BYOAC Tokens!!! Now Accepting Pre-Orders.

[Chris]

well, what is the final design?
maybe add that to the first post in this thread?  

Allroy

It's still being finalized, but right now these should look pretty close to the final design.

EDIT: To see the proposed designs, see the design thread in the Artwork forum.

[patrickl]

There is not gonna be a vote anymore?

[Chris]

I could be understanding wrong, but I thought at this point we were just voting on details, like stippling and text.  But for organizational sake, if you have questions on voting they probably should be brought up in the design thread.

Since I don't know for sure, though, I'll pull the images from this thread.  Sorry for the confusion...

[Santoro]

The voting on how to proceed is 2 to 1 in favor of waiting till Monday to let people propose alternate designs, and I am going to go with that.

The design above is the clear favorite so far, but who knows, Frosty or someone else may come up with a killer design over the weekend.  If that happens we will vote.

[Silverwind]

I would pay $35 for 200 dobule sided  

[Santoro]

Just in case anyone has been living under a rock (or not checking the Artwork and Buy/Sell/Trade forums,) the token design has been 95% completed and pre-orders are being taken.

I will post this information in the very first message of this thread also incase folks aren't inclined to read all 4 pages.

[hulkster]

id buy them, but they wont work with my happ coin mechs.  i know about the optical hack and all that, but i have yet to be convinced they will positively work....and that its easy to hack the mechs.

[Santoro]

id buy them, but they wont work with my happ coin mechs.  i know about the optical hack and all that, but i have yet to be convinced they will positively work....and that its easy to hack the mechs.

I can't say anything to promise, but if you look in the preorder thread there is a link to a document that describes how to adjust Happ quarter mechs to work with other tokens.

But if you are really that queasy about it, you should probably wait until a few folks have actually done it, then order.  There will probably still be some available a few weeks after we ship the initial batch of tokens out.  We might be sold out of brass by then though.

[mp2526]

id buy them, but they wont work with my happ coin mechs.  i know about the optical hack and all that, but i have yet to be convinced they will positively work....and that its easy to hack the mechs.

Hulkster,

Remind me which coin mechs came with the door I sold you.  Are they Happs coin mechs (actually produced by Industrias-Lorenzo), if so they will have an IL on the side?  Or do they have a WG (For Wells Gardner)?  If they are the Happs coin mechs, I'm about to put some pics up on my web site that will show how I "adjusted" a similar mech to accept .984 tokens.  When I get it up, I'll post here.  If it's a WG brand coin mech, I'll test one of mine at home tonight, but I believe all it will take for the WG mech is a screw adjustment.

[hulkster]

id buy them, but they wont work with my happ coin mechs.  i know about the optical hack and all that, but i have yet to be convinced they will positively work....and that its easy to hack the mechs.

Hulkster,

Remind me which coin mechs came with the door I sold you.  Are they Happs coin mechs (actually produced by Industrias-Lorenzo), if so they will have an IL on the side?  Or do they have a WG (For Wells Gardner)?  If they are the Happs coin mechs, I'm about to put some pics up on my web site that will show how I "adjusted" a similar mech to accept .984 tokens.  When I get it up, I'll post here.  If it's a WG brand coin mech, I'll test one of mine at home tonight, but I believe all it will take for the WG mech is a screw adjustment.

well im at work so i cant check the door right now, but i do still have the link with pics that you sent me before i bought it!  www.miavio.com/images/CoinDoors.zip
i bought the "new" door from you, and there are about 5 pics in that zip file that you sent me a long time ago.  good thing i havent deleted my messages by now.  anyway, look at those pics and tell me which door it is.

[mp2526]

Right, you got the only secure door I had for sale.  I have sold so many I forget who has what.  It looks from the pics that it came with Happ (IL) coin mechs.

Here is a quick tutorial that I whipped up explaining what is needed to make these mechs accept 0.984" tokens.

http://www.miavio.com/HappILMech.htm

I have done this to one of my coin doors and it has about a 90-95% success rate of accepting tokens, which is about what alot of old arcades are like for accepting quarters

The tokens I used to test this are from a used batch of 1000 0.984" tokens I got off of ebay.  I wouldn't expect that the BYOAC tokens should be much different and should work.  My suggestion is to use those BYOAC tokens as your test token when making the adjustment so that the mech will more likely accept the tokens.

If anyone has any questions let me know and I'll try to clarify anything.

[hulkster]

thanks for the tutorial!  this will work for the tokens, but will it work for all other coins?  i.e. nickels, dimes, pennies, etc.??  i know santoro's mechs will accept a crap load (and thats a lot) of different coins....will this hack do the same thing for smaller sizes?

[Santoro]

thanks for the tutorial!  this will work for the tokens, but will it work for all other coins?  i.e. nickels, dimes, pennies, etc.??  i know santoro's mechs will accept a crap load (and thats a lot) of different coins....will this hack do the same thing for smaller sizes?

I don't have mechs - you mean TheNasty?

[hulkster]

ha!  yeah, sorry....so many names in my head.  nasty's mechs!  didnt mean to dis you man.

[mp2526]

thanks for the tutorial!  this will work for the tokens, but will it work for all other coins?  i.e. nickels, dimes, pennies, etc.??  i know santoro's mechs will accept a crap load (and thats a lot) of different coins....will this hack do the same thing for smaller sizes?

No, unfortunately this just adjusts them to accept 0.984" tokens and quarters.  All smaller coins fall through the cradle and will be rejected.

[Santoro]

I didn't feel dissed!

[hulkster]

okay, but i can replace my mechs with nastys mechs without trouble?  installing and working i mean.

[mp2526]

They will fit your coin door.  As far as them working and how relaible they will work, I'll leave that question up to Nasty, but they look reliable.