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Title: Question for UK members about coin doors
Post by: eggedd2k on June 10, 2005, 06:57:45 am

i've asked about this before but there was much confusion over how a coin door works - US and UK coin doors and mechs apparently work very differently.

so, a question for UK cab builders/owners:

I am currently in the planning stage of building my own mame cab. i want a fully operational dual (two slot) coin door which will register a credit via a microswitch for ANY coin that is inserted. by ANY coin I mean 5p or 10p or 20p or 50p or

Title: Re: Question for UK members about coin doors
Post by: Franco on June 10, 2005, 07:51:36 am

I may be wrong but your best bet will probably to get a dual insert (two player) coin door fram happs and then modify the 25c coin mechs that come with it to accept any coin.

There is a turorial on how to do it here:

http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=19200

Edit:

Your other option (are there any more?) would be to get a coin door and mount electronic coin mechs. This would give you the option to insert 10p, 20p 50p and

Title: Re: Question for UK members about coin doors
Post by: Stu_C on June 10, 2005, 08:25:51 am

eggedd2k,

Where are you buying your coin door from? Seems to be very pricey to have one shipped to the uk. Wondered if you have another source?

Title: Re: Question for UK members about coin doors
Post by: markb on June 10, 2005, 08:50:19 am

I recently bought a two slot one from the company that is currently holding this auction on ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=575&item=6185261263&rd=1

It cost me

Title: Re: Question for UK members about coin doors
Post by: eggedd2k on June 10, 2005, 09:00:38 am

none of the arcades i've rang have any coin doors and there arent any decent looking ones on e-bay at the moment.

i've found a site which has a tutorial on how to make a coin mechanism with a micro-switch.  All I really need to get hold of is the coin door itself and i can do the rest.

any ideas where i might get a cheap coin door on it's own?

Title: Re: Question for UK members about coin doors
Post by: markb on June 10, 2005, 09:15:13 am

Could you post a link to the tutorial on how to make the coin mechanism?

Thanks

Title: Re: Question for UK members about coin doors
Post by: eggedd2k on June 10, 2005, 09:26:58 am

http://www.underthepier.com/01_howtocoinmech.htm

it's pretty basic but i can see it would work if i had a coin door

Title: Re: Question for UK members about coin doors
Post by: markb on June 10, 2005, 10:21:38 am

Excellent little tutorial, I have a double coin door that is missing a mech so i will give that a shot.

Eggedd, what sort of door are you after? can you post a picture of the type you would like.

Title: Re: Question for UK members about coin doors
Post by: eggedd2k on June 10, 2005, 11:10:44 am

yeah i was dead pleased when i came across that tutorial - i'll post it in the main forum as it's own thread.

i've managed to get a coin door locally. cost me

Title: Re: Question for UK members about coin doors
Post by: eggedd2k on June 10, 2005, 11:15:23 am

by the way the door i just picked up looks the same as this one:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=575&item=6185261263&rd=1

Title: Re: Question for UK members about coin doors
Post by: markb on June 10, 2005, 11:52:25 am

Shouldn't be more than