........ some other parts can still be bought new for them as its also had several other repairs over the last 25 years
i had a motor that was ok but a bit squeaky theirs was seized and the splined pulley was very rough and it had chewed the belt which was also hard and brittle the dust of its decay had clogged the motor via the vent holes
IT STILL LIVES NOW.. i searched their store room which has the odd parts off other games and they had a diamonds 8 sided pusher motor with its octopus drive rods still attached and stuck to the shaft so took that home to adapt as it was sweet as new otherwise when i tested it on the bench AND I ORDERED A NEW BELT 5/8 wide 95 teeth at 5tpi rescued my almost like new pulley off the squeaky running motor , stripped the octopus arrangement off the nice diamonds forever motor and rigged it with my mounting plate and pulley ,,,, the plate is slotted at mount to frame and plate to motor so a belt of 95 teeth i could get (19") comfortably replaced the (20") 100 teeth one which is now obsolete at that 5/8" width (i find, but some belt dealers may have it or make it if desired)
this bay had had little attention but i recall fitting a front/back coin belt new about 3 years ago , and about a year before that it needed a top elevator spindle and bearings where the coins lift to the payout hopper.... the other bay had a complete exchange of bed mat frame and motor when the belt ripped across half way jamming and burned the motor out but i still had a full unit to slip in and repair next day ....... lucky again but the coin bottom belt and the bearings where still available when i tracked them down.
in another arcade (Dunes) a single player version i used to work on needed a rear roller and bearing as lack of grease the bearings seized one side and got 'smokey hot' one day, and the centre ball run of the bearing wore through the rear shaft in a few of days i noticed it was loose and ordered a rear roller and bearings but the guy wanted keep it on (silly man) and by time i went back the next week it fell apart completely he scrapped it a while later? as his bed belt had stretched a bit in the collapse after spending £135 on a rear roller and paying me.. I think rollers from games like grand national and other newer 'roll in' belt games fit each other if same width as do the main motors interchange between pushers and games like 4 sided Luxor flick in the square coin lander games?
to see how they work there's a you tube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DdUncCCQsQ and it saves me some explaining tho its play sound only..
[tube]4DdUncCCQsQ[/tube]
however... it goes live when a coin goes through the entry slot and the lower belt goes reverse to the elevator hopper for 30 - 40 coins then when the hopper goes up to the top to fill the hopper the lower belt goes forward and fills the cash box takings accessed from the front door. the belt runs all the time its powered so very long hours and the coin if on target passes over two opto sensors set wide for the 10p / £1 payout with a just coin width white landing area ..so has strict width (narrow) tolerance and a bit closer for 10p or 20 p payouts and the belt black lines are wider too.. just to give you a bit of a chance , The coin has to break both opto beams to pay out .. the elevator hopper goes to the top at power ON in case its part filled when turned off the previous day else it might overflow ? this makes it hard to remove the outer cover box if it happens and fills with coins , there's hardly a fault i have never met with these arcade games so if you find one i am here to answer most questions on them .
got bit carried away with topic here so will put on fixes also to be of help to members acquiring or owning one? AS SAID also on wanted with a late extra edit after i pressed 'control C' to re-post here.
Hurray Banana2021-07-09 20:04:17
