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coin door mech holders?
Beretta:
there are'nt as many doors like this on ebay as there are over/unders.
i did ask one seller for a picture (they only posted front) of the back to see what all it had, and they was selling asis.. i asked if they had tried to run any quarters though it even though i under stood it was a as is sell.
i got a rude response about how it was only selling for a few bucks, to give them a break.
needless to say i went from "gonna bid a little" to not bidding at all.
thats just one seller mind you..
anyway the point is if they're universal i dont need to find a perfect match dimensionally for a drop in replacement, i can just pick up the cheapest door i can find.. and it'll probably be a over under.
also just because the frame will fit dont mean the door will be a good replacement.. some doors that look just like this have the mechs' close together..
the vault is on the bottom with tubes running down to it.. which means if the placement of the mech's are like this door is (space apart), then i'd have to cut and move the tubes closer together.
no i did'nt know of any law, is that state or federal?
mvsfan:
from what the guy who sold me the last few cabinets told me, its federal to disable a coin door and by the same token its up to the states as far as liscencing goes.
Ken Layton:
Your pictures are of a Coin Acceptors, Inc (a.k.a. "Coinco") brand coin door. Sad to say but Coin Acceptors bailed out of the amusement business about ten years ago and now only concentrate of coin handling equipment for vending machines.
The supply of brand new and new-old-stock parts are hard to get. The last known supplier is The Great Amusement Emporium in Colorado. Unless you are a game route operator and have $2,000 to make the minimum order, you are out of luck.
The modern coin door that fits your mounting frame dimensions is the Happ Pinball Door from Happ Controls.
As to disabling/removing the coin equipment when the game is sold to a home user, there is no federal or state law requiring that. It all depends on the individual game operator as to what they want to do when they sell a game to a home. Many game operators leave everything complete---they're just happy to sell an unprofitable, old machine. However, there are some game operators out there that are very paranoid about a sold game returning to somebody else's route so they remove the coin equipment or the whole coin door.
Thenasty:
I think I still have this.
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=17518
LMK if interested.
Beretta:
thanks for the info ken, at least now i know exactly what it is now, i thought the happ's pinball looked similar but was'nt sure so it's nice to know.
so does that mean only the coin mech holders from the defunct coinco will fit this door?
from what you said you did'nt specifically say it but i suspect not possible/feasible to get just any old door off of ebay and swap it's hardware out on the back of the door.
is this true for most coin doors? that the mech holders are proprietary then?