Coin Slot Magazine - #070 - 1980 - December [International Arcade Museum]
That was the good news. Now the bad. The Groetchen
SPARKS trade stimulator (what model do you have, inciden-
I hope you can be of help to me. Please bill me at the above
address for whatever you send.
tially? There werefour orfive!) is a beauty, butfor some reason
Sincerely,
no instruction manuals for any of these trade stimulators have
ever surfaced. We can only assume there were none. So, with
Katherine Tolman
(Mrs. Prescott Tolman)
don't know if and when a manual or a Coin Slot Guidefor the
machine will be created. Dick Bueschelhas completed his listing
of the 200 guides in work, and the SPARKS isn't among them.
There are two guides that might be close. Guide No. 68—
scheduledfor late 1981—covers the Groetchen 21 VENDER, 21
BLACKJACK and ZIG ZAG machines and might have some
common components, and Guide No. 192 for "Groetchen
Counter Games"—probably not ready until 1982—might cover
SPARKS, but not as a separate machine. So I guess you're out
of luck. Until some valid data and pictorial stuff shows up
SPARKS will probably remain an enigma. Do any readers have
SPARKS manuals, or any trade stimulator manuals for that
Dear Mrs. Tolman;
We don't have the complete answer yet, but we can get you
started on maintenance and repair information for your Pace
BANTAM. The series of Coin Slot Guides will feature this
nothing in hand, and no real wealth ofdata on SPA RKS wejust
machine and should be able to help you, except for thefact that
the Coin Slot Guide #79for the Pace BANTAM isn't scheduled
for quite some time, probably the middle of 1981. In the
meantime Coin Slot Guide #4 for the Pace COMETmight be of
some help to you as the machines have a number of common
components. At least it's something until the real thing comes
Editor
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Dear Editor;
Regards,
Editor
matter?
On July 31 I purchased a slot machine at the PB 84 auction.
Since this is the first machine I've owned I'm unfamiliar with the
mechanism. They pay out part doesn't seem to be working, and
I'm hoping that it only needs a slight adjustment.
I understand that you have re-printed many of the old slot
machine manuals, and I am hoping that you have a re-print of
the manual for my machine. Also I understand that you put out
a publication called The Coin S/of—which I would like to
subscribe to.
My machine is the Pace "BANTAM", three-reel, circa 1935,
with fortune reel strips and a jackpot. It was Lot 768 in the
Dear Editor,
First of all, I want to thank you for the Pace Auction Results.
It sure gave us a guide to go by. What would be nice, if there is a
way of determining how good each of the machines were.
In your coin slot guide #6 Mills' 21 BELL 7-7-7, which I will
get someday when I get enough pennies saved. I have what
appears to be a lc 7-7-7. SPECIAL AWARD $20.00. It looks
exactly like the picture on your guide, except it is $20.00 award
instead of $10.00. Could this be a 10c machine converted to a
penny? I had two people think its a 21 BELL 7-7-7.1 also found
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