A lot to cover with this one picture as it is the finished product of the inside of the Cabinet by the Coin door.
First off the Flipper switches were all hand built by me as I had originally bought the pre-made ones from Marcos but they did not work right with this machine so I took them apart and rebuilt both of them, so be prepared to do some work including relocating the mounting holes for the switches. So much for thinking oh yea, just pop them in and I'm done!
The leg plates that the leg bolts go into are all new as the old ones had a couple stripped ones, so since I had to replace 2 why not do them all and be done with as I did not want to run the risk of stripping the new bolts and they are cheap to buy from PBR. When I replace these I use 2 wood screws as the factory used nails and you don't want to be hammering on these 40+ year old leg corners and they are easy to replace down the road.
Also the two Aluminum plates that cover the front leg plates to keep kids from trying to get a free game are originally stapled and need to come off when replacing the leg bolt plates. I take out the old staples and reattach using 2 small wood screws, again, easy to remove and replace next time.
You can see 2 green ground wires coming off the Coin door and one of them is new going to the on/off toggle switch which did not have one and the other had to be repaired as it was broken and both had to be soldered. I always make sure all of my machines have a 3 prong 14' PBR electrical plug/cord (new) and grounded to the minimum 3 items - Transformer, Coin Door, and on/off Switch.
It has 2 Coin Box brackets to hold the box in which one is the original on the side but the other in the middle is used with Gottieb machines and works in this application well because I did not have room on the other side to mount another original bracket because of the way the wood pieces lined up for the on/off toggle switch. I like this application as it holds the Coin Box in perfect alignment with the coin shoots insuring that shaking of the machine will not cause the box to move and coins to miss the coin slot of the box.
The Chime box had a complete Williams rebuild kit from PBR as it was in terrible shape. One chime bar had to be replaced and another damaged slightly because 2 of the 3 nylon tip chime plungers had broke off. I had to buy 3 new Chime bar plungers and Sleeves but luckily the coils were all OK. Lots of metal shavings around the Chime box area from the damage. Also not shown in this picture is that the I believe the copper or brass pins that hold the Chime Bars in place had 2 out of 3 in bad shape where it was almost worn all the way through and needed replacement. I found a replacement that works perfectly which is a regular coat hanger wire that is the same exact diameter as the originals. Just cut to length with a tin snip and get your needle nose pliers to bend the loop on the end. Looks just like the original except for the color and should last another 40+ years.
Last but not least the Cabinet where the Coin Box sits, WOW! You can actually set a Coin Cox in there now!
If this machine ever saw a route again good luck to thieves picking this machine up and dropping it hoping the Coin box will come crashing out of the bottom of the Cabinet!
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