What the heck does this button do?

[rackoon]

I have a Midway coin door that I bought on eBay last year and it has one leaf switch chrome colored button in the middle near the top. It doesn't look added on because the way the metal is stamped around it.
    What the heck is it for?

[Buddabing]

You have to press it every 108 minutes or else the world will end.

[Fozzy The Bear]

You have to press it once a week or all of the Juice will leak out of the chips on the main board and melt your coin door. 

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

[thebrownshow]

DON'T TOUCH IT!  IT'S THE HISTORY ERASER BUTTON, YOU FOOL!

[NinjaEpisode]

You have to press it every 108 minutes or else the world will end.

Perfect LOST Reference!

[PCtech]

I guessing the button is a coin return, in case the quarter/token gets stuck inside the mech.

Everybody elses's suggestions are much more interesting though 

[woodygjw]

If I read your description correctly it is the tilt switch.  In a Midway cab, if the coin door is kicked, it will reset the game, and it will clear all your credits.  Thats how it is in my ms pac man.

woody

[loddie]

You have to press it every 108 minutes or else the world will end.

Or maybe nothing will happen 

[MYX]

You have to press it every 108 minutes or else the world will end.

Or maybe nothing will happen 

But may be it will.

[allroy1975]

You have to press it every 108 minutes or else the world will end.

Or maybe nothing will happen 

But may be it will.

seriously...are you willing to take that chance?  btw..I was a second late once..and nothing seemed to happen....so far....

[rackoon]

Its not a coin mech. This button has a momentary contact leaf switch on the back of the door. Also the button is about 1" across.

This door looks like all the midway doors I have ever seen yet, it this one extra button.

[Kremmit]

Sounds like a credit button to me.

[Witchboard]

Is the button on the inside or outside of the door?  Pic?

[Havok]

That button makes Bush lose a brain cell each time it's pressed. No need to press anymore, it's been done too many times already...

[F1r3f1ght3r]

wire tilt switch to credit input..... impress your friends by doing the "Fonz" routine.


bad idea.... that would be cab abuse.

[BobbyG66]

Go ahead, press it.

I dare you...

[rackoon]

The button is on the outside of the door. I didn't realize that this is such a oddity

    I suppose I will need to post a pic as soon as my wife gets home and supervises the use of her digital camera. That thing is like the size of a freaking credit card. I hate it. I cant touch the thing with out touching a button. Its covered with them. The Japanese should make a digital camera for fat white guys with pudgy fingers. Oh well, I digress.

[ShinAce]

I'm gonna vote credit switch....

[VESUVIUS]

I would like to see a picture please. If the button is accessible from the outside and its not a credit button perhaps it is a start button. I have a Century Track and Field cabinet that has a slam switch. The switch looks similar to a regular leaf switch but it's longer with a weight on the end.

[Witchboard]

If it was a pinball coin door, I would think it may be a start switch too, but a picture is worth a thousand words. 

[Kremmit]

If it was a pinball coin door, I would think it may be a start switch too, but a picture is worth a thousand words. 

Oooh, I'm changing my vote.  Chrome switch, not an add-on... that sounds very likely.  I just wasn't thinking pinball the first time around.

It'll make a darn nice credit switch on a MAME cab, though.  Why hasn't anybody ever though of pinball doors before when the credit switch question comes up?

[Toonces]

It's a start switch. Commonly seen on these doors with a red button with the word START engraved in white on it. Not sure which game would have the chrome button. Very common on Space Invaders with a metal plug instead of a switch. If you want to get rid of the switch, I'd be happy to trade you a plug for it

Here's a pic of one with a plug. http://cgi.ebay.com/Bally-Midway-Video-Game-Coin-Door_W0QQitemZ6257711183QQcategoryZ13718QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem


Toonces

[whatzcrackn]

I have a Midway coin door that I bought on eBay last year and it has one leaf switch chrome colored button in the middle near the top. It doesn't look added on because the way the metal is stamped around it.
    What the heck is it for?

Anything you dont push it three times..  My X did and I have not seen her since.  Could be a new weapon for the Army.  Be afraid, be very afraid!!!!

[Witchboard]

AHA!  It's a coin door for a 280-ZZZAP.  It's the start button.    One's on eBay here.

[Thargok]

All of the old coin doors have them, although a majority don't have the button but rather a bolted on cover.  I however put two USB ports in this hole, which is nice most of the time.

[Teebor]

You have to press it every 108 minutes or else the world will end.

Or maybe nothing will happen 

But may be it will.

seriously...are you willing to take that chance?  btw..I was a second late once..and nothing seemed to happen....so far....

I was late out of bed one morning and the train I was supposed to catch crashed, true story anyone in the UK remember the train crash just south of cambridge about 10 years ago?  I was meant to be on that train but didnt get my lazy ass out of bed.
So now if anyone tells me off for being late I tell them that it could have saved my life once.

So as you can see not doing something when you are supposed to can be good.

[nostrebor]

It is a start switch. On my 280zzzap the first game starts as soon as you put in a credit, but if you put in multiple credits, you have to push the start switch to begin the second games and so on.

It would make a fantastic credit button on a mame cabinet.

[rackoon]

It totaly looks like the one Whichboard posted but my button is metal and chrome.

So does this mean my coin door belongs to a old pinball machine?