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I'm still a novice at slot repair but my Jennings Governor has been playing and paying just fine... until last night.
I have a tradition of NOT checking the jackpot mechanism and like to just hit it naturally. Well last night I got a TIC TAC LEMON. And, KER-CHUNK... the jackpot released. So it works which is great, but should have been the TOE!
I don't think it can be the third reel alignment since it pays properly with all other combinations?

Inspect the 3rd. reel strip. Some past owner might have placed a lemon over the original symbol. I've seen this happen on several machines.

I think they do that when installing bugs on the big win symbol. So the bug may have been removed over the years, but the extra symbol remains.

What is the next symbol below the lemon?

No sticker over the lemon and the symbol below is an orange.

I guess the next thing is take the mech out and just duplicate the situation to see if it trips? I wonder if it was hung up on something previously? I never manually tripped the jackpot before.