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Good afternoon everyone. No-one seems to have posted in this section for nearly six months, so I thought I would. My brother moved house last year, and one of the boxes he found in his garage contained a lot of my paperwork, including, amongst other things, my 'O' level certificates from the dim and distant past. The box probably came from my parents' loft when we cleared it. Anyway, I discovered a folder full of Bell Fruit paperwork from when I worked there in the early '80s. There are various documents about fault finding MPUs (black box), adjusting coin mechs, cams and microswitches (electro) as well as schematics for Super Nudge Gambler, Nudge Gambler Mk3, Firecracker, 21 Up Mk2, Plus Ten Mk2 and Hot Dog. There's also a map showing how to find/access the factory in Leengate, a 'boozy guide' to Nottingham and information for the Hotel Talsta, which is where I stayed when attending my Grade 4 training/exam in 1981. I'm hoping the Nudge Gambler Mk3 schematic will suit my recently acquired Nudge Punter. I will try to scan the documents in the not too distant future - a job for a rainy afternoon. I'm not sure what I can do with the schematics, as they're a bit big for my scanner.

Sorry nick I forgot to post this. just to finish off the thread that bargains are rare but they our out there(I was lucky this time and hopefully another member will stumble across one in the near future).

Blimey, gold dust. I'm sure folks will be very pleased to see these in the downloads. With the diagrams can you take a high res picture, square on, if that makes sense. As long as the pic can be blown up to read the small text that would be great. Thanks in advance. Bob

Seems to be all good now been on a few hours so fingers cross

Glad you got that one sorted. Always a good place to start for freezing or intermittent boots etc is the the ROM cart socket. It can lose tension over the years and will definitely benefit from a good clean. You can use a burnisher for stubborn dirt/corrosion but it has to be extremely fine otherwise you'll strip the coating (is it gold??). Used in conjunction with some switch cleaner usually sorts it. If the pins have lost tension I usually slot a small jewellers screwdiver between the ouside of the connector and the side which just adds a slight bit more tension. If they become too tight you risk bending them during insertion of the card and as replacements are very hard to find you don't want to do that.

Cracking little machine this, i remember playing this in my local arcade a good few years back. here is the 10p/£4 roms if you would like them as back up. nudge bonanza 4 quid roms.zip

I had absolutely no idea that I had them. I did find some other schematics in a wardrobe at my parents’ house some 10+ years ago. I put them on eBay and they were bought by a member here, before I even knew this site existed.

Amazing find and thanks for sharing

Cheers have been over it big time I can find nothing! Will try the old diode back tomorrow

IIRC it just popped up on eBay one Sunday evening and I was on my way to Sheffield in less than 24 hours. I remember the seller messaged me saying “you know it doesn’t work’ and they couldn’t believe I was going to pay £50 for it. The machine was sold when the daughter was cleaning out her dads house before selling and she said it had been there since she was a kid(big posh house too).