Help on Strange reels strips Mills Extraordinary

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Re: Help on Strange reels strips Mills Extraordinary

Postby SLOT DYNASTY » Mon Jul 20, 2015 12:15 pm

Looks Great. Leave it alone. Love the symbols. :D
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Re: Help on Strange reels strips Mills Extraordinary

Postby oldslotman » Mon Jul 20, 2015 2:46 pm

Very nice looking machine.
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Re: Help on Strange reels strips Mills Extraordinary

Postby altort » Mon Jul 20, 2015 4:30 pm

Good choice I like it!
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Re: Help on Strange reels strips Mills Extraordinary

Postby JPCass » Sun Jul 26, 2015 8:00 pm

I guess it's too late for this project, but I'll chip in, if you have a slight mismatch between the discs and reel strips, you can always patch over a section of the strips with what you need (or to cover what you don't need) cut from another set of strips. I have a Extraordinary with late 1934 date reel strips that must have come from the factory with SP1 discs/reels that have had a couple of holes blocked with blanks perfectly welded in, and the corresponding payouts symbols have been covered with lemons. When patching they originally used a section of reel strip 3 symbols long to get a good fit and to help hide the seams so that you don't see two seams at a time in the payout window, but you could probably get away with gluing a single symbol on.

It appears to me that some people may be reproducing reel strips on inkjet printers, and if that is the case - or if you wanted to go to the trouble of getting set up to do it yourself - standard strips could be digitally modified to suit any configuration necessary.
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Re: Help on Strange reels strips Mills Extraordinary

Postby gsx11r » Mon Jul 27, 2015 1:37 pm

Hello
JPCass , Sure ,this is a good solution , but only when you have one or two slight mismatch between the discs and reel strips .But the FR1/2/3 set is very special ! It’s not 1 or 2 ,but 5 problems per Disks !!
And as you can see above , it’s not a problem for me to make my reel strips ! I have all tools for this ! But if someone need to make a special reel strip set, I know that Mrslot1.com is able to make it for you ! Or look with”SlotMachineReelStrips.com”, and I’m sure that some good guys on this forum can help also!

For info , I have the statistic for this set!
-Total percentage payout : 61.60% (with 60 coins on jackpot) !! #-o
:twisted: Are you ready to loose your money ??? !! :twisted:

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Re: Help on Strange reels strips Mills Extraordinary

Postby Anglobritish » Sun Oct 09, 2016 11:06 am

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Hi Guy's,
When you talk about bug's, in the old days we called them roll overs, My late father travelled the carnivals with his slot machines, he would take two small washers and a small nut and bolt and fix them to one of the star reels that would display a Bell-Fruit Gum symbal causing the machine to roll over to a lemon or other fruit symbal, ense the name roll over, and as my father would only be at one location for a few days, he did not want any machine to drop a jackpot,later in years Mills even produced roll overs for their 20 stop models.

Regarding the filling of the end plates, this was a much harder job, and mostly done by casino's who wanted to display their own custom symbals of various kinds, you may or may not know but filling these holes in these plates was not that easy, they were case hardened steel and had to be punched out, I remember one time my father destroyed seveal drill bit's trying to drill holes in some plates of a Jennings Little Duke, also once the Casino tech had fill ed an hole and had other holes ounched in the end plates, they would then place a transfer of the desired symbal over the original one on the reel strip, there was a company up in Washington State that specialised in reel strips and decals, I have their catalog an a lot of their sample deca;ls that they produced for the operators and various casino's.

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