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Epyx:

Hi guys,

Hoping someone can help me with these Coin mechs...the metallic one is a Coin Controls (Royton Oldham England) USA .25 mech and the other a plastic CA US .25 mech.  Any idea where the magnets would be (to remove) to make these take Canadian quarters?





CheffoJeffo:

Try opening up the plastic mech ("to open squeeze") -- I just opened up one of my Canadian CA mechs and can't tell if there would be space for a magnet in there (mine has a spring), but I would expect it to be right around the area labeled "to open squeeze".

EDIT: Turns out I do have a US CA mech in my box o' mechs -- the magnet is the round cylinder at the bottom when you open the first "door".

Epyx:

You are right...little magnetic cylinder which is pretty easy to remove.

Now to figure out the metalic ones!

Thanks!

lilshawn:

the coin controls metal, is inside the square part.

the plastic one, i'm not sure... i always go with the imonex style and throw these ones out.

http://www.happ.com/cc/42118400.htm

CheffoJeffo:

The metal one looks like a Coin Mechanisms mech that I have in the box o' mechs and the magnet in that one is definitely  behind the tilted rectangle near the centre. It is a pretty strong magnet in mine, so if you pull that arm out and put a Canadian quarter on it, it should stick right away. Getting it open on my mech looks to be a challenge, which is probably why it ended up in the box (and it came there from somebody else's box of unused mechs).

 :cheers:

EDIT: I see lilshawn already got this one and should be ashamed of pitching such lovely mechs away and then paying $30 for a replacement!  ;)

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