Stumbled into my first Pachislo

[jbanks25]

Hi everyone, I am completely new to this scene. A work friend of mine had a family member pass away, and they were selling his things to settle the estate. My buddy told me that there was a slot machine available to buy along with 400+ tokens. He said I could have it for $50 if I wanted it. So I went over and picked up my new to me Yamasa Uruma machine.

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It seems to work pretty well, and is in decent shape. My biggest problem so far is that roughly a quarter of the tokens you put into it either fall out on the inside, or fall into the return. I have cleaned the tokens once, and swabbed the ramp, and that improved it, but I may need to do it all again. I'm open to suggestions though. Here is what the coin slot on this machine looks like.

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As near as I can tell, $50 was a decent price for one of these guys, so hopefully it will be worth it.

[luckydog]

try cleaning the track and sensor more, it may work better with more use

[Moparformances]

are the tokens different??? if there iron ten they might be rejected.. or a slight size differance??

[jbanks25]

They appear to be of two different manufacturers, but they both pass through fine roughly 3/4 of the time. Maybe more now that I re-cleaned it. I don't mind when they fall into the refund sloth, but falling into the internal portion of the machine is a real pain... I'll probably clean it again, and all the tokens again, then I may fabricate something to keep the tokens from falling into the machine body.

[luckydog]

something as easy as a piece of cradboard shaped and taped in place may solve that for now

[jbanks25]

Good suggestion, I was thinking a lot more in depth than I needed to be (Clear acrylic etc)

[Wayne-Ooo]

From looking at your picture of the coin mechanism, your coin mechanism is missing a plastic piece that holds the coin on the track.

[Wayne-Ooo]

Here's a picture I found. Maybe this will help.

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[jbanks25]

Hmm... Nuts. Guess cardboard will be in order for sure. Is there any place to source the plastic piece or the whole coin receiver?

[luckydog]

a piece of firm clear plastic from packaging would do the trick also.

parts are hard to come by, unless someone has a parts machine.

[Card Shark]

Welcome to Pachitalk!

I had a similar problem with one of my pachislos and was able to use hard plastic to temporarily fix the problem until a replacement was able to be found.

[jbanks25]

Thanks everyone. I cut some rigid cardboard for a temp fix. I'm up to 90% take rate I would say. Some are still dumping into the return slot I suspect from the extra friction of the cardboard. I'll replace that with some plastic soon. I really appreciate the guidance. It's a fun little machine for sure... Now for some volume controls.