jennings sun chief improper payout help

This area is to discuss slot machines. A slot machine is defined as a machine that pays the customer something of value (coin, token, etc.) when a winning combination is hit.

This area created on 2/7/17

jennings sun chief improper payout help

Postby georgetwo922 » Tue Mar 28, 2017 8:29 am

I have a Jennings Sun Chief quarter slot that pays out usually 1 coin short of the proper payout for the 3 oranges and plums. The cherries seem to be ok. Any help would be appreciated.
georgetwo922
 
Posts: 17
Joined: Tue Mar 28, 2017 6:15 am

Re: jennings sun chief improper payout help

Postby JHSS-1944 » Wed Mar 29, 2017 3:42 am

What about the other pay outs , they short also ???
if so then you might have a British used machine. been a lot of them up for sale lately & most of the sellers won't mention it, = won't sell. few up on eban now.
pay out slides are of a different thickness due to the size difference of those coins.
jeff H.
JHSS-1944
 
Posts: 676
Joined: Tue Feb 02, 2016 3:04 am
Location: Peoria, Arizona

Re: jennings sun chief improper payout help

Postby georgetwo922 » Wed Mar 29, 2017 3:13 pm

Thank you for the response. You may be right about that, it usually pays ok for the 1 and 2 cherries, but everything else is off by one coin. That would explain it. Thank you.
georgetwo922
 
Posts: 17
Joined: Tue Mar 28, 2017 6:15 am

Re: jennings sun chief improper payout help

Postby Swami » Wed Mar 29, 2017 5:01 pm

When these machines were new, Quarters were made out of Silver. Modern Quarters are Clad and are Slightly Thicker. Once you get into the Larger Payouts of Oranges, Plums, and Bells on a 25 cent Sun Chief all the Payouts will be Short by One Coin. If you want your machine to Pay Correctly you will need to use Silver Coins.
Swami
 
Posts: 79
Joined: Tue Dec 24, 2013 9:35 pm
Location: Southern California

Re: jennings sun chief improper payout help

Postby georgetwo922 » Thu Mar 30, 2017 8:52 am

That makes more sense, I kind of suspected that from the beginning. I removed the coin tube and physically deposited the proper amount of quarters for the largest payout, (18), and when manually pushing the slides back, it always rejected the top coin, and I could see that the last coin was just slightly too high to enter the payout. I can live with the shortage of one quarter on those payouts, but if there is any cure for this I would like to hear about it. Thank you for your response.
georgetwo922
 
Posts: 17
Joined: Tue Mar 28, 2017 6:15 am

Re: jennings sun chief improper payout help

Postby Beads » Thu Mar 30, 2017 9:29 am

Silver quarters....start saving $$$$
I have the same issue with Canadian coins....but can live with it.
Beads
 
Posts: 50
Joined: Thu Dec 05, 2013 7:38 pm
Location: Vancouver, BC

Re: jennings sun chief improper payout help

Postby radiorich123 » Thu Mar 30, 2017 10:26 am

I would shim the 4 post that hold the coin slides.Maybe 40 or 60 or 80 thousands of an inch. I use small washers and you might have to trim the sides of the washers to fit.

Rich
REPAIRS ANTIQUE RADIOS AND COIN OPERATED MACHINES EMAIL
radiorich123@yahoo.com
WEB SIGHT www.technician.50megs.com
radiorich123
 
Posts: 489
Joined: Sat Dec 31, 2005 5:36 pm
Location: Wayne New Jersey

Re: jennings sun chief improper payout help

Postby georgetwo922 » Fri Mar 31, 2017 9:07 am

Shimming sounds like a good option, at least worth a try. I may do that another day, right now, I'm ok with the one quarter shortage. It normally only hits on either 1 or 2 cherry payouts which are correct.
georgetwo922
 
Posts: 17
Joined: Tue Mar 28, 2017 6:15 am

Re: jennings sun chief improper payout help

Postby kennyb » Fri Mar 31, 2017 12:00 pm

Shimming is not all ways the answer, it doesn't change the thickness of the side.

just one short input. ken
kennyb
 
Posts: 32
Joined: Tue Mar 25, 2014 5:07 pm

Re: jennings sun chief improper payout help

Postby marsonion » Fri Mar 31, 2017 2:00 pm

I suspect the general shorting of higher payouts when using contemporary coinage in these old machines is more typical than exceptional. For my dime machines, wherever there is a range of payout on the award card, the payout will invariably be on the bottom end of the range for oranges and often short one dime below range on the plums and higher; as you would expect, a stack of mercury dimes is always a smidge shorter than any stack of the same number of FDRs minted after 1965, and the difference naturally adds up more and more the higher the number of coins in the stack. Today I found that my Mills Dice consistently pays out only 15 of the 16 quarters due on an Eleven win; unless someone can convince me otherwise, I attribute this to a similar difference in thickness between the honest "junk-silver" quarters of the 1930s and the composite/clad 25c pieces in circulation today.
User avatar
marsonion
 
Posts: 607
Joined: Sun Jun 12, 2011 1:37 pm
Location: OR

Next

Return to Slots

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 20 guests

cron