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Hi All Just realised how late i am in getting back into the fruit machines of my youth........... Basically born and raised by the seaside. By the time i was 15 (1992) i was hanging out in mablethorpe arcades (Bingoland, funland, spot, fancy that and of course Jacksons) and played all the 90s classics (While scouting for female holidaymakers lol). I stopped hanging in the acrcades around 1999 and didnt really play fruit machines again (Apart from the odd pub machine) until i started online in 2011. Fast forward to a few months ago, and as the last vestige of my youth that i havent collected/talked about/researched etc (Skateboarding, and hip hop/punk vinyl, mostly. I am a record dealer now, have been for 23 years) I decided to look around to see if any of the old machines are in any of the arcades on our stretch of the east coast. I was a bit dissapointed.... There is 1 arcade between mablethorpe and skegness that has any old machines in and that is Smiths in Winthorpe, just after Butlins and before Skeg. A LOT of bulbs out in that place and the maintenance is a bit sub par. HOWEVER They do have an Andy Capp, Viva Las Vegas 6 and a Hyper Viper. ALL Of which were on my favourites list back in the day. They also have an original 1994 simpsons (That has never once been on in the last 2 months i have been going) An Andy Capp great escape which likewise hasnt been on. And an Eastenders Queen Vic which was just at the end of my days but think i just remember it...........has been on once and the speaker sound like ****. BUT i do get to play some of my old favs. I have also bought a modern (Well 2017 Reflex £100 jackpot) machine for home so i can learn a little bit more about how they work and just be able to learn some general maintenance. With the hope of getting an old favourite one of these days and rebuild it to get it immaculate and 100% working. I think my top machines i would like to have a go at getting are Super hyper viper, Classic adders and ladders, andy capp, viva las vegas 6, grand national or labyrinth. I have a list of about 35 i remember playing, in reality any one would do, depends what i can get my hands on, what state of repair its in and how much its gonna cost me. Again i am SO LATE to the pass on this, i had no idea there was such a community around vintage slots and there were actual retro arcades specialising in 80s/90s machines .I wish i would of got into this years ago. I feel i have missed the boat a bit and finding machines now will be a lot harder to do. There are also 2 machines which i can't find any pictures or mention of and would LOVE to just see a picture if anyone has them (I doubt i would be able to find one to buy but if there is and you have it, message me!). One is called 'High Spirits' and no, NOT the one based around drinking. This was ghouls and ghosts based, was 2p a play and i am pretty sure jackpot was £2.40. Was playing this in Jacksons in 1993 i am pretty sure, could even be a late 80s machine. Cant remember if it had a board or not but there was a pick feature from what was on the visible reels, and you could slow it down with cancel, pick the red 7 and then maybe had to line up the other reels again with a cancel to slow it down. Cant 100% remember.... The other was called 'Sure thing' this was more of a cloud 9, 777 heaven type machine probably 5p a play at the time maybe £4.80 jackpot but you could get extremely good routes on it and it would just give win spin after win spin. If i saw that getting hit hard by holiday makers i would always have a punt afterwards to see if it would route, and a lot of the time it would! lol! Last thing i wanna share (If you havent see it already) Is a vid on youtube someone took of Jacksons arcade in 1994............. If only we could go back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvkpFJ3_D7k It isn't my video but i was probably in bingoland at the exact time it was being filmed. Hope to get to know some of you over the coming months. If you have any memories of arcading in 1990s mablethorpe, (Or know of those 2 machines i mentioned) leave a reply. Would love to hear from you. Cheers

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Unlike most electro mechanical machines that run on 50volts ac, The machine I have here operates all it's hardware on 240v mains and has 9 timers with the same motor. Most of them are showing corrosion with a couple in bad condition with at least one sticking or jamming completely refusing to run free. Thank you for the replies, I have found what could be the correct replacement on the RS site.

Hi Patrick. Yes I invested all my time on building the schematics. I understand schematics but its painful to start off learning to use the software and drafting it out- I worked from a stripped down board and the datasheets for all the pin information. Cross checking it as I went... thats why there wasn't any mistakes on them. The impact board layout is totally redesigned. I dont trust AI for design as it gets the pinouts wrong all the time. You can ask it pinouts for eg a 6809 and it will get it wrong everytime. I also tried to use AI it to create a pcb footprint for the obsolete audio processor package on the Epoch aswell but that was no good aswell so I created my own for that. Its not quite there for stuff like that yet unfortunately. I did use an AI image program to rework an image several times to get the silkscreen cabinet picture... it took ages but that worked in the end. Funnily enough the original image I used was from was a JPM Maverick machine but it kept changing it to 'adders and ladders' so i had to manually get rid of that myself.

amazing work Matty. so you did start creatign the schematics and then redesign the board? where you able to use AI in the proces??

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