1972 Nishijin Spring Jet playfield replacement project

[pachiwall]

I have to say; now I finally get what everyone raves about the Nishijin model A “recycler”; it’s clearly superior to most any vintage pachinko! Since it can be played with just 200-300 balls because of reusing “wasted” balls it barely needs any manual filling of the hoppers. I also like you you can see the payout balls being dumped and the way the bell sounds (kinda quiet). I wonder why they stopped making recyclers?

I often wondered why recyclers were discontinued. I just always figured that since they are a gambling machine...the fact that the losing balls were mixed in with the winning balls, this makes it difficult to keep track of profits. With the Model B type machine, the losing balls and winning balls can go to different catch bins to calculate profits easier.