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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.
Freddy Bailey