Coin Slot Magazine - #067 - 1980 - September [International Arcade Museum]
Note: Your editor was stumped with this one, so we passed the
put this unique (and Tm sure rare) early electric console back
pictures to writer Dick Bueschel He came back with this answer
together. And you can help me, too, as well as other collectors.
and the artwork.
Seeing as you have the only game in town, and the Coin Slot
Guide will need photos, would you mind shooting a roll or two
August 4, 1980
of b&w 35mm film of the machine as you restore it—all of it,
cabinet, mechanisms, parts and all—and send me the film. I'll
process, and even pay you for thefilm. We'll all get a good guide
Dear Richard;
Congratulations! I was wondering if one of these machines
would ever show up. The Coin Slot passedyour request letter to
me along with your photos, and the machine is unmistakable.
You've got an Exhibit Supply Company CHUCK-A-LETTE!
Exhibit didn't want to be left out in the cold when electric
consoles came along, so they made one. It was completely out of
their area of experience in arcade machines, but they gave it the
shot and introduced the machine at the January 1937 coin
machine show in Chicago after six months of testing.
What happened was they got creamed. H.C. Evans (with
DOMINOS), J.H. Keeney (with KEEN-
KUBES), Buckley (with FLASHING IVORIES) and a host of
GALLOPING
other console makers came out about the same time, and the
Exhibit machine and its variations died. It was offthe market in
a year.
To my knowledge none of these machines have shown up
before, and there's certainly no manuals or maintenance data
around. Well, until last month anyway. Buying a pig in a poke, I
shelled out a wad ofdoughfor a boxfull ofdirty, torn, smeared,
and super-dusty old drawings that supposedly came out of The
Exhibit Supply Company. Guess what? They did. After taking
two weeks to check every single drawing I found the original
pencil-on-tracing paper blueprint for the CHUCK-A-LETTE.
Naturally, this'II lead to a Coin Slot Guide for the line.
out of it.
Best regards;
Richard M. Bueschel
P.S. Those patent numbers are for the A.B.T. coin slide and
have nothing to do with the machine.
Dear Editor,
I have recently become interested in the hobby of Slot
Machines by purchasing a War Eagle, or Silent Bell, serial
number 268,320, which needs restoration. I was told by a
collector who knows you, Joe Algier, that you would be able to
answer some of my questions about restoration. They are as
follows:
I was told that to clean the mechanism, it could be glass
blasted since the inside is very dirty and has some rust. I would
like to know if glass blasting will get in the bearings or other
parts of the machine? Is glass blasting safe for the mechanism as
a whole? Also what parts should be taken off before glass
balsting? If this process is not recommended for the mechanism
what process would you suggest?
If I have to replace any parts besides screws and springs
should I try to find original parts? I have heard about companies
making imitation jackpot cards, pictures on wheels, and
owners instructions on the inside of the back panel. Do you
know where I could purchase these parts?
Here's a copy with my compliments, and maybe it'll help you
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