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Thanks for posting this thread .nice to see all those impact JPM machines .not my era (far too modern😉)but interesting to see .

New machine is here ! I’d like to give a massive thank you to @stevelancett who collected and stored this machine for me for a few weeks so could get it shipped over to Northern Ireland. Top guy 👍 ill be posting more updates on it below.

Hi all, Some of you already know but for the ones that don't, I worked for Bell Fruit many years ago for around 15 years. I started in 1994 at the age of 16. I had the best years working there and met some great people. Interesting times as we made lots of things. I started off coin testing then ended up on final inspection. I was the youngest Inspector ever and still hold that record today. To be fixing fruit machines at such a young age in that environment was so exciting. I learned a lot and was hungry. I did all jobs in the factory as we got moved around. this was back in the day where we made everything including the cabinets. Such great times. Anyway, enough talking. I have dug some old pictures out. Maybe not to everyone's liking (there are those that aren't interesting in ANYTHING PRE 1950 (like Sulchnez) :)). Ok so lets get on with it. I'll do em in batches. I didn't take pics in the very early days, only when phones started having camera's..... Outside where we used to scrap machines.

hello all from center of France, searching for informations about virtual fruit machines to complete my own personnal pub

A friend of mine has a colour laser printer so he has printed it out for me, not perfect but works, i'll post a pic tomorrow.

Here is a YouTube link to an emulated version I have seen one in the flesh, many years ago in Skegness

I am sure there was Discussed in this link here

Here's a better pic of Rc club. What a great idea this thread is... there's so many machines I don't know there! The earliest ones were a bit before my time. They must be really rare now.

50 credits worth of gameplay, taken just before stripping all those ICs off the board!

ffs just chuck coins in it!

shorting battery's out! geez...... definitely not a good idea! I wonder if that comes from the same myth as putting your car radio in the freezer to erase the security code? lol

So after a bit of a clean up the copper shined through!!! all looks good! nothing wrong with that! everything gives continunitity on all the tracks running through the battery area! so good enough to leave as it is? well actually when you look a bit closer at the tracks in the battery area I found this...... Can you spot the third track up from the bottom only making connection around the rotted bit by a hair! so if left guesses are on how ling this board would have lasted before failing! now under the ram! looks clean also! but again a closer look reveals this via... looks fine! until you look closer! yep that's track rotted away UNDER the ram right where the track meets the via! this is the importance of removing everything in the affected area! you cannot be to careful with M1, examine everything! so from a board that's not looking too bad there is definitely some work to do, also will repair more tracks than just those too as there are a few with the edges of the tracks pitted!

Looks good dude

thanks for sharing all these images john happy days

Big DOND machine. These were the very first and went to the show.

This was a test machine I made. We needed to test a top box and the comms between the base machines. We asked development and they said they didn't have time so I made one

Belgium Crazy Slots, sold a shit load of these too. You wouldn't believe it. Sometimes 800 a week.

Juke box, these failed. I got one in the garage though

Eclipse pusher (scorp 4)

Vegas poker with no coin slot. No idea where this was from, I just can't remember. Was foreign.

Old offsite storage.

We made a game called "Sirenas" for the Spanish market. It smashed all records selling over 10k. We made a special machine to celebrate.

I drove a big bomag compactor on a tip in the early 90's. The amount of machines that were crushed, we weren't allowed to take anything

Haha, have (had) a few of these and other cash boxes. Drilled holes in the bottom of them, about 14 or 15 for the Mrs to grow miniature sunflowers in through the summer.