by montanaslots » Wed Jul 25, 2018 10:56 pm
I have given some thought to your problem, I have seen reel bundles from the factory where the factory simply plugged the holes in the first disc in order to decrease the payout. Your reel strip on your bundle does not look replaced and has no signs on the edges of the strip being replaced and leaving signs on the reel tin edge. The color match is the same and so I believe this to be the way the bundle left the factory. Since you know that the two lemon symbols are punched in the disc like an orange and a plum, rather than try to replace a wonderful original reel strip, why not just plug the holes in the first reel disc. I would think that someone has plugs they have removed from bundles in their extra parts and that they would sell two of the plugs to you. The hole can be plugged either by a slotted circle metal piece with tabs or more often an arrangement of two washer like metal round discs with a very tiny screw threaded in the center. A more complicated way was welding a piece of metal onto the reel disc which I would not do. The two discs with a tiny screw are really not hard to put in if you have something flat and thin to hold inside disc in place while you screw in the outside disc. I would say that at some point the original plugs were removed and that is why a lemon is paying. You could order a lower percentage of payouts from the factory and it was easy for them to take a standard disc, put in two plugs and print two extra lemons on the strip. You operator would increase his payout substantially by not having the extra orange and plum payouts by decreasing the number or oranges or plums on the first reel. Dave aka mtslots