Star Tech Journal
Issue: 1996-March - Vol 18 Issue 1 - Page 6
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March 1996
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COMMON CENTS COIN MECHS ...
Monitor
Proble111s?
Todd Erickson
Summit Amusement
St. Paul, Minnesota
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J\,IC:,N/TORS:
QUESTION
SYMPTOMS/SOLUTIONS
Why do we need two coin chutes
on our games?
Includes all S* TJ
monitor articles from
ANSWER
Easy, because neither side works!
1990, 1991, 1992,
1993, 1994 & 1995
01990
0 1991
01992
01993
01994
0 1995
PROBLEM
Why not have 3 - 5 chutes
on our best games like
Cruisin'. A full upright
should be able to accommo-
date 6 - 12 coin chutes. But
when a customer loses his
coin, the location will still
place your new 10 coin
chute game out of order!
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ceived a new Mars coin mech
called Cash Flow. I dropped a
large house key in the Cash Flow
and it fell right through! Impres-
sive.
Coin jams are about a
third of our total service
calls. The day is here when
we as game operators can no
longer tolerate this incompe-
tency from our industry.
Other proper synonyms might
be ignorance or stupidity. Our
customers who lose their money
and walk away from our games
(walk-aways) is about to end.
After a little more playing with
it, I installed it on a new pinball.
The results are in: No coin jams
in a little over a year! I repeat: No
CoinJams in Over a Year!
Now, several factors determine
coin jams. First is a magnet, sec-
ond is stopping the coin for any
reason -such as a cradle, and third
is the size of the items the coin
mech can clear. Common sense tells
us that if you never stop a coin, it
can't jam. About a year ago, I re-
Would this be a good mech for a
game like Cruisin'? My distribu-
tor doesn't think so. He says
eliminating coin jams is not a fac-
tor in determining whether a
Cash Flow is worth it. Of course:
it's not him driving 50 -100 miles
on a Friday night to clear a jam.
... . . . . . . . . . . .
March 1996
.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
COMMON CENTS COIN MECHS ...
Monitor
Proble111s?
Todd Erickson
Summit Amusement
St. Paul, Minnesota
Order This Tech Pub
J\,IC:,N/TORS:
QUESTION
SYMPTOMS/SOLUTIONS
Why do we need two coin chutes
on our games?
Includes all S* TJ
monitor articles from
ANSWER
Easy, because neither side works!
1990, 1991, 1992,
1993, 1994 & 1995
01990
0 1991
01992
01993
01994
0 1995
PROBLEM
Why not have 3 - 5 chutes
on our best games like
Cruisin'. A full upright
should be able to accommo-
date 6 - 12 coin chutes. But
when a customer loses his
coin, the location will still
place your new 10 coin
chute game out of order!
$14.95
$14.95
$14 .95
$14.95
$14.95
$14.95
Save over 30% order the
0 Entire set for $59. 95
Name:
--------~
Company _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
I
I
Address - - - - - - - - - -
t
I
: City
I
I
I State/Zip
I
I
I
I
I
I
I Order O Prepaid or o COD I
I
I
I
I
ll~:i"~R~{ECH Journal,.I
(Please add $3 s/h. Thank you!)
:c
s\t Office Box 3-51
e<:J'.fo rcl . Nl·~ oaoss:,1
1
:Jl .;;-
<:-
:;:~
.:•1111111:: . .;..:;;. . . ,,, _
, _ _ .,.~
ceived a new Mars coin mech
called Cash Flow. I dropped a
large house key in the Cash Flow
and it fell right through! Impres-
sive.
Coin jams are about a
third of our total service
calls. The day is here when
we as game operators can no
longer tolerate this incompe-
tency from our industry.
Other proper synonyms might
be ignorance or stupidity. Our
customers who lose their money
and walk away from our games
(walk-aways) is about to end.
After a little more playing with
it, I installed it on a new pinball.
The results are in: No coin jams
in a little over a year! I repeat: No
CoinJams in Over a Year!
Now, several factors determine
coin jams. First is a magnet, sec-
ond is stopping the coin for any
reason -such as a cradle, and third
is the size of the items the coin
mech can clear. Common sense tells
us that if you never stop a coin, it
can't jam. About a year ago, I re-
Would this be a good mech for a
game like Cruisin'? My distribu-
tor doesn't think so. He says
eliminating coin jams is not a fac-
tor in determining whether a
Cash Flow is worth it. Of course:
it's not him driving 50 -100 miles
on a Friday night to clear a jam.
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