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Also must be a right buzz owning your first ever fruit machine

little story for those interested .. as a nipper in cornwall i remember sitting in front of for what seemed like hours on numerous occasions a bank of small fruit machines in a arcade in cornwall called the "pot of gold" amongst other establishments of the time, the mid to late 80s as a rough guess . the machine was called cash and carry by now i believe barcrest (back then i didnt know or care) anyway when i joined the mecca i dreamt of owning such a machine, various posts were stuck up, nothing happened apart from tumble weed blowing in .. anyway 4 or 5 years ago maybe more .... i was in cornwall on holiday at our static caravan when we owned one , and i was told to call somebody as they had seen my post . so sitting on the caravan step trying to get a signal i rang this number and spoke to the fella on the other end anyway he said he had a cash n carry and that i could have it, however he liked "deals" not money, so what had i got ... well i dont have fruit machines so couldnt offer him any , so he said well .......ive got a list of some machines i want if you get me one of them we can do a straight swop . i had a paper and pen with me at this point and he spilled out aload of classic titles like fruit snappa, silver ghost , reel crazy, amoungst others and right at the end he said bellfruit pussycat .... and i thought to myself well i reckon i might be able to get one of those , so after about 4 hours on the phone chatting what must have been shit to eachother about our lives and what he had etc , we left it that if i could find one on his list then the deal could / would be done . off i went , within 2 weeks i had seen brought and secured a pussy cat bellfruit clubber for 50 or 80 quid locally , i let the cash and carry man know straight away . however he was having some tuff life lessons and happenings so couldnt do anything until he was sorted and clear of it all, we all know life and family etc are more important than a fruit machine ever so i left it . he made me aware he was a man of his word so i didnt need to worry as it wasnt going anywhere else, no matter how long it too , but he should be sorted soon . anyway months passed , years passed with the odd message back and forth in between ourselves . well ............ as of a unplanned last minute road trip of 7 hours (round trip) and a swop of bellfruit pussy cat clubber i have the machine you see in attached pictures . i cannot say how happy i am to see one in the flesh etc and actually own it now after such a long time its going to be a marmite machine for many, as many will class it as boring but for me it holds a very special bond with me . so if the fella is reading this who now has a pussycat bellfruit clubber whom i met last night after so many years and things happening thank you so so very very much for allowing me to do the swop with you and for you keeping your word about the machine happy happy days .. if i could cartwheel i would .. i cant so i wont haha p.s there wont be a long resto thread about this machine, i want to get it working , the roms dumped and play and enjoy it

naa some cheap kit of different sizes off ebay, trouble is the special proper tool needed to round them nicely is not cheap and of course you need to buy the tool in different sizes for the rivets! not a great fan of the rivets, they make the center holes so small!

Cheers Mike, nice to know it is interesting to some, at times it felt like I was writing to myself! I just really need some V6 (or better still a V8 boot roms) as a V6 is very fast booting compared to a V4

Always interesting Andrew, just wish I was more capable at it! It’s a great skill to have!

So put the sound roms in and put it in my wild side, alarm sounded for a ram clear! yup at least the sound is working! then it booted up fine and worked great, all sounds are there too, so no idea why the sound crystal capacitors were messed with, perhaps previously a sound rom was put in the wrong way and blown it so there then would be no sound whichever way round the rom was! anyway nice to see this board now working for a cost of £4.44 and a labour of love over days! (perhaps i should put a 'R' in front of epoch and see if someone would buy it for £165 )

yeah psu bridge rectifier gone inside the psu, very common!

Ha ha brilliant.

Brilliant fella. I didnt forget you helped me out with some images before mate. I might get this done tonight for you is the background that colour or is it a true black. I’ll try to redo the whole panel, that way it will look like one piece. What are the natural colours? Black background red lettering and gold bordering? Like I said might get a chance this evening, if I do I will upload to this thread Richie, cheers dude J

I will take a look for you, won’t be able to take a look till later in the month thouch. If I’m understanding correctly you want the taped up bit restoring so the 2p play pattern will need redoing. If you can get an image directly straight on, that would be a help J

Hope you can get someone to draw you the artwork rich as its a shame that part of it is missing and would certainly add to the machine if it was complete again . Ive recently had to get get a double coin acceptance plate sticker made from scratch for the instant replay project im doing .the printers reckoned they could source the hardened type of vinyl but it would habe to br bought in bulk which wasnt worth the cost so i had it printed onto ordinary thick vinyl in a matt finish .it was printed in layers too .the result was good and i got the printers to redraw the artwork . Best of luck rich

Also someone had been round the YM chip you can see in the picture above on 3 sides out of the 4! so this was refluxed up and gone over with a hot stick! below is the underside of the board and how it looks now will hopefully get to test it soon!!! but that's all for tonight! least a bit more progress

few files ronocle supplied a while back

Nice find Rich, Advert from 1983....

Great to see the new roms work like intended. Was a pain having to avoid certain features with the other roms we had, so huge thanks for getting the roms re-dumped so vectra could get the layout finished properly. I redid some of the affect, and meter settings from the original layout as they weren't configured correctly. The multiplier should have been set to '2' instead of '1', etc, so I had to reset the ram and start afresh. Fixed layout attached. Nudge Money £2 Dx Mfme6.1+ fixed.zip