using the ole noodle...

[Huskerfan]

I recently bought a coin door for my homemade arcade machine and decided to use a bread pan for the quarter holder.  It's metal so you still hear the cachink of the quarter and screws right into my front panel.  And even sits at an angle to easily swoop the quarters out when you need more.  My wife tried to swap out my new bread pan for her old one but I said no way!

[Crowquill]

My wife tried to swap out my new bread pan for her old one but I said no way!

I don't know...you probably don't want to give her a(nother) reason to dislike your cab and hobby.

I could see how that could work pretty well. The quarter-hitting-metal sound is almost as good as the quarter-hitting-other-quarters noise. I put a heavy-duty ziploc bag of washers in the bottom of my coin bucket.  I giggle with glee every time I hear that noise. I know hearing that for the first time was one of the crowning moments of my cab build.

Other things I tried: lock box, collectible tin (mine was too shallow), plastic Rubbermaid storage container. The thing that fit my cab the best was a plastic tub that had come filled with dog treats. It's held in with a small strip of velcro (and the weight of the washers).

[RayB]

I thought he said BED PAN. Eeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwww

[deadkenndys1105]

I have a tuper ware thing with some small change at the bottom.  I just love that sound.

[gnateye]

i use a tupperware container, and i have to agree there are a few things that make this hobby worth while and hearing that quarter dropping into a bucket of other quarters or tokens just brings you right into that arcade world......

that and that mellow red glow that the inserts make...

[deadkenndys1105]

I have a happ coin door so I have those yellow ones and there not lit and my millipede has one of the light burnt out.

[RayB]

You know what brings me back to the "old days"? Hearing the quarter slide through the mech and then NOTHING. No credit, no returned quarter!!!  ARRGH!! Angry memories!

[MaximRecoil]

I have an empty iced tea mix can in my Ikari Warriors. The stock coin bucket was missing, and I had a couple empty iced tea mix cans, so that's what I used. Oddly enough, it sounds better than the original steel bucket in my Super Punch-Out!! machine (which is a heavier steel that doesn't resonate much), and way better than the original plastic bucket in my SFII (Dynamo) machine. Those iced tea mix cans are heavy cardboard with a thin metal bottom, and they resonate loudly when a quarter hits the bottom. I think Crisco cans are made the same way, and no doubt, cans from many other products.

I used two of them, the one I put in first is just a space filler, so the second one, the one that the quarters drop into, can't slide back.

[Huskerfan]

You know what brings me back to the "old days"? Hearing the quarter slide through the mech and then NOTHING. No credit, no returned quarter!!!  ARRGH!! Angry memories!

Yes, but the good news is that we now have the keys to the machine and can do something about it

I'm pretty sure I banged on a lot of machines back in the day if I lost a quarter.  Can't imagine bangin' on it now that I made it with my own hands!

[Extreme8]

My over/under door came with the stock coin box.
Nothing sounds as original as the original

[Crowquill]

My over/under door came with the stock coin box.
Nothing sounds as original as the original

Except Metal 

I'm not fond of the plastic coin bucket in my JAMMA cab. It SOUNDS like you're just dropping money into a Tupperware container.