jammining Mills War Eagle 25 cents

[bobsterncat]

Ok please don't burn me if I am doing this wrong please tell me as I am new

I have had a mills War Eagle for about a month and it started jamming last week. I was very frrustrated. I can’t tell you how many times I had to take the back of re-align everything to get it to work. Stupid me-----Today when it jammed, I took the mechanism out and noticed on the left hand side of the coin escalator that a screw looked loose, and it was -----along with a lot more. Then it occurred to me it’s just like a motorcycle that it needs to be have everything that can be tightened checked. Well I did find a lot of loose screws. After reassembly it seems to be perfect. I sat for an hour and ran quarters through w/o a single jam. I also adjusted the pneumatic arm per the books instructions One thing that has never happened is that the coins in the two windows have never been ejected, I manually ejected them today. Do you know enough to make me savvy as to when this should happen and if I have a machine in need of adjustment or something broken?

[MikeB]

Those two "windows" on the front are Jackpots. They are only supposed to dump the coins, when you get the 3 jackpot symbols across the middle payline. That obviously doesn't happen very often, so it can go a very long time before ever dumping out.

What you can do to test it, is hand place some coins into them. Cycle the mechanism as normal so the reels start their spin, BUT do NOT let the clock run all the way out,then stick your finger on the clock mech fan and stop it from spinning mid cycle. By hand (while still holding that fan) rotate each reel to line up the jackpot symbols on the middle line. Make sure they stay there, and take your finger away from the clock fan and let it run out all the way as normal. When it does its pay check, it should dump one of the jackpots.

If that all works for you, you should be good to go.