I was on this forum many years ago not sure what happened to my account, it either got erased due to lack of use or I just forgot the login info....
I have a Mills Dice, I've had it for roughly 30 years. I've refinished the wood case but left the castings with the original brown paint. The only repainting I did was the red "dots" in the coin head behind the coins, and the red marking on the release level/button on the back of the machine. My machine has the square plug with red dice, I also have the anti-cheat tilt mechanism on the front of the machine which stops the clock if the machine is tilted.
I have completely disassembled, cleaned with a strong degreaser, reassembled and lubricated the machine and I will agree that the adjustments on the wires is crazy sensitive and even after getting them all adjusted properly it doesn't take much to knock them back out of adjustment and they can be frustrating to get them readjusted, if somebody has some tips or tricks they have, I'd appreciate it as I've walked away from the machine before as I got too frustrated with it and the adjustments.
Also my original dome glass was broken at some point in the past so now I have a flat piece of glass for the viewing window. Somebody had told me a while back that they had identified a piece of glass for an outdoor light that looked like it was made for the machine, unfortunately he couldn't find his records to tell me who made it and the part number so if somebody has a recommendation, I'm all ears...
If anybody is interested I have almost 40 pictures of the machine that I took during disassembly, they aren't fancy but I used them to successfully reassemble the machine.
Thanks, Jeff