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Is there such a thing as a penny payout disk for a bally hopper. I see all the others but no penny did they make any. I'm trying to build one for the kids to play. Thanks terry

You might get away with a nickel shelf wheel...might.
Check with Barry Foxslots or johntoomanynumbers ( rudy's ) on ebay?
They have a bunch of Bally hopper parts.

5 cent disc  won,t work   better shot with a dime disc  ,  a sheet metal  shop might beable to make you a penny one if you have the old hopper were its welded on you can remove disc by drilling out welds, we have changed 100,s to 25 cent from 5 and 10 cents

Has anyway ever made one into a penny machine. Thanks   

I tried using pennies in my Gamemaker with a nickel hopper but it didn't work. The coin acceptor worked fine, and when I turned the hopper slowly every coin seemed  to break the optics, but in actual use I kept getting coin out errors. It would usually stop with a penny sitting right on the knife waiting to drop. I didn't get any physical jams, just software errors caused by slight physical incompatibilities.

Steve I don't know what kind of hoppers you have been getting, but I've never seen a shelf wheel welded to the pin wheel.  And I've  seen very few drill bits that will drill weld.

lol sounds like he needs an acetylene torch!

Let's back up and punt! Thank you so much this will save me some time. But still working on it. And how did you get the coin mech to work with penny?

If it's a coin comparitor, replace the sample coin with a penny. You might need to shim (or change the built in shim for) the optics as well.

Thank you ! Let you know how it goes.

We used a drill pressandto drill way over 100 of them off these were on the older  hopppers on 742 , 873 831 809 ,later they started using a removable plate held by screws , as far as the coin mech a old style dime can be made to take a penny by bending the cradle
good luck

Thanks steve