Coin Slot Magazine - #037 - 1978 - February [International Arcade Museum]
other areas where it isn't supposed to be.
Now if he were to take a
piece of hard finished cloth, like a douche towel for instance, or a piece
of bed sheet, and put lacquer thinner on it, and then if he were to scratch
it over a large cork he could rub around over the top of those letters
and clean those letters off in a fraction of the time that it takes him to
do the job with Q-tips.
It's quite an idea he has there, but too time
consuming.
Now when the Rol-A-Top first came out it was a solid casting.
There
wasn't any removable Horn-of-Plenty on the first models. And the horn-
of-plenty was not brass plated, it was painted. In many instances it
wasn't even painted, but simply left bare aluminum. Some were painted
gold. They changed it frequently because they wanted something cliff-
ferent to sell.
which isn't so.
ferently.
Now
plywood case.
Ben's article indicates there is only one way to do it,
Depending on the machine you had you did things dif
Ben had one of the newer machines because it had a
The older machines had hardwood cases made of solid
oak.
I'm sure Ben's machine is beautiful and a real showpiece.
But the meth
od he uses to restore it is for one machine only, one vintage of year. It"
isn't a set standard for all Rol-A-Tops.
depending on the year.
They were done differently
I believe Ben's machine was made in the last
year Watling made the Rol-A-Top.
It was only the last two or three*
years that the Rol-A-Tops had a removable horn-of-plenty. In fact, I
never saw a removable horn until I began restoring them. That's why
I know it had to be one of the last models.
Also, when these young collectors today are wondering what to buy,
and not wanting to pick up gimmicks, they must be very careful.
I
think collectors should know what originally went on a machine.
The other day I got a machine in that was a dime machine, but it had
a quarter hole in it.
the difference.
Now we know it didn't come out that way.
I know
These are things the collectors should know so he reali
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