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On the subject of glasses, here is an article from 1980 on Applied Screen Print LTD.

Would love to do it again. It was a very interesting job and there was a lot of work and people involved during the process,but the job demands a minimum of 2 people not including an experienced glass cutter, silverer and stencil photographer and drawer/writer. That's how it used to be done. It has probably advanced significantly since then with digital photography etc. Would be interesting. But I suspect be a very expensive process now. On leaving my apprenticeship,I worked for another silk screen printer and they did mostly reel bands,and used a different technique again in a reverse order of the norm using white rather than clear bands. Where the print was on top of the band rather than underneath! So black was the last colour rather than white! It was very confusing and easier to make mistakes with registration. I didn't work there long though. The company I did my apprenticeship with was called Visual Arts Studio Sanitorium Road Cardiff. Wonder if it's still going? Ha,loved working there as our factory ran alongside the Radyr freight only railway line and used to see and hear the class 37s going past on the coal trains whilst I was printing hundreds of Eachway Nudger glasses lol😆😆😆

Each colour including the silver mirror was printed through stencils that were applied onto the silk screens and every different colour was done one colour at a time and allowed to dry first before the next colour was added. We used automatic and manual silk screen printing machines. The automatics,you fed the glass in one side and the glass would come out printed on the other. All we had to do was to check for registration I.e,everything fitted into the right places on the glass and machine. The manual printers,we would lift a silk screen,place the glass underneath,and used a squeegee to print across the glass over the silk screen. Did this job as an apprentice 1980-83 in Cardiff. Did tons of JPM stuff.

Very interesting read chris One could only hope you were doing this today... That would be cracking business to have If one could get around the copyright

Which years were you there Chris and I will have a look if there is anything on the company?

Yes,as Andrew says Glasses were done in bulk orders. I printed thousands of fruit machine glasses and the reel bands too. It was all done on silk screen printers. First you'd have a clear glass mirrored and the silver parts on the glass were printed ,and the rest washed off. Then it was black print Then course in turn Finally while backing. Any backlit symbols or hidden words were printed in Grey or black at the end.

cheers Mike! one worry is , as I had to design the templates myself in diptrace - would the led modules actually fit together good with no gaps! well....... success!! so far so good!!

All looks good!!

This one came in as not booting. These are normally in quite good nick mainly due to the fact they don't have batteries. This model also had the later type of regulator using the TO3 device, like MPU3. The only other odd thing was that the ROM cart was an MPU1 version but running 'Rock on' which is an MPU2 game. First thing was to swap out the old cap. On a power up it would light one of the lamps but nothing else. Looking at the CPU it would start but after a few seconds all activity from the data and address busses would stop? Sometimes they would start pulsing again after 10 secs or so. All very odd. These boards use the 6800 CPU and I didn't have one to substitute and as it appeared to be sort of working I was reluctant to splash out on one until I'd tried everything else. So, after replacing all the 6821's and 6810 RAM I was getting nowhere. All the original chips were put back in and the board was put aside waiting for the CPU to arrive. After a few days it landed on the doorstep and it didn't look like a fake when inspected which was a relief. Putting it in and powering up resulted in still no boot but there was a noise from the speaker and some different lamps flashed. So it was out with all the 6821's again which made no difference. Then the 6810 and bingo she lives! All the original 6821's were OK too so they went back in.

1980-83 mate.

BALLY bandits are a strange thing, neither fish nor fowl. Some see them as the last 'true' bandits, others as the first of the electro-mechanicals. Most people simply don't identify with them, which is a shame. There is such a range, both original and revamp, that they could form a collection in their own right. It would be good to bring all the BALLY enthusiasts together on one Forum.

Interesting to read Chris, I would imagine it was quite an interesting job, and would have kept you busy. Thanks for the insight.

so your the one Chris! very interesting!

Looks smart. Not a UK game I guess. Not sure if the ROM has been dumped already. If not you'll need to back up your ROM and hope it reads ok One or two of the address lines run right by the battery. Problem is the 50v line runs near it to. Leakage from battery is conductive so you can end up with 50 volts where it doesn't belong, killing stuff. No ROM and no available backup to blow new ROMs means the machine won't run even if you get a good board. It has the large display by the way. So fewer options open if you want to have the display running too. Oh yeah sound card / ROMs. Guess the game uses sampled sound? You'll need them backed up too for a complete game too if not also backed up.