looks like the one Jerry had up for sale. was a lot of people interested in it at the time.
very nice looking machine !!!
jeff H.
JHSS-1944 wrote:looks like the one Jerry had up for sale. was a lot of people interested in it at the time.
very nice looking machine !!!
jeff H.
JHSS-1944 wrote:Did you see the other 1 he just put up ??? by the looks of the photos , he has many of these !!!!! (look in the back round areas of the photos. Guess not that rare ......
jeff H.
marsonion wrote:JHSS-1944 wrote:Did you see the other 1 he just put up ??? by the looks of the photos , he has many of these !!!!! (look in the back round areas of the photos. Guess not that rare ......
jeff H.
Jerry told me at the outset that he had gotten hold of two machines, and was using the nicer, more complete one as a guide to getting the uglier one with a few missing parts (mine) up and running. As indicated by the date stamps, those are weeks-old pictures, and what you're seeing is the nice one in the foreground and mine being worked on in the background. I never claimed these machines are "rare" (which is a word that can provoke a nuclear strike and get you incinerated on this forum) and couldn't care less anyway, since I'm not a real collector... but good luck bargaining down the prices on Mills Dice machines by informing the sellers that they're "not that rare."
The pretty Dice that's on eBay right now is so complete it even features the mysterious anti-tilt lockout gizmo in all its glory. I say "mysterious" because, as Dave pointed out, it could only serve to interrupt the cycle, not block a cheater's payout... so what's the point of this thing? And why would anyone risk a hernia trying to tilt a Dice anyhow? Where would that offer a punter any advantage at all anyway? Sounds like a real mug's game. Now I'm speculating that the tilt lockout was added to prevent the game from being played on an un-level surface, such as that typical bar room table with one leg too short; I'm thinking that some of the on-site malfunctions that gave the Dice a bad name back in the day may have resulted from machines that were just not sitting plumb. After all, when you have all of those coins which absolutely must gravity-feed perfectly into position after dropping past little gates and rolling down little ramps, etc., keeping the game "on the level" may be absolutely critical to its proper function.
I think that's an another awfully negative comment from you. Shame on you. I thought this forum was to promote collecting and all of the positive things in our hobby.
Dave wrote:
My earlier post offended someone on the board and they sent me the following PMI think that's an another awfully negative comment from you. Shame on you. I thought this forum was to promote collecting and all of the positive things in our hobby.
So, if you were also offended then I apologize. I went back and read the post and am still trying to figure out what was so horribly wrong in what I said. He said this was "another awfully negative comment from me" which also has me a bit perplexed.
Earlier in the thread I stated the Mills Dice was my favorite of the mechanical slots because it worked like no other machine out there.
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