Jennings Governor Tic Tac Toe Not Paying Out

[ChiefC]

Hello again everyone,

I worked on a Jennings Governor restoration with everyone's assistance here (thanks again).

I am in need of your expertise again please. The Jennings was working fine and the change was abrupt, it simply stopped paying out. Before I begin to tear into it again I wanted to ask for your expertise at where I should look at to possibly find common payout problem fixes. Thanks in advance and here are some observations I made while troubleshooting it.

1. I noticed the machine began to operate without a coin inserted, I think I heard it called freeplay here.
2. I ensured it always had a coin in it and continued to use it but I noticed was not paying out very much (reels spun but not landing on payouts as often).
2. When it did land on a payout it simply is not paying out.
3. The escalator and clock seem to be operating fine, played coins are dropping into the cashbox, but I am not hearing the payout slides cycle at all.
4. I did disassemble escalator, clock and payout slides when I first got the machine operational.

Any recommendation's as to which assembly or component I should check first?

Thanks

[mazzeosa17]

(1) I would check the coin sensing pin in the escalator to ensure it's touching the coin properly and advancing the escalator - that should start to address the free play issue.
(2) You can check the upper payout fingers to ensure they are going through the payout discs properly (might need stronger springs) to trip the lower payout fingers and then to ensure the payout slides are moving backwards to payout the coins.
(3) Check for a jammed coin stuck in the payout slides - you can look from the bottom of the machine, and also manually trip the slides to enter the coin tube.
(4) I'm assuming that the coin tube loading arm (on the lower left bottom side of the mechanism, looking from the back of the mechanism, and it moves back and forth) has not been activated, which would get the escalator to advance, fill the payout tube, but not allow a payout to occur.
If these don't solve it, we can try and determine another cause.