Coin Slot Magazine - #070 - 1980 - December [International Arcade Museum]
Letters to the Editor continued
the Jennings OPERA TOR BELL with a new front and a
jackpot. Actually, the nickname is the "Blue Boy".
We've got
Guide
No.
41
Jennings
OPERATOR
BELL/AUTOMATIC COUNTER VENDER at the printer
and it should be out in another 30 to 60 days. That'll give you the
basic Bell mechanism stuff.
A seperate Coin Slot Guide is projected for the Jennings
JACK-POTIJACKPOT "Blue Boy" series, but it's Guide No.
149 and projected in the second hundred series of these guides.
So you've got a long wait for that one. But we'll bet No. 41
answers most of your questions.
There's another possibility. You say "Dutch Boy/ Dutch
Girl". That front was on the OPERATOR BELL and
A UTOMA TIC COUNTER VENDER models (as well as some
models of the TODA Y vender; see Coin Slot Guide No. 31
available very soon) and dropped on the JA CK-POT. But some
of thejack pot makers made a "Dutch Boy/Dutch Girl"front to
put on the old Jennings OPERATOR BELL machines,
specifically Rock-ola, Keeney and a few others. These odd-ball
jackpotfronts are covered in a seperate Coin Slot Guide coming
up called No. 70 Pace/Rockola/National/Service Jackpot
Fronts. It's one of the most interesting guides we've got in the
works because it covers all sorts of machines and their fronts
that are covered nowhere else, not even back in the days when
they were first made in the 1928-1938 period.
The Editor
Dear Editor,
A couple of months ago I ordered and received your booklet
#5. (A Guide to the CLUB CHIEF and STANDARD CHIEF.)
• WANTED •
—
unrestored,
incomplete
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mechanism.
BOOK MUSIC for Street/Fair Organ — 60 key
Limonaire or Continental Scale. Also need
46/48 key music.
10$ JENNINGS VICTORIA — $1600
20 Foot Diameter HERSCHELL-SPILLMAN
CAROUSEL with 16 jumpers and several extra
horses — $2500
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NICKELODEON — $4250
BRUCE MILLER
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about this but received no reply.
I subscribe to "The Coin Slot" and certainly intend to renew
when due. It is a fine magazine and I, like the many other
readers, am happy indeed to see you put the prices that various
machines bought in the auctions. Keep up the good work.
Thanking you in advance for any information that might be
forthcoming, I am.
Sincerely,
Gus Schoppman
Dear Gus;
Gee, Gus. I thought we answered you one time before. But
maybe not. So here's the story.
Glad you like Coin Slot Guide No. 5 for the Jennings CLUB
CHIEF, and that it's so helpful. Helpful, that is, exceptfor the
Jennings TWIN PLA Y CHALLENGER, which has a different
coin accepting system and cabinet.
Well, the TWIN PLA Y CHALLENGER is listed on Guide
No. 5 because it has a same mechanism, so if the problem is a
mechanical one with the Bell mechanism the guide can help.
At the time the TWIN PLA Y CHALLENGER was listed in
the guide it looked that might be the only place it would be as no
Jennings CHALLENGER manuals were known. But since that
time one has shown up, and will serve as the basisfor Coin Slot
guide No. 90 for the Jennings CHALLENGER in its many
models, as well as the later Andrews and Advance semi-
electronic models that were revamped in Maryland in the 1960s.
It'll be a good guide for you and have all the coin acceptor and
cabinet data. The only problem is . . . well. . . it's No. 90, and
that guide won't be written and printedfor about a year. But it's
on the way, so here's hoping you can wait.
Dear Editor,
Please send me informational literature on how to repair slot
machines.
I have two 25c machines serial #128219 & #410518, also a 5c
BLUE SEAL #43623 machine.
Any cost for the literature please send C.O.D. I thank you
very much.
• FOR SALE •
WEBER
However, on the inside cover it states that it is a guide to the
TWIN PLAY CH ALLANGER which has an entirely different
coin accepting mechanism.
I have a TWIN PLAY and would like to know if you know
where I can get some information on same. I have written before
Best regards;
WATLING TWIN JACKPOT BLUE SEAL Slot
Machine
I have used it often reparing STANDARD CHIEFS and
ordering various parts by number. It is well worth the cost.
* ¥A 22160
Yours Truly,
Ervin J. Serwick
Dear Ervin;
It's pretty hard to identify a slot machine by serial number
alone without the name of the manufacturer or some kind of
description, preferably a picture. But maybe we can do it. Well
try.
That 128,219 serial sounds like a Jennings serial from the
CHIEF series, circa 1937, and that is serviced by Coin Slot
Guide No. 2 for the Jennings CHIEF.
The 410,518 serial could only be a Mills, and it's right in the
middle of the BLUE FRONT ("Castle Front") and CHERR Y
CBursting Cherry") range ofmystery-payout machines. So that
would be serviced by Coin Slot Guide No. 15 for the Mills
MYSTERY.
Your description of a 5c BLUE SEAL, serial 43,623, is the
best description you sent, and that's a Watlingfor sure. It's a late
BLUE SEAL, and probably the TWIN JACKPOT. It will be
serviced by Coin Slot Guide No. 51.
Continued on page 14
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