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As you will hear on the video this is dedicated to everyone on the mecca as a big thank you for all your help shes back up and running again

this guy I just found on searching linkedin could be a good start.. https://uk.linkedin.com/in/stuart-harper-7872568a

So,to start this i have my bingolette from 1957.I bought this in 1999 and loved these the moment i saw them.It had written on the back this is no good.Wires hanging out the motor,cobwebs inside,rusty springs etc.So i veneered the cabinet,had the motor rewound in long eaton.Polished up all the springs that guide the ball,renewed rubbers on pins.The metal work was two tone so i did the corners in brass finish and the rest in gold leaf,then laquered it.The black flick handle was done in black enamel.This was 20 years ago,its had a lot of use and i would never part with it.Every nut and bolt off this to make it perfect.I even had printed the lower symbols you see on the bingo grid.Still works and sounds great,the original locks i had put on new keys.I will be adding more of my past work as weeks go on.I think you will agree this is a lovely machine,oh yes i had a new stainless steel coin box made to match original

Where did you get these Ben!? Top work mate. Looks like the Actel chip is refered to as the coordinator. Im up to page 12-15 and there's some fantastic information there.

My poor wrist!

Hi. Every time I log in, I have to put I my details then it says password incorrect. I've clicked remember me. I then have to request a password reset and start again. Any help?

Yes i did mate,but i wont be having anymore epochs

Thanks ben,ive had a good few german machines and they are built like tanks.Nearly all are wall mounted and the size of a small suitcase.

Thanks all for the messages if it wasn't for you and this site it would be in a corner not working. I did the replacement glass after work and have to say bloody el it looks new!!! I thought the reels looked yellow, but with the new glass in they dont. I started to do a video but (twatly here left the phone charger, so been at work on 10%, doing the video dropped to 3% then off!) So have a few pics and a short video until tomorrow Thanks again all I'm so chuffed 20191008_175705.mp4

Also if you are filling try not to use normal filler use a fibreglass filler like fibral you will find this better and harder Its not cheap but the right thing to use

The holes will be from the fiberglass you will get that air pockets and resin which is the norm from sanding back the gel-coat right back the the fiber-glass

It’s getting strange now got to say, I know it’s a unreliable tech but this is to a new level

Are you sure you dont have any damaged wires or burnt out crimps as very rare 4 boards and 4 psus stop working all at once

I had the same issues with a sru button frame .looks heat related almost .in the end I took it to a car body repair shop and we match the colour up more or less exactly. The bloke sanded it all back primed and resprayed then lacquered it .looked absolutely mint after but cost me £100 which I think was reasonable but costly onthe scheme of things. The other issue is that the black colour isnt just plain black .it has a metallic finish if you look closely and we found a honda colour that matched up .its amazing how many black colour variants are out there !

Yeah nice work I had a look a while back. It says he directed onestop until 2001. Seems like he has a lighting company. It would be great to make contact with him

Great find!

Yes Rich, that is the plan now, the back door is with the printers and they are going to try and print on vinyl a match. Nick is also going to take some pictures of his so the printers have as much as possible to work with

Interesting Google find about the epoch fruit machine a 66 report in to the technicals of it and how it works copy of it update just found some more maygay related stuff of the same website circuit diagram drawing it seems if someone can work this all out it would be appreciated The top one looks very promising only skim read it but goes into a lot of detail about the epoch mpu GB2366896A-1.pdf GB2161008A.pdf GB2142457A.pdf GB2161009A.pdf EP0432996B1.pdf EP0432996B1.pdf EP0697132B1.pdf EP0615775A2.pdf EP0691634A1.pdf GB2072914A.pdf GB2356279A.pdf

Pack it in before you go blind!

happy days

Yes great story rob I used to love playing this great machine and it’s the first time I have seen one in 38yrs am sure when you got the rock on feature and there was nothing to take you could mess it up and it would carry on giving you the feature till there was something good to take like jackpot 👍👍👍👍👍👍

Lovely to see it up and running rob .so glad for you I really am .great story too of how you got it .a vid of.the new glass would be terrific as well .a true mpu2 gem .

cheers for the vid mate great sounds

Very nice to see gameplay on it and the commentary over it. Don’t have a clue about MPU2 myself but still can appreciate them. Ive eagle eyes.. is the glass dated 1979?

You sound like John Motson! Love it 😂. thanks for the video

Nice machine,kind of simple but great game play,love the nudge,well done saving that

Actually these aren’t to bad some of the top half like this and maybe a dx can be made? I’m sure tommy c or pool etc have made superb layouts with far worse resources

good job there was not a printing error on that last word where the F was missing!