Reel Mechanism Restoration (Slot Machine Part 3) 

Link to Patreon post explaining the inner workings of this machine: www.patreon.com/posts/47454715

Honestly the most wondrous restore I've ever watched. I can only stare in admiration at your patience and skill!

Excellent - but I hope you are going to post a final video of the reassembly.

I always wondered how those mechanical machines knew when to payout and trigger jackpots. Now I know it was just some of the most clever engineering I have ever seen. Thanks for showing the detail of how everything works!

Wonderful! A video explaining how it works in the description. I have always wanted to know how to make one myself, and nowhere online could I find anything but "here's how to win big at the slots!" Thank you. Of course, my workshop is not yet ready, so I'll have to wait to watch it. But I'm excited!

Just watched all three videos, that was amazing and absolutely captivating to watch. I have to admit, not having any knowledge in this area, I don't know why some parts are sandblasted and other parts are just washed, I would have thought you would have sandblasted all the metal to get off all the imperfections and rust. Also I thought bluing preserved against rust, so was confused why the blued components also got anti corrosion treatment. Well done though, your restoration is a thing of beauty.

I am impressed with your mechanical skills and appreciative of your abiding patience! Be well and keep posting your work....it's inspirational (to me, anyway).

You did a great job. I watched all three videos in awe and amazement.

The most satisfying restoration yet!!!!! Awesome job!!!

0:48 That sound.. with a flathead nonetheless. Epic.

Amazing 🤩 WORK!!!🔥🔥 (would love to see it all assembled in a part 4.*) 😃

WHOA. What a difference the paper made. OMG!!

Wow absolutely amazing work I have been blown away by the detail

Anyone else find it really satisfying when screws are busted loose after untold years, like 1:40?

A pleasure to watch. Great work in all three of these.

Wonderful! Maybe I could disassemble such a machine, but reassemble? No chance! I admire you and all other restaurators for doing this and I have no idea how you can do that.

Congratulations. Impressive results has me thinking about doing my own.

I figured youd end it with using it with everything together and ...surprise, surprise, surprise... you won the jackpot!

The Golden Gate Casino in Las Vegas - the oldest casino in operation in Vegas, dating back to 1906 - should give you a million dollars for completing this project, and making this machine probably better than the day those just like it were first installed at their casino!!!

Was it my ears or did it sound like the shaft clamp threads hadn't been chased with a tap? Almost like you glass beaded them and they didn't get cleaned after that. The end result was spectacular. I've spent hours playing with Microsoft Paint, doing the same kind of image clean-up you did, total PITA when you're doing it, but oh so satisfying when it's done.

Yes, waited forever for this vid !

Excited for next time!

I wish I could say you did a good job but it was way over my pay grade, Very talented I loved the video 👍

will we have part 4, the final test?

Huge applause for great work

This video is a little old so you may have figured this out by now. I'm a Developer/Graphic Artist by trade. It was painful for me to watch how long it took to clean up those images in photoshop. And I think I've seen you struggle on more recent videos. There is a much much better way to do this. If you bring the image into Illustrator you can use the "Image Trace" tool that will create outlines of the images that with a little knob tweaking will get you 95% of the way there with a vector graphic in less than 30 seconds. I hope this helps you at some point in the future. Great work, thanks for sharing it.

Two fish are sitting in a bowl, one says to the other 'Hey Man, you know how to drive this thing?'

Very impressive work! Thanks for sharing with us!

Really good content again - thank you for that!:-) Greetings from Germany!

Beautiful work & restoration. Looks and sounds great!👊👍👍

Looking good can't wait to see it finished Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

super cool series. up there with best have seen

Ni esas maravillas de la ingeniería, ni esa estatura de hombres de ciencias se dan en estos tiempos.

lovely job!

This part should have been posted as part 2 i think.

when you want to correct time stains, brownishing, etc on old papers, it's sometimes easier only to play with contrast/light...

How did you match the 80s cellophane tape / sharpie blue color? You never see that color of shiny blue on anything anymore!

Man, do you sell these restorations? I would LOVE to own a mechanical vintage slot machine like this. The restoration is gorgeous.

Where is the final result!?

That wasn't rust...... it was nicotine! Great job on the restoration!

Great job man 👌👌👌

Well done. Do you have to balance the wheels? Thanks

cool project 👍

Man, you could send this to any casino or do you want to keep it for your home arcade?

Bravissimo!!!.. eccezionale!!

Craftsman!!

No vid showing it completed?

Nice 👍

Have I missed something ?. Is there video of the machine completely reassembled.

Well Done

It would be fun to design and create one of these from scratch

one time i restrored a whole slot machine in 6 hours. AND I DIDNT EVEN GO TO THE BATHROOOM.

hola que buen video

How do you figure out how to line up the holes so all the payouts still properly work?

Ok how did you get the reel strip synced with the reel mechanism . I have no clue how you did that.

Those bolts should have been cleaned to oh, it just makes me cringe when I hear that grinding of them turning in there.

Is this reel or just fantasy...

the are no limones on the left one😮

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Where is the final product?

I sometimes do get a thrill/feeling that; these episodes, weren't shown in order. It's good however still that, the mechanic put the slot machines case on last. Retaining stability is what the slot machine will do.

Шестеренки неправильные (прямые грани), в первом выпуске гайки квадратные! Как так?

Harika

Wheres part 4?

Where part 4...

1 jackpot symbol per reel, 20 stops per reel. Probability of a jackpot = 20x20x20 = 1 in 8000 spins. Once you know how many nickels a typical jackpot dump is, you can use that number, along with the paytable, and the quantity per reel of each symbol, to work out the overall "hold" of the machine. I had a Mills penny machine that had a house edge of around 30%! Contrast that with modern low-stakes Vegas slots, which hold around 15%.

Левое колесо задевает что-то при работе, весь ремонт псу под хвост(

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photoshop?

بيرررفكت

Ugly... History of this machine is disappear...