Coin Slot Magazine - #066 - 1980 - August [International Arcade Museum]
Letters to the Editor continued
the FREE PLA Y run. Mills made FREE PLA Yjackpots, front
venders, straight Bells and a bunch of other models.
And you're right. While the mechnaism is of the SILENT
vintage, and takes Coin Slot Guide No. 8, the rest of the
mechanism is all its own. You'll have to wait awhile for the
answer as it will all be in Coin Slot Guide No. 99 with the other
free play models. Sorry about that.
Regards,
Editor
Dear Coin Slot,
I was a slot machine mechanic in Nevada for 10 years,
working on mostly Mechanical Mill, Pace, Jennings, Comet and
a few of the newer Bally Electrics. Regarding your subscriber
Ralph Goodlet, June,
1980 requesting information on his
Electric Universal 2-way ArrowBell, what I used to do when I
ran across a situation like his where no service info was
available, I contacted someone who was familiar with pinball
machine maintenance. A good pinball man can usually figure
out a machine even with no wiring diagram as long as he knows
the end result—E.E. what combination pays what.
out of the line) so the numbers are too small. Add to that thefact
that your machine is the Mills FREE PLA Y JA CKPOT, with
all sorts of "free play" (free play ifyou get a lemon on the first
reel) models being made between 1929 and 1931, and you should
I live in Arizona and unfortunately Arizona is one of the white
states on your slot machine map. In this case white doesn't mean
have a "Poinsettia" in the upper range ofserials. The only guess
good when it comes to slots. They won't let us have them, not yet
painted them on their machines) and not the original Mills
anyway.
is that these are operators numbers (they often stamped or
serial.
Thank you,
As for dates on the front of Mills Bells. Yes, they did stop
Monte Coffman
putting them on the "177611919" Bells, but after they changed
Dear Mr. Coffman,
started up
the cabinet design and had the banner ribbon at the bottom they
Thank you for youi response to a reader's question. We
certainly appreciate your sharing of information that can be of
help.
with
dates once again
with
the
"1776/1923"
OPERA TOR BELL. That ran for another few years until they
took the numbers off again with the 1926 OPERATOR BELL
"Bullseye". These cabinet designs a/id dated fronts are well
You're right! White is not necessarily a sign of "the good
guys"; especially when you're looking at our map. We haven't
described and illustrated in Coin Slot Guides No. 17 and No. 24.
heard much from Arizona.
Editor
How are you coming on your
legislation?
Again thank you for your helpful response.
Dear Coin Slot,
Sincerely,
Please renew my subscription to Coin Slot.
Editor
Also, do you ever intend to publish articles on how to root out
old coin machines?
Dear Coin Slot,
Can you tell me why my Mills Pointsettia (with jackpot) has
two serial numbers? On the left top it has 4809, on the right top it
has 3954.
On the Pointsettia I've enclosed a photo—the reels are
awaiting new strips, which is why they're out of the machine.
Incidentally, this is a "free play" machine, there is one symbol on
the left strip that provides a free play.
Dick Bueschel's "100 MostCollectible Slots" book says Mills
stopped putting the date on machines after 1920-21, but I have a
COK with side vendor that has 1924 on the ribbon to the right of
the bell.
Thank you,
Martin Roenigk
© The International Arcade Museum
Enjoy your pub!
Guil Jones
Dear Mr. Jones,
Thanks for your renewal. Early renewals make us even more
enthusiastic about the magazine.
We will certainly publish articles on how to root out old slot
machines or any other coin operated machines. All we need is
someone to write the articles. Presently our current staff is very
busy with other assignments, but we welcome articlesfrom our
readers.
Thanks again for your renewal and we're happy to hear that
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Sincerely,
you enjoy the magazine.
Sincerely,
Editor
Dear Coin Slot,
I have two slots, a Callie Superior Jackpot Bell, in excellent
working order and a Columbia, which isn't working. That's my
AUGUST, 1980
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