Hello All,
I am restoring a 1936 Mills 25-cent Extraordinary Console machine. I have disassembled it, cleaned all the parts, replaced various springs and cotter pins, and reassembled the mechanism using Dave’s DVD as a guide (Thanks, Dave, the video was very helpful!!).
Although I have no parts left over (!!), I do have a couple of persistent, nagging issues, and I hope someone on the forum can help me out.
The first issue....
The coins slides get stuck. When I cycle the machine, the coin slides get pushed out and the horizontal fingers engaged with the slides. The issue is that the bottom 3-coin slide (which appears to act as a carriage for the other slides) engages so strongly with the horizontal finger that it will not release at the end of the cycle. I have to reach into the mechanism and push the bottom horizontal finger to the side (using quite a bit of force—certainly much more that is generated by the vertical fingers) in order for the slides to snap back to the starting position. If I disassemble the mechanism to the point where I can see the slide and the horizontal fingers, the issue still happens and the engagement of the slides and the horizontal fingers is evident. This was not happening before I disassembled the mechanism, so it must be something I have done in the restoration. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what is happening and how to remedy this?
I will list the other issue as a second post.
Regards,
Marc