Hacking a Coin Controls reject button for a Coinco coin door

[Nocturnaloner]

Here is a tip for all those who might've bought a Coinco (yes, that's Coinco, which is different from Coin Controls) coin door, and are stuck without decent coin rejector buttons.  I got an old 2802 coin door off of ebay, not knowing the difference, and discovered that Coinco reject buttons lack the integrated coin slot seen on the Happ and Coin Controls varieties.  Instead, the coin is inserted next to the button, and the entry bezel has a notch in it to accomodate this.   Furthermore, you can't just swap in different entry bezels from the other brands, they won't fit.  The Coinco style of button is not being reproduced by anyone currently, and originals are getting harder to find.  All is not lost though.  I ended up buying a pair of new Coin Controls reject buttons (25-8000 in the Betson catalog) from a very friendly Betson sales rep, who unfortunately didn't know the difference.  Once I had them, I decided to make the best of it by taking a mini-hack (hand-held hacksaw blade) and carefully cutting off the 'extra' coin slot material.  I then sanded down the rough edge with fine sandpaper.  At that point, the width is perfect to fit the Coinco bezel, but the button is about a 16th of an inch short.  I cut a small rectangle of cardboard from the back of a pad of drawing paper, painted it black, and superglued it to the bottom of the entry chute.  Problem solved.  Note that the plastic pushrod on the button is also a bit shorter than the original Coinco, so you'll need to have a reasonably stiff spring to compensate.  I got a pack of off the shelf springs from Do-It-Best Hardware that worked just fine.    Bigger pics are at my website below.