Wichita, KS
Quoted from MrBally:My dad took me to a bowling alley (he didn't bowl) to play the pinball machines. My mechanical and electrical curiosity got the best of me. Williams Gay '90's swinging target and the two drop targets grabbed my attention. How did they work?
How did the score reels know how to move from 9 to 10? Gas pumps were electro-mechanical back then and the reels were touching one another. The reels on a pin were separated and electrically stepped. I wanted to know how they worked.
How many here remember electro-mechanical gas pumps. How few here remember totally mechanical gas pumps with the glass cylinders?
Also, see my pinside story.
Nice story.
The glass cylinder gas pumps were before my time but I grew up with the electromechanical pumps. Some even had a glass bowl filled with gas next to the price reels and you could watch an impeller rotate as gas was pumping. I don’t know if the impeller was for show or actually did something but I was always fascinated watching it.
