Help ID this coin door...

[jekbrown]

Hey gang.  I've recently purchased an old over/under style coin door from a member of this site and was wondering if anyone here could tell me anything about it.  What game, or games, it might have been used on originally...what type of coin mechs they use, or anything else.  It's going to end up being used on my first MAME cab and I like ultra-detailed writeups...so if you know anything at all about this type of door, I'd appreciate it if you could pass on the info.    If the guy who assembled these in Timbuktu only had one leg, and you know it for a fact, I'd like to know it too.   

Anyway, all I know from messing with it is that it has steel main doors and the little reject coin doors are steel also.  It has a cast aluminum frame, reject coin button housing and the frame around where the coin drops down is cast AL also.  It has Atari coin-reject buttons. 





closer up of the coin mechs...



Inside the top door, next to the coin mechs, is a small black sticker that says "Coin Controls Royton Oldham England Checked" on it.  The main door hinges are spot welded to the doors themselves, but attach to the frame with screws.

Can't think of anything else I can add that might help ID the beast.  So....whaddya think?

[jessybr]

hi looks like a door from a taito machine  special criminal investigation or chase hq i think
greetzz

[jekbrown]

oh cool!  If I might ask, what features identify it as such?  

It does look like the one in this not-so-good pic from klov...



...and this one too...



Alternatively, it also looks like one off of Star Wars...



which is from Atari.     If it's from a Taito game and not an Atari game, what's the tip off?

[Kevin Mullins]

That is about as generic of a Coin Controls style coin door as they come. Used on many,many different games by many different manufacturers.

[Vigo]

Yep...very standard. The only thing you probably have to go off of is the Atari logo.

[boardjunkie]

Yea...its super common. We called these types "over/under" coin doors.....

[jekbrown]

well that's no fun! 

Thanks for the info guys.  I suppose it's good news that it's an ultra-common type, if I need any parts, they shouldn't be hard to find...

[TopJimmyCooks]

I just gave away one of those in good condition, but it had plastic loonie mechs.  Had the coin bucket, though.  They're easy to come by. 

[boardjunkie]

Nothing wrong with the brownish/yellow plastic mechs. We actually had less trouble with those than the metal "Coin Mechanisms" ones. Dirty? Wash 'em in the sink with a brush and dish soap.....

[opt2not]

Nothing wrong with the brownish/yellow plastic mechs. We actually had less trouble with those than the metal "Coin Mechanisms" ones. Dirty? Wash 'em in the sink with a brush and dish soap.....

Then strip the door metal with a Wire-wheel in your drill chuck, and repaint with hammered black. Or you can get it sandblasted if you have access to that resource. Either way, these coin doors/mechs aren't hard to get up to tip-top shape. Working too.

[AlienInferno]

I've got an over/under coin controls door.  Slightly different design on the door itself but it's a good coin door.  If you look in my sig at my build thread there are photos of it before, after it was stripped of paint, and after it was painted.  Like stated above they are very easy to get in tip-top shape.

[Kevin Mullins]

Nothing wrong with the brownish/yellow plastic mechs. We actually had less trouble with those than the metal "Coin Mechanisms" ones. Dirty? Wash 'em in the sink with a brush and dish soap.....

But the metal ones are cool-er .... Just because.

Seriously though, the plastic ones are easier to maintain and have less problems. Like you said, a good soapy wash is usually all they need.

[eds1275]

Very similar to my mech - it's very easy to screw in some microswitches behind the coin return thingy to register a coin when the reject is pressed. I wired it up with the coin slot microswitch as well so either gets you a "credit".

[jekbrown]

Good idea on the microswitch, I might have to try that.

You guys say 'clean the plastic ones with soap/water!'....but what do you clean the metal ones with?  blast'em in brake cleaner or something?

Also, I think I'm missing a reject coin button return spring.  Is this the kind of thing you can find in the hardware section of a good hardware store, or cheap online or...?

[compute]

Thanks for posting the microswitch pic, eds.  I'm still debating how i want my gameroom to run, but it's nice to see an actual picture instead of just a description.

On a side note, both of my cabs have O/U coin doors.  One is early 80's Midway and the other is from a mid-90's dart machine (I think).  There are subtle differences.  That said, it looks more like the later one than the earlier one.  The differences may just be due to the operator, though.

[boardjunkie]

Midway never used over-under doors...at least not in the golden years.

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