rtmccurdy wrote:Hi. Working on an early Firebird QT (no bent coin release, round denomination button, etc) and I think the area in the first photo illustrates that it has not completed its cycle. The reel stop levers were all frozen (now cleaned and working) so it could never really cycle completely. I can't figure out how to release the mech. tension to attain the position of the levers and star wheel in picture #2. Would like to keep all my fingers intact! All right side levers on mech. have been cleaned and move as they should. Any help would be appreciated!
rtmccurdy wrote:Hi. Working on an early Firebird QT (no bent coin release, round denomination button, etc) and I think the area in the first photo illustrates that it has not completed its cycle. The reel stop levers were all frozen (now cleaned and working) so it could never really cycle completely. I can't figure out how to release the mech. tension to attain the position of the levers and star wheel in picture #2. Would like to keep all my fingers intact! All right side levers on mech. have been cleaned and move as they should. Any help would be appreciated!
marsonion wrote:I put together a Firebird (or is it called a Thunderbird-? Who knows?) from a box of loose parts sent to me by my buddy Bruce M. in Indiana. He's dragging his feet on coming over to fetch it, so for now, it's mine. Anyway, yesterday the thing spontaneously stopped cycling all the way, hanging up just short of releasing the coin slides. It took me some time flicking moving parts around to finally discover what was wrong: a stack of three nickels jammed-up tightly in the tiny space indicated in the pictures. One of the few weaknesses in the design of the QT's is this Columbia-like "Swinging Ramp" contraption to feed the twin jackpots; it's a shallow incline so lazy coins can easily back-up and overflow, dropping into tight places like this and seizing solid against moving parts. These three nickels were pinched in there so tight I had to half-cycle the machine to pluck them out. The cycle returned 100% immediately after clearing those nickels seized by the Swinging Ramp.
I'm not saying that this is necessarily your specific problem, but you might want to get out a flashlight and check very carefully for jammed coins such as this... they can get caught in the most obscure and unlikely places, and can be very difficult to recognize even when they're right in front of my nose.
JPCass wrote:Nice job putting a QT together from just parts!
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