Coin Entry Horseshoe Magnet

[RameGoom]

Yes, non-magnetic to sub "non-metallic". Thanks for the clarification, good catch.
Here's a couple of views of those magnets:

[MONTI]

Well, I may be wrong, and my wife tells me I am most the time, but I don't see how not having a magnet mounted would cause improper coin feeding.
Some of the original machines I have run across to restore have had the magnet removed for whatever reason somewhere during their lifetime and there has been no issue with proper coin feeding thru the head.
I know, for example, on a Pace circular head mechanism there is a lever that detects a coin is already located above the circular head ready to be pushed down and the lever is there to prevent double coining to occur and if the lever is bent and rubbing or sticking it will cause the coin to be diverted by mistake but I don't believe that is your issue and as I don't currently have an early Jennings in my shop I cannot check that out.
I would check thoroughly the coin travel thru the head and see if there is some form of obstruction as the magnet not being present should not be an issue.
Anyone else out there have an opinion on this?

[RameGoom]

Doing a before-and-after test with it, definitely made a difference in accepting dimes. I was probably around 70% accepted before the magnet and around 95% after.

The logic I am using is that all mechanical coin accepters used on vending and gaming machines have a magnet in the path; both for slug rejection and for Eddy Current diversion.

I definitely saw a difference without it.


***This was with a dime machine. I didn't see much difference on a quarter machine***

[randyjaco]

Thanks for posting the pictures. On all 3 of my machines the magnets have been removed.
I wonder why they are removed, unless S/M magnets have a particularly scrap value?

Randy