Jennings Peacock

[Richard13]

Been gone for a few months taking care of my mother and bought a nice Jennings Peacock 100 percent original and complete down to the locks keys and both back doors and cash box. Got home today and opened the box and found this.

Did not go any further. Double boxed heavy padding but dropped upside down from who knows how high. Fed ex will tell me not adequately packed and deny the claim I'm sure.

If anyone has a top casting that would be great otherwise sadly another classic machine parted out and headed for scrap heap.

[Midcoast Vintage]

good luck collecting anything more than $100. from fedex. a friend just lost a claim. their fine print clearly states the do not insure antiquities.

[SLOT DYNASTY]

It is getting to be a contest, these past few years, to see if 'FedUp', (aka FedEx), and 'Oops', (aka UPS), can destroy
more slot machines than all of the law enforcement raids did, back in the 30's, 40's, & 50's. Then there's our good ole
USPS, that has been joining forces, and catching up with the other two.

[mechanic]

I don't have that casting but I have repaired these castings before and have a couple model B tops I'm repairing now. Looks like it may be repairable as it does not go through any of the detailing. It will need to be heliarced and tooled down. Lot to do but better than tearing it down for parts.

[damikeguy]

I agree with the Mechanic. That can be repaired if you want to invest some more time and $$.

[RameGoom]

Casting can be repaired, but the coin mechanism looks like it took a major compression hit. Lots of little parts in that, but probably can be repaired.

I had one similar where I had to put a steel plate into the coin mech to get it aligned being as its casting broke as well. The machine works perfectly but there are hairline cracks visible on the top casting.

I'd try to fix it.

[mechanic]

The gooseneck mounting stem can be repaired but you have to take off all the parts from the side frame before hand to do it right. I've seen soooooo many side frames like this one where who ever threw the busted piece away.

[JHSS-1944]

hate to say it but, this one has gone to slot heaven. it's gone......
o.k. ,so what happens to this stuff after they haul it away & give you the run around on any claim ?
into the dumpster ? seriously , a real question.
jeff H.

[RameGoom]

On the one I had received damaged, the seller took out extra insurance (at my request) and sure enough, I received the shipment with the coin slot protruding outside of the box. It was packaged fairly well, but not great. The seller filed a claim, so I kept every piece of packing and had to submit pictures of the box before I opened it, pictures of the damaged merchandise, etc.

IT IS IMPORTANT TO TAKE LOTS OF PICTURES before you open the package!

Anyway, it went back and forth with the shipper and eventually they paid - I worked it out with the seller for me to get $600 and the seller got the rest, since he did all the legwork. Then, UPS wanted me to ship the package back to their facility. I sent them the empty box with all of the packaging material inside, but not the machine.

UPS paid up once they got the box back. I got the machine to work, and in the end, UPS no doubt never examined it, and paid the claim once the package was received.

With a slightly damaged machine, it worked out OK. Still, you wonder how they can manage to trash a shipment - they are definitely professional at finding the valuable stuff and destroying it. Must be some sort of game they play between employees at the shipping depot.

[Richard13]

Thanks for the encouragement I'll post an update when I have one. I never took machine out of the box because I saw and felt the coin mech was not connected to anything anymore. I had fedex send me the claim paperwork and filled it out in detail. Included 10 SOLD examples from all sources I had in full color and detail and photos of the box and shipping padding and list of all padding used. Fed ex came and picked it up yesterday and taped it up just like it looked when it came.

Went to fed ex to send ex my claim paperwork to the and this is hilarious.....they don't have an address to ship to so fed ex cannot receive claims by overnight ALL THEY HAVE IS A PO BOX. I called and confirmed this and escalated the call to a supervisor who confirmed they do not have a way to accept fed ex from themselves. THEY MUST BE AFRAID IT MIGHT GET LOST OR DAMAGED LOL.

The kind person at the fed ex office offered to scan in the docs and email them to me for free so I could email them to the claims department. She was so embarrassed of their poor claims service....anyway no we play the waiting game.

I'm not buying machines to repair I liked this one and now to me it's totally ruined. Unless they pay me enough to have it professionally repaired I'll take what they give me if anything and part it out. Don't know anyone that can do a repair like it would need that would make it not noticeable so if anyone has any recommendations and approximate cost range I would appreciate it.