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Thanks Scoobyemu for the machines over the moon with them 😁😁😁

Yes mate, well deposit paid pending collection

Easily the best setting imo, they were great to play back in the day. i am trying to get "jokers wild" on that setting, i have changed the win values(on the ten quid version) and have it set to 10p £4.80 or £5 and £8 jackpots the £8 version plays great melons =£1 bars=£2 7's =£4 and jokers £8. hopefully i can get it to 20p play as i would love to have it on that setting rather than the flat 10p/£4

Yeah I sent Dave a load of pictures, he mentioned bonfire night lol

Lottery has roms and card and it's very tidy There are rom cards lying about the place, will try and scoop em up

the roden family owned rodstock and after it went under started crown leisure crown leisure then became a play thing of trevor hemmings the race horse and pontins owner hence why crown leisure had an office in an old pontins office in eccleston still going but nothing like the old company in size

clear bathroom sealant holds bulbs on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHGaWQZfAAw&feature=sharehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDt1rwPWr9w&feature=share Short and sweet theres a few bulbs need sorting but huge thanks to midibob for his work on the boards great to see it running again after what looks like years

Thanks for all your interest but . . I can't let it go for any less than £250 The machine is located in Balderton Newark. (netdent maybe a little far for you maybe) If anyone is still interested let me know. Cheers Chris Goldmine.mp4

Here's one for you... Development team. The older gent was Charles Weekes, a mentor, what a guy, we've all grown used to stepper reel units? They were his brainchild. More in future stories. Left to right. David Mead, Tony Braggins, Ron Watts, yours truly, Charles Weekes, Charles (Bingham) Hazel.

1974, My first days at JPM I was shown how to put together the component parts of the "flasher assembly" or the "reel unit" that carries the symbols that you see spinning when you press the start button. What some of you newer (MPU?) guys may not know is that it's final resting position actually enabled the win by allowing an electric current to flow through the unseen pairs of contacts that were 'wiped' over by a pair of conductive brushes or wipers not unlike the underneath of a scalextric car (remember those). This was the complete randomness of the machine, their was no percentage controller, no way to inhibit wins. When 240v mains current was used (god forbid) the circuits actually used to arc or flash hence the 'Flasher' description. In previous days the electrical rotary switch, for that is what it is, was used extensively in machines such as the “Bally Bingo” and due to the unhealthy atmosphere (in those days) in pubs and arcades the contacts used to quickly get gummed up with fluff, grease and tobacco grime. Folk lore has it that one enterprising engineer who was particularly fed up with cleaning the grease out with a cloth thought it would be a great idea to use a little petrol soaked tooth brush to clean the contacts which on the face of it might seems an entirely plausible endeavour. Unfortunately the confined area he was in concentrated the fumes and he didn't notice the build up so when he powered up the mains and the machine started up, the flashers did just that, and well the rest can be imagined. I guess Fireball is a good name for a machine? Don't be under any illusion that JPM was always the well oiled machine it turned out to be. It all started in a garage in Porthcawl in about 1972 although the guys had been 'busy' converting machines to the new decimal coinage.The new coin values didn't exactly fit with the percentage values that had been used to create the products and the minor changes or botches that were used to make the machine 'fit' the percentage often screwed up game play. One trick was to inhibit the machine's ability to stop on a winning line, this was done buy either filling in the cog on the reel unit that allowed the solenoid brake to drop, or connecting a feed from the preceding contact on the wiped surface which kept the solenoid active long enough to let the jackpot pass.In any case the guys realised that by making their own glasses, changing the reel bands, rewiring the flasher and re-programming the rotary timers the machine could be revamped and game play enhanced, hence the Conversion kit market was started although they took in a machine and revamped it over night, while still keeping their day jobs. It didn't take long before they found a manufacturer to make cabinets and buying old broken machines they cannibalized parts to build new ones eventually buying all new parts. From their to the old ACE Coin building in Ferry Road, Cardiff took quite a short period of time and the wobbly foundations of the company were laid. Regards Frank Bird ............ Continued. ...........