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severdhed:

most mechanical mechs have small adjustment screws that you can move to make it reject coins based on size.  the  mechs on my Donkey kong cabinet have a little bar that slides up and down.  this bar has a groove in it for the top of the coin to roll along.  if the coin is too tall, it will not enter the chute properly.  if it is too small, it falls out of the chute into the reject area.

you should be able to get it to work, but it would be hard to say how without seeing the coin mechs

Hoopz:

Check out this thread:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=22251.0

You may find helpful info there.

syph007:


--- Quote from: versapak on October 11, 2009, 01:18:19 pm ---
--- Quote from: syph007 on October 11, 2009, 11:49:38 am ---In the one I have there are magnets to insert if you dont want to accept quarters, its a happ one.  The magnet stops anything that a magnet will attract from being accepted.  I took mine out though since I wanted tokens and quarters to work.

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Quarters aren't magnetic though, so how would inserting magnets stop it from accepting quarters?




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Canadian quarters are most certainly trapped by the magnet, thats why I removed it.  

Happ sells token only mechs, but I don't know anything about them.
http://www.happcontrols.com/coindoors/42303900.htm

versapak:


--- Quote from: syph007 on October 12, 2009, 03:43:50 pm ---
--- Quote from: versapak on October 11, 2009, 01:18:19 pm ---
--- Quote from: syph007 on October 11, 2009, 11:49:38 am ---In the one I have there are magnets to insert if you dont want to accept quarters, its a happ one.  The magnet stops anything that a magnet will attract from being accepted.  I took mine out though since I wanted tokens and quarters to work.

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Quarters aren't magnetic though, so how would inserting magnets stop it from accepting quarters?

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Canadian quarters are most certainly trapped by the magnet, thats why I removed it. 

Happ sells token only mechs, but I don't know anything about them.
http://www.happcontrols.com/coindoors/42303900.htm

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And there we have my ignorance of the rest of the world.  :dunno


No US coins are magnetic.







rackoon:

My coin door looks just like the Happs one VERSAPACK linked up but it is black and has red levers. Mine takes a quarter well but it looks like I will need to mod it to accept quarters.

I noticed that the Happs link offered one that took tokens only. So whats the difference betwee that one and mine?  {besides the plastic I will need to file away to make the lever Go back far enough to accept the larger size token} ???

Is it a matter of weight? :dunno

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