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    Default Re: Daido machine "takara spotless" early 80s

    Quote Originally Posted by BluegrassBruce View Post
    I'm not sure how productive adding to a three-year-old thread will be, but here goes. My late father also had the Daido Spotless, which I've inherited. By trial-and-error and The Google I've learned quite a bit, including that this mechanism HATES not having a healthy supply of balls in it. Mine has no cover in the second ball supply ramp, which I will attack some day--the balls tend to "shingle" and jam up. ("Shingle" is a conveyor term where the constraint isn't enough to keep a single-file/single level flow. I write packaging machine manuals for a living.)

    My present problem is that the center tulip jams up. The first ball through closes the tulip and drops through normally. The next ball bounces inside the tulip, where I assume it's supposed to pass through and open the tulip at the same time. Mostly it doesn't, so subsequent balls jam the tulip. This is a very easy mechanism to take apart, and I can detect nothing binding with the tulip mechanism. I was looking for a missing spring location, as in initial testing a 5/8" or so long spring came out of the payout with a bunch of balls! But there are no apparent attachment points.

    The ashtray works perfectly.
    Wow a machine with a working Ashtray

    Jacks right on about the tulip.. give it a light clean and take a look at the width of the little tabs..

    hears a pic or two of my own ball cover mods


    Pachinko B cover (2).jpgPachinko B cover.jpgmizuho back 2.jpg
    track cover (1).jpgtrack cover.jpgtrack cover (2).jpg


    and of couse

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    Default Re: Daido machine "takara spotless" early 80s

    WELCOME!!!

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    Default Re: Daido machine "takara spotless" early 80s

    i've seen the words "takara spotless" next to a sailboat logo on the lower left corner of taiyo arrange ball cels. sounds to me like that is who made cels for various companies.
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    Default Re: Daido machine "takara spotless" early 80s

    Thanks. I'm not sure what "little tabs" we're talking about. I've included a couple of tulip pics, which may or may not show what you need.
    Pachinko Tulip 1.jpgPachinko Tulip 2.jpg

    It's almost academic, as balls hit that tulip about as often as the Minnesota Gophers go to the Rose Bowl. (That would be 50 years ago...)
    Pachinko 01.jpg

    Here's an overall back pic, incidentally showing my first "design study" plastic cover taped in place. (This short version just moved the shingling problem up to its opening!) I especially like your formed aluminum cover--I've got some brass I'll bend up.

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    Default Re: Daido machine "takara spotless" early 80s

    I had the exact same problem with one of my machines. On mine the "middle whatzit" was giving me the problem. it was rubbing against the sides to much. I used a small screwdriver to VERY VERY slightly bend it in and it moved more freely. Be careful not to bend anything to much.

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    Default Re: Daido machine "takara spotless" early 80s

    Quote Originally Posted by tommy4132 View Post
    I had the exact same problem with one of my machines. On mine the "middle whatzit" was giving me the problem. it was rubbing against the sides to much. I used a small screwdriver to VERY VERY slightly bend it in and it moved more freely. Be careful not to bend anything to much.
    I KNEW that creating some exact technical terms would pay off!

    Here's another photo from the front (I was too lazy to unscrew it--besides, those screws aren't getting any younger!)
    Pachinko Tulip 3.jpg
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    Default Re: Daido machine "takara spotless" early 80s

    please post another pic of the tulip in its open position.. same angle as post 26 please
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    Default Re: Daido machine "takara spotless" early 80s

    Quote Originally Posted by Moparformances View Post
    please post another pic of the tulip in its open position.. same angle as post 26 please
    Okay--I've labeled all of the "bendable" parts so we can refer to the same spot.Pachinko Tulip 4.jpg

    I also took a front view of the whole thing--forgetting that I'd removed that center tulip! Oh, well...

    Pachinko without tulip oops!.jpg

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    Default Re: Daido machine "takara spotless" early 80s

    That is one beautiful machine!!!
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    Default Re: Daido machine "takara spotless" early 80s

    It had a price tag of $35 on it, which my dad MAY have paid. If my mom was along, she'd have gotten it for $10 and made the flea market vendor sing "I'm a Little Teacup" to boot!

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    Default Re: Daido machine "takara spotless" early 80s

    The 10 at the top...does that mean that it only pays out 10 balls per jackpot? if so can you take a pic of the JP assembly, without the cover? I have a model A that only pays 11, 10 at the JP tray (2 rows of 5) and the winning ball to the lower tray.Nice chrome...nothing else 009.jpgThe label is badly faded but you can still read 11 on it.Nice chrome...nothing else 031.jpg The brass seesaw is waaay short. I could put a bigger one in...but I think it is kinda cool!

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    Default Re: Daido machine "takara spotless" early 80s

    the part labeled "F" is what need adjusting
    Never Doubt that a small group of thoughtful, .......... /........ If your not going to stand behind our troops
    ...committed people can change the world. ............. /.................Please, Please stand in front of them
    .....Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has............./
    .........................................Margaret Mead

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