scudie
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Post by scudie on Jun 22, 2019 7:42:36 GMT
Hi I have a 2100 that I bought here in the uk it had been recently imported from America, so it has a US slug rejector.
Adjacent to the coin slot there is a list of how many plays for each denomination of coin, it will take quarters , nickels , & dimes but when I tried to insert a half dollar the coin would not go in. On inspection with a torch there appears to be a metal bar blocking off part of the coin slot.
Would it have left the factory like this ? Or is this something an operator would have fitted later while it was in service.
If this is a common modification why would they do it & how big a job would it be to remove.
Cheers Scudie
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Post by Ron Rich on Jun 22, 2019 13:11:42 GMT
Hi Scudie,
All, US jukebox makers purchased their coin equipment from either "National Rejectors Inc." (NRI),or,(after about the mid 50's) "Coin Acceptors inc."(CoinCo).
Post WW 2, these companies offered a three coin unit, that took only the NDQ coins. In the late 40's, early 50's, a company called Royal Mfg Co. "invented" an add on half dollar conversion coin unit, and a HD bonus unit for Seeburgs. Sometime in the mid 50's both companies came out with an "add-on", half dollar unit. Both were OPTIONS, for many years. I don't know when WurliTzer made the 4 coin unit standard, but Seeburg did it with the LPC-1, domestically, only (most of the model "Y-U's" also were so equipped, two years earlier, as they included the (then new) USPU-1 type, 4 coin, pricing unit).
I assume, the 2100 you have was never set-up for the half dollar. Note: In late 1966, both NRI and CoinCo, offered a "4 in one" rejector, that was put into service on the 67 model phono's. Ron Rich
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scudie
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Post by scudie on Jun 23, 2019 8:09:26 GMT
Just as a thought my 5210 only takes ndq and I have read that these were made 56/57. Where as the 5250 58 on will take half dollars,
I was told my 2100 was a 57 the coin slot is definitely designed to take half dollars and the adjacent label tells me how many plays I would get for half a dollar so I guess this would have had to have been an option when it was built.
Cheers Scudie
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Post by Ron Rich on Jun 23, 2019 13:09:47 GMT
Hi Scudi,
On phonograph, it would be my guess that someone, in the last 60, or so years, installed the optional/in-correct instruction label, for that phono ! If you search around, there s a chance the correct one is still available (re-pro,of course)--lol Ron Rich
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