Coin Slot Magazine - #067 - 1980 - September [International Arcade Museum]
tell from the photo the front is very dull. Was the front plated? If
so, with what? If not what can I clean it with? The front is
painted around the award card, reel window, and the words:
Jak-Pot. How was it painted when new. What colors, and what
kind of paint should I use? In several parts of my Bantam a
shouldered screw has been stripped, do you know how to replace
or repair these?
Thank you,
Gary Merrill
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THE
EDITOR
Dear Editor,
I just
purchased
a
Slot
Machine
"Duchess"
Modeby
Rufflerand Walker London England 50c #30.1 am interested in
purchasing any information (instructions, Service Manual) that
are available. Please mail me a return if you can help me.
Thank you,
Gary R. Sobiek
5109 W. Dakin
Chicago, IL 60641
Dear Gary;
You make a good point, and one that we haven't even
considered. We have all gotten so carried away with the joy of
finding and restoring (even buying and selling, one ofthe hidden
enthusiasms of slot machine collecting) American antique slot
machines we hardly give a second thought to the foreign
machines. They don't command the collector interest—nor the
prices—of the American machines. That's not to say they aren't
as clever, or as muchfun. They are, and a lot offoreign machines
rival their American counterparts in mechanics and aesthetics.
But, sadly, therejust hasn't been that much interest in them to
date, and even The Coin Slot Guide series hasn't made provision
for any late English machines in the list of the first 200. A few
foreign machines are being covered—for instance, Coin Slot
Guide No. 81for the Caille BEN HUR will also cover the French
La Caille and the British Bolland COMMERCIAL, a similar
machine—but until the population of these machines gets to the
point that they are numerically important, until some adver
tising and literature is found, and until an actual manual
becomes available, they probably won't be part ofour inventory
of available literature. But you've made us think about it, so it's
in our mind.
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such as running an ad in THE WORLD'S FAIR, a publication
similar to our THE BILLBOA RD. It just might work.
Bantam. Serial number 4971, with a single (Jak-Pot) on the
front. Could you tell me what year this was made? As you can
© SEPTEMBER,
The International 1980
Arcade Museum
Dear Gary;
What you've got is an absolutely beautiful Pace BANTAM
JAK-POT of 1929. Beautiful is hardly the word.
With the
exception of the worn reward card—which is to be expected,
and it isn't that bad—your machine is truly something to behold.
So why wreck it by plating it or going overboard on a
"restoration". It's a matter ofopinion, ofcourse, but the way the
slots of old are being "restored"far beyond their originality are
starting to make them all look "too good". In short, they're
becoming unreal
Your machine is old, for a BA NTA M. The Pace name is at the
bottom, showing it to be thefirst run. The serial of4971 dates it,
and its colors and trim are just fine. No, the cabinet wasn't
plated. It was natural aluminum which was bright in its day but
has dulled off over the years—51 years to be exact. You're
looking at the right colors—orange, black and blue trim on
natural aluminum—so ifyou repaint just repeat the same thing.
Use enamel—they did—orfaster drying lacquer. And ifyou have
to replate, don't use chrome. Better yet, just clean it up.
Incidentally, the machine is described on page 48 of the first
volume of "An
Illustrated Price
Guide to the 100 Most
Collectible Slot Machines", Vol. 1.
Editor
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