Expert: Rodger Knutson - 3/19/2011

Question
I have a mills high top 25˘ machine. It will not always eject a nickel. I cannot figure how to set it to eject the nickel. can you help me out?

Answer
Hi Darrell,

I am not quite sure what you are wanting to know here, the Mills high top has a coin escalator that is a common one, and can be found of most mills machines. The escalator never really ejected any coins but did have a slot on the side or edge where a smaller coin might be allowed to roll out of the edge of the coin escalator and into a slug box mounted to the cabinet side. The coin escalator also had, or has a magnet to grab any slugs or foreign coins made of metal that pass by it. Knowing this, are you having nickels going into your .25 cent escalator and not rolling off into the slug box?, is this the problem your having? If so, keep in mind that these machines were made back in the 30's, and played by people who never spent a lot of time putting a nickel in a quarter machine, so this may not of been a big problem at the time. Outside of that, I think the next thing to do would be to pull out your escalator and try cleaning it real good and make sure that this side exit is clear and that all the original slug handling equipment is there on the escalator and working properly. I do have maybe a little better detailed drawing to the mills escalator that might help you check this out. If you would like me to email it to you, let me know.

Good luck on this little problem and if this is not what your working on, and if have it all wrong please let me know, and we will go from there OK?

Thank You
Rodger Knutson
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