Coin Slot Magazine - #058 - 1979 - December [International Arcade Museum]
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Dear Sir,
in a way.
To date no Watling manuals have ever
shown up, and there is no factory trouble-shooting
I received the two books, Guide to the "Black
chart or list of parts.
Cherry" and etc. and also the one on the Rol-
All Watling issued were
A-Tops in which I am not too satisfied with.
mechanism photos and call-outs, and these were
reproduced in the guide, as well as the photos of
the prototype machines and the patents for the
The Black Cherry Book is very informative but
the Rol-A-Tops is not very helpful.
coin heads.
I had thought
Sadly, that's all that has survived.
But the trouble shooting data in the Mills BLACK
that it would give some idea as to what makes
CHERRY
those
SUPERIOR No.
slots
tick
such as repairing and trouble
shooting any problem that arises.
No.
1,
Mills
3 and
SILENT No.
8,
Caille
Jennings CHIEF No. 2
manuals should give you a good idea of how to
handle any normal maintenance problems.
I would like to have a reply from you since
The
I have been a steady customer with you.
upcoming Watling BLUE SEAL guide now in work
should be of help, but that won't be out for a
while.
Sincerely,
In the meantime, here's the back panel
sheet from the BLUE SEAL to help you as much
as possible.
J. J. Machado
1728 Dalton Way
If you're really
Union City, Ca. 94587
disappointed
in
the Watling
manual, send it back and Coin Slot Books will
be glad to refund your money.
Dear Joe;
Best regards;
Many thanks for the list of serial numbers for
The Coin Slot "Serial Number Update".
I've in
Dick Bueschel
corporated the numbers in one of my updates,
so youl! see them coming up soon in the maga
zine.
You've got an interesting Mills SILENT "War
Eagle" there.
Dear Sirs,
That "Maltese Cross" looking de
nominator was the same thing they used in the
Do you have any written information (or books
very first introductions of the machine, and your
that might have something) on Mills Bell-o-matic
serial
number is the lowest one for an original
1969, I believe "MLB 9294 is the style or model
"War Eagle" I've yet heard of, so it seems you
numbers.
have one of the pilot models of January 1931.
This is shown in the original factory artwork for
Dear Marianne;
the SILENT which is reproduced in my Coin Slot
Guide No. 8 which is out now.
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Which leads to another subject.
repairing and trouble shooting any problem that
arises".
I'm sorry that you were disappointed in
the Watling ROL-A-TOP guide, but we all were
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As luck would have it. ...
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Coin Slot Books forwarded your letter of Octo
ber 16th asking if they had any written informa
tion or books about the Mills Bell-O-Matic 1969
FRONT OPEN Machine.
Would you believe it, this machine is scheduled
for a later Coin Slot Guide, and I have just started
to assemble the materials for the manual.
These
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