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Title: What do you use for a cash box?
Post by: mcseforsale on June 04, 2012, 09:50:18 am
I was just wondering what you guys are using for your cash box?  My over/under came without the cash box, so I'm looking for other alternatives.

Anyone make one?

Anyone re-purpose something else (like tupperware)?

Old shoebox?

Spitoon?

AJ
Title: Re: What do you use for a cash box?
Post by: HaRuMaN on June 04, 2012, 10:30:16 am
Tupperware with a layer of quarter's already on the bottom, so you get that satisfying 'clink!'.
Title: Re: What do you use for a cash box?
Post by: ark_ader on June 04, 2012, 12:37:50 pm
Piggy bank.
Title: Re: What do you use for a cash box?
Post by: Drnick on June 04, 2012, 12:41:37 pm
A Metal Roses Chocolate tin :)
Title: Re: What do you use for a cash box?
Post by: stan2323 on June 04, 2012, 08:45:42 pm
Quote from: HaRuMaN on June 04, 2012, 10:30:16 am
Tupperware with a layer of quarter's already on the bottom, so you get that satisfying 'clink!'.

I use tupperware it is the only thing I have low enough for the pinball machine.  I will eventualy make a custom box but that is low on the priority list.

Stan
Title: Re: What do you use for a cash box?
Post by: boomstick on June 29, 2012, 04:34:12 pm
It's a tupperware tub for me too.  Havent got round to the cabinet build yet, but knocked up a quick CP and underdesk box for a couple of coin mechs
Title: Re: What do you use for a cash box?
Post by: paigeoliver on June 29, 2012, 06:25:32 pm
Bob Roberts sells the cash boxes for over/under doors for $6. Picked up one from him recently.
Title: Re: What do you use for a cash box?
Post by: lilshawn on June 29, 2012, 09:17:51 pm
the plastic tub that's supposed to go in there?

i dunno, we made one out of cardboard and tuck tape one time when the used megatouch we got didn't have it's coinbox.
Title: Re: What do you use for a cash box?
Post by: RyoriNoTetsujin on June 30, 2012, 12:31:32 pm
When I had a coin door installed, I used a small metal loaf pan. Like $1 at a Salvation Army, I think?
Title: Re: What do you use for a cash box?
Post by: mcseforsale on June 30, 2012, 02:49:51 pm
Yep. That's what I ended up with. Loaf pan from dollar general. 1 buck and it is the exact dimensions as a happ except the height. I'm going to glue down some post 86 pennies on the bottom for a better "thunk".

AJ
Title: Re: What do you use for a cash box?
Post by: Malenko on June 30, 2012, 10:00:39 pm
the dynamo I bought had a laundry detergent bottle cut in half.  I replaced it with a normal coin door tub
Title: Re: What do you use for a cash box?
Post by: compute on July 01, 2012, 07:14:50 am
I believe the PONG prototype originally used a loaf pan, so you may be onto something.

Boomstick, I love your coin box assembly.  No mechs to worry about :D
Title: Re: What do you use for a cash box?
Post by: RyoriNoTetsujin on July 02, 2012, 09:21:58 am
Quote from: compute on July 01, 2012, 07:14:50 am
I believe the PONG prototype originally used a loaf pan, so you may be onto something.

That's because... I put it there...

/me closes the door of the TARDIS and disappears.

Muhuhuhuhahahahahaha...  :laugh2:
Title: Re: What do you use for a cash box?
Post by: eds1275 on July 02, 2012, 12:39:05 pm
What I have done is purchased a 8" cake/loaf pan and drilled a hole in it near the top. I swapped out the bottom bolt on my coin door for a longer one that goes through both the coin door and the cake pan, holding it in place. Since it isn't touching the ground it has a nice ring to it even with the first coin dropped. And as it fills up it totally has "that sound"

(http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/199657_10150420659655246_895055245_17580653_6043574_n.jpg)
Title: Re: What do you use for a cash box?
Post by: lilshawn on July 02, 2012, 07:44:56 pm
Quote from: eds1275 on July 02, 2012, 12:39:05 pm
What I have done is purchased a 8" cake/loaf pan and drilled a hole in it near the top. I swapped out the bottom bolt on my coin door for a longer one that goes through both the coin door and the cake pan, holding it in place. Since it isn't touching the ground it has a nice ring to it even with the first coin dropped. And as it fills up it totally has "that sound"

(http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/199657_10150420659655246_895055245_17580653_6043574_n.jpg)


dafuq?! you take this pic through a hole drilled in the control panel?!? awesome!
Title: Re: What do you use for a cash box?
Post by: eds1275 on July 03, 2012, 10:36:51 am
lol yeah I had a coin door and cash box before I had the money for buttons.
Title: Re: What do you use for a cash box?
Post by: mcseforsale on July 03, 2012, 12:44:12 pm
Too funny.  I had a coin door for about 4 years before I started the cab.   :laugh2: :laugh2:

Collectors...all.

AJ