first look, single shot Ginza, machine #8 for me

[mudfud]

OK, i'm at eight now with two households full of pachinkos, so I'm gonna have to stop.

this is the latest, and oldest machine that I've found

1964 Ginza, single shot.

it was well packed, with the wood screwed on top to protect it. seller included a card that said pachinko repair/sales, though this one is missing a part so it's not restored like vintage pachinko does (it also wasn't $500)

came with balls and a small tray.

works except that the cover piece that someone else had missing, is gone here, too. the spare winners storage looks a bit different than the one discussed here. anyone have a picture of this one, closeup?

most of the time the jackpots work, but there is an open vertical chute that must be missing a cover of some kind.

[mudfud]

hi again.

turns out the vertical cover that I'm missing isn't missing.

the metal lever with lots of bends in it (the last pic) rotates to vertical and keeps the balls in.

I'm not sure, however, why or how it gets rotated counterclockwise.

if it's in that position, the extra winner ball mechanism is blocked, so you can't cash those out.

and, if I run out of balls in the top tray, the winner ball gets stuck in the vertical chute and won't reset automatically.

maybe these older ones required a lot more attendant input from the back?

last thing - I noticed that 2 sheets of plexiglass are in the window frame. the inner one with window stripping so it doesn't rattle.

I took the outer one off, since it seems too dark on the face with two layers, and it's really hard to pop the window open without the outer window channel to grab.

do you find the plexi gets scratched up over time? this is the first one of mine that wasn't glass.

now, just the center light to fix and maybe an upper tray "empty" light to add. (and pins to polish for eddie, of course)