payout problems

[edgeCity]

Brought home a nice 10c Mills Black Cherry today. The slot will cycle, but it won't pay out!
Two problems that I can see:
(1) Cycled through all payouts -- in all cases, the holes in the reel disks line up correctly, but
the vertical payout levers will not penetrate them.
(2) See foto. The payout slides move forward and back as they should as the machine
cycles, but the bottom slide sticks out more than the others:

. . . any ideas?
Thanks!
Nelson

[nhsodaman]

Take a picture from the other side with the fingers

[Beads]

I am totally new to this but I will give it a shot, I would check the "anti-check payout assembly" it may be holding back the vertical payout fingers from paying out. If so you can use a twist tie to hold it back. Next maybe your 5th click stop lever is not engaging or is releasing to soon.
The experts will fill you in with the rest...good luck! And yes a picture from the back of the mech would help a lot.
Bill

[edgeCity]

Take a picture from the other side with the fingers

. . . two fotos from the back side:

[oldslotman]

Move this lever so it points to the back. It is holding back the payout fingers and must be moved.

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[Beads]

You beat me to it...I was just mocking up his picture.....hope this works for him. Nice easy fix.
On a side note wow!!!! that machine is in great condition.

[edgeCity]

Move this lever so it points to the back. It is holding back the payout fingers and must be moved.

Is this the lever you're referring to? Moved it back, still no payouts.

To convince myself that there are no coin jams in the payslides themselves, I 'cocked' the mech, manually held back the lowest payslide, and cycled. Two coins dropped (i.e., single cherry)! Then repeated with the lowest two slides, five coins dropped (double cherries). Lowest three slides, ten coins (oranges). Etc. So the payslides aren't jammed, and they are delivering coins.

. . . and thanks, Beads -- it is in great condition! See my post "10c Black Cherry" in Fantastic Finds for details.

[Beads]

Yes that is the correct lever, but it has to go back further. The hook maybe locked onto the roller of of the payout push back lever bar.

[edgeCity]

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Yes that is the correct lever, but it has to go back further. The hook maybe locked onto the roller of of the payout push back lever bar.

. . . indeed it (yellow) is -- locked onto the roller tip (blue) with a death grip, I might add! It won't budge.

I have two other (functioning) Mills machines. On one, this level floats freely, never
really making contact with the roller (red). On the other, this level has been removed
entirely!

[Beads]

I don't know why by the picture it has a death grip. But if you want your machine to pay it has to be released. Maybe pull back the roller to take some pressure off. If all else fails you can remove it for now like one of your other machines. It is just there to detect a check(coin with a hole in the centre) so the machine does not payout.
As I said before I am totally new to this. Or you could wind the mech up and stop the clock while the 5click lever is holding back the master slide this also should take some pressure off that lever. Time for a real mechanic to step in.
Good luck Bill