by oldpinguy » Sun Jun 14, 2020 8:04 pm
Here are a few pictures of the machine. It was made by Mills around 1940, and that is the copyright on the glass. Billboard listed used ones for sale in the 40s. Apparently a couple versions were made. Mine is in the “Jumbo Parade” format and at least one other is in a Horserace format. The horserace May have been the original since the reels are referred to as “first,second,and third” and the jackpot called “special purse”. Basically a Mills silent mechanism in a console format. However, to get around laws on games of “Chance”, they apparently went overboard and added the small pinball to make it a game of “Skill”. The mechanism is purely mechanical with conventional payout slides, not an electrical “coin slicer”. The payout fingers also close 6 volt leaf switches to indicate the winning combinations. The instructions say when you make a winning combination, you then have to make the , almost impossible to miss, “skill” shot. There is a 34 volt circuit connected to the pinball skill rollover that activates a solenoid on the mechanism frame, that ostensibly should have some some way of linking to, and preventing the payout, until you make the “skill” shot. The solenoid on my machine has a small arm that is not connected to anything and moves directly towards the mech frame. It is really hard to imagine what it could have been connected to or how it was supposed to keep the slides from activating across to the other side of the mech. So it currently pays all combos and jackpot with no need whatsoever for the “Skill Shot”. Very curious as how it’s supposed to work.
Thanks for your interest.
Stan
I remember it being seeing it described in some publication but can’t remember where.
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- Solenoid that does nothing
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- Compulsory a Skill Glass
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- Skill Unit
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- Compulsory Skill Console