Need help identifying this machine

[bucho25]

I have recently acquired a slot machine as payment on a debt.

While I'm not completely useless, I am however, unfamiliar with slot machines.

I need help in identifying this machine.  It is a 25c slot, 3 reels.  Says "4th coin - 1000" on the front.  Can play up to 4 coins.

To the best of my knowledge, it is a Bally slot machine, but I cannot find any specific info on the machine itself (maybe not looking in the right places?).  It came out of a casino sometime in the 1980s...so I've been told.

I have uploaded pictures of the machine to flickr.com--the link is below.

If any of you knowledgeable folks could take a quick look, and give me any info about it, I would be very grateful.  Thanks!

PHOTOS:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/74279395@N03/

[ricker]

Hey bucho25,


I am no expert at anything, but it looks to be a Bally E-2088 as i found a picture of it in a Marshal Fey book. 1982 called "Buys-a-Pays", Wide Reel.

Richard

[proten]

Post a picture of the reel assembly in side.

[bucho25]

Will this suffice?

(from the flickr.com images i posted earlier)

if not i can take another picture

[proten]

Looks like a conversion machine.
Maybe a Summit conversion?   
Barry might know (Foxsslots).

[FOXSSLOTS1]

it is a conversion - not a summit - as it has no control boards - does have reel readers - so it is electronic?   Has bally parts kinda sorta but the rest is new to me.

[CVslots]

Foxslots is right on. We acquired a handful of these (or very similar anyway!) in a bulk lot we bought. They are Bally conversions, as we found some that had 3 I.D. Plates on them (1 Bally & 2 IGT). Looks like it was an IGT mod done on electronic reel readers?? Ours all have a board behind the reel mech that controls the reel reader and the hopper. Our guess was they were some of the machines IGT bought and converted in the early 80s...

These are on my agenda today to part out and scrap, so if you need any parts, you need to contact me ASAP!

[bucho25]

Well, thing is, I got it pretty cheap--I could at least get my $ back selling it as-is, but if I can get it working for cheap enough to make it worth the effort, I'd be interested. 

When we went to check it out, we moved it to the front of the garage, plugged it in, all the lights came on.  It doesn't completely close all the way (well not enough to latch shut), and there isn't a key to the lock....but anyway--held the door closed, put a quarter in, pulled the arm, and it worked.  Tried it a second time...it worked.

So, we loaded it into the truck (with care), and left it standing upright, tied in place.  Well, I get home, load it on a dolly, take it inside...and then when turn it on, it's on tilt.  Unplug and restart it a couple times, it wasn't on tilt anymore.  I put a quarter in it, but now the arm doesn't unlock, so you can't pull it down.  So, don't know if it's not taking the coin right (coin goes in the hopper though), or if it's related to it being on tilt earlier, or what...maybe a solenoid is bad?

I didn't have a long drive home with it, but I do live on a mountain, so I'm assuming that's what tilted it, by the way.  Didn't get man-handled loading/unloading, and I didn't have to drive over any speed bumps on the way, so I don't know what else woulda caused that. 

Any comments/suggestions, just send 'em my way, I'd be happy to hear them.   

[bucho25]

Ok, in the picture of the inside that i posted above....

in the top right-hand corner, there's a green solenoid.  directly below (and slightly in front of) that, there's a lever, that's supposed to move up and stay connected to this magnetized part above it, so that it will allow the arm to be pulled down when you put a quarter in it.  when you put the coin in it, everything seems to be working up to the point where that lever clicks up, unlocking the arm.  but, that lever doesn't move...you can do it by hand, and then pull the arm down, and everything works, but that's about it.

first off, do you understand what i'm trying to say, and if i'm making enough sense, what could be going on there?



(i just went ahead and attached the close-up of the area i'm talking about)