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This slot is a non vending model. It will not refill the jackpot. The coin tube overflow lever pushes the coins into the cash box chute. I see no provisions for the coins to get fed into the jackpot fill chute. I suspect that the cash box chute was changed previously, but I don't believe this has anything to do with the issue. I am new to the hobby. Any ideas?

Thanks, Gene

Many would be glad to help or advise. Need a clear picture of the front of the mech with chutes to tell. Watling normally very simple coin paths to jackpot and coin box.

Flip

Here are a few pics. I can't see how the coins get to the jackpot fill chute. Thanks for the help.

Gene

You also need a picture of the inside of the cabinet showing the jackpot.

Watlingboy

Hi Gene. Here is basically same Watling machine. I am pointing at the feed chute to jackpot. 2nd photo is inside shot of the twin jackpots that line up with the chute when mech is in place. Play the mech out side of the case and make sure coins are directed down the jackpot fill chute to which I am pointing. Check that "full jp and chute" deflection plate to make sure it isn't impeding coin movement. Fairly simple so you may have to disassemble the whole chute assembly to check - take picture so you can put back together easily. About it - yours looks complete - should work.

Flip

Gene - more info on your questions. See under Pictures and the Watling Questions thread. That is how the jackpot chute is fed on my Watling Twin Jackpot that I just bought this week. You do not have this assembly and may be why you aren't feeding coins to the jackpots.

Flip

Thanks for all of the replies. The issue with this slot is that all coins drop into the coin tube. No coins get deflected into the jackpot chute. I thought that perhaps that my mech is missing a lever or pin to get the coin to feed the jackpot chute after the coin tube is filled.

Flip. Thanks for the info. Did any of these Watling jackpots have to be fed manually?

No, these jackpots were self filling. Perhaps something very simple has been over looked. Unless your machine has the Rube Goldberg mechanism, which yours doesn't, no coins will go into the jackpot until the coin tube is full. Then the rake off pin will knock the coins off the top of the coin stack and send them to the jackpot. When that is full, they will divert to the cash box. You should be able to fill the coin tube, play the mech, outside of the case, and see where the coins.

Watlingboy

As you can see from my 1st pic, the rake off pin is a couple of inches below the entry of the jackpot chute. The pin pushes the coin directly into the cash box chute. Interestingly, this slot has the diverter flap that if it were pushed out, the coin would enter the jackpot chute. There is some wear on the back of the flap suggesting that it has been pushed in the past. The rear frame doesn't appear to have ever had the Rube Goldberg device, no holes etc. Perhaps this slot is a mixed bag of several different machines?