Coin Door Help - AKA - I'm dumb

[iamnaeth]

I'm having a little trouble figuring out how this coin door mechanism A) fits in the coin door and B) can send a trigger saying a coin passed through.  I order a Happs over/under coin door from ebay and since I didn't read the listing thoroughly enough, it came without coin mechs.  I ordered some mechs from someone on this forum and I seem to be too dumb to figure it out....either that or I have the wrong mech.  So without further ado (adieu?):

Picture 1:  The coin door without any mech in it....you may notice the return bin is missing from one of the sides....that's be cause I took it it out in effort to fit the mech in.

Picture 2:  A blurry picture (sorry) of my mech.

Picture 3:  The coin door with the mech in place on the side without the return bin.  Like I said before, it was the only way I could get it to fit.

Picture 4:  This is a side view trying to show that the return bin is in the way.  What you're seeing is the return bin on the other side of the mech in place.

Picture 5: Just another picture.


So....what am I doing wrong? Do I need to order new mechs?  If so, what should I order to be able to handle all change (I wanna use it like a piggy box) and tokens (ordered some BYOAC tokens).

Thanks!

Nathan

[RayB]

See in your last picture, on the right, the "arc" shaped cut out hole? There should be a wire and microswitch mounted on the other side of that. Coin falls out of the mech and hits the switch wire on its way down to th ecoin box.

[iamnaeth]

Ahh, that makes sense about the microswitch.  Any clues why it won't fit?  Is that the wrong type of mech?

[asmida]

I can't tell for certain, but It almost looks like those mechs will fit.  The plastic should go under the spots for the connecting screws.

Line up the arrows in my drawing.

[asmida]

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=19200

As far as All-in one mechs- check out the above thread.

[iamnaeth]

That's where I thought that it should go however, the mech is completely flush with the door.  It can't get under those screws.  Is the mech just too wide?

[SirPeale]

Just flex the bracket a bit.  It'll fit.

[Disturbed013]

Been following this with curiosity.

Any update?  Did you figure it out?  If you want I can post some pics of one of my doors.  Also, might be a good idea to post the measurements of those mechs just to make sure.  It does appear that they should fit, but maybe something is off a bit.  Do you happen to know which happs door it is?

The other thread has really good info to mod them to accept all coins, just a matter of getting them to fit.

[iamnaeth]

I'll let you know this evening.  I'm heading over to my dad's workshop to continue work on the arcade today.  I'll have to look into flexing the brackets but I still don't think there is enough room.  If I recall, they'd need to bend ~1/8" which seems like a lot to me.  I'll measure the mech to see if it the typical width.  As for moding it to accept all coins, that was already done when I bought them.  Coins just slide right through, I need to make sure the microswitch will trigger though.