AboutRodger Knutson Expertise I am an expert on old coin operated machines, slot machines, trade stimulator's, jukeboxes, old arcade machines, etc. I have been identifying these for people who respond to my web site listed below, for a few years now. In almost all cases I am able to tell them about their old coin operated machines, the year, the value, and other general information about their machines. I do not know much about soda vending machines, coin banks, or scales, but I will try to help you with these if I can. Please email photo's to: jackpot7@ix.netcom.com My web site is at: http://www.coinslots.com
Experience I bought my first slot machine, a .50 Cent Mills Black Cherry in 1969 and have been hooked from that time, I still have that Slot machine! Before that I found a open barrel full of old scraped jukebox wall boxes behind a restaurant, I wanted them all but never took a one of them. Anything that took a coin drove me nuts!
Question QUESTION: on a bally series e 1000 slot machine the wheel mechanism wont stop spinning?when i run the self test it works! go figure. any advice will help thanks.
ANSWER: Hi Randy,
Oooo Yes! The Bally E-1000 series. Great work horse machine when there working and happy, yours seams a little upset? Tell me this, did you ever get an err code? Can you get the machine out of tilt long enough to get it to except a coin so you can get the err code off the coins played led display?, if so, what is the code? it will flash; coins played-,err code,-coins played -err code. What is the code? If you can get that insert coin light on, and play a coin WITH the door closed and locked, when you pull the handle you will get a tilt and a err code.
Thank You
Rodger
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QUESTION: I should have put that in my question sorry the error code is 71.000 we have a repair book that say position on the 1st reel is not able to obtain a consistent reading.i have checked the real 1 all the lights next to the reels come on then the machine tilts. most of the time the machine tilts as soon as you put the coin in. but when it does work and it does let you pull the handle it wont stop spinning.but the self test works fine?
ANSWER: Randy,
Code 71 great. OK, my money is on a bad reel reader. Take the reel reader off the left reel as you look in the machine, and put it in place of the right reel reader. Then put the right reader on the left reel. (swapping the left reader with the right reader) Code 71 is a reel 1 problem. code 73 would be a problem with reel 3 (right reel). If you swap the readers and then try the game again and see if you get a code 73 this time. If you do get a code 73 this time, then you know that reader is bad. I have a couple of both types of reel readers, lights or inferred, if you find you need one. There were two types of readers in early Bally's, E-1000's almost always had the type with lights that could see in the reel readers, the E-2000's had inferred and you could not see them. The early ones with the lights are very scarce now and hard to find anywhere. Please let me know how we did, OK? Remove the reel readers via the two vertical screws on the front of the reel mechanism, and pull the wiring plug off the bottom of the reader, they are easy to change.
Thank You
Sincerely
Rodger Knutson http://www.coinslots.com
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QUESTION: Rodger the slot is stopping great now but now it doesn't like to drop the coins down correctly .they pass right to the tray.they are not reading the coin.But if i open the door and flip the little wire it works.It has power to it.could the coin comparator be bad?
Answer Great on the reel reader!
Lets assume that your insert coin is lit on the front door, is it? well if it is, then I would guess it has something to do with the coin comparator, they are very funny that way. Check the very small wires going to the comparator plug, turn off the machine and maybe pull out that little plug, and put it back in, close and lock the front door as this puts it in a different state, and plug it in and see if the coin insert light comes back on and try a coin again. They do act up like that and I haven't a clue, most problems are one of those small wires going to the compactor plug as people pull on the wires to pull the plug out and they can't take that, they break, or wire pulls out inside the insulation. If the insert coin light is on and you can get it to work, throw it out in the street where there is heavy traffic and stick in a mechanical coin mechanism or better yet a imonex (http://www.imonex.com/) with no moving parts, the best in my book. A amusement distributor or route operator can fix you up with either one. If you don't have a insert coin light, well that is something else like maybe still in the test state. Mess around with that coin comparator and you might get Lucky, I have on several occasions and my guess is the small wire inside the compairtor plug gets broken in side the inselation, and also, always check you fuses with a tester as they can and do burn out on the ends where you can't see them, they can look like new and be blown, I seen it many times so alwasy use a tester to see if there good. If you don't have any luck, go to the standard coin mechenism, then you can't go wrong.
Thank You
Sincerely
Rodger Knutson http://www.coinslots.com
