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Title: Modifying Happ Mechs for Tokens
Post by: brophog on January 22, 2006, 08:15:59 pm: There was a great site for this at one time, but it appears to be down now.

http://www.miavio.com/HappILMech.htm

Unfortunately, while web archive has the text, it doesn't have the pictures. Anyone have a copy of this tutorial saved?
Title: Re: Modifying Happ Mechs for Tokens
Post by: brophog on January 24, 2006, 03:59:06 pm: Bumping this back to the front page. There are too many of these mechs in service for the answer not to be known.
Title: Re: Modifying Happ Mechs for Tokens
Post by: Marky_1979 on January 31, 2006, 03:02:11 pm: Any update I too want to modify my coin mechs to accept all coins :D
Title: Re: Modifying Happ Mechs for Tokens
Post by: Farmboy90 on January 31, 2006, 03:10:13 pm: I couldn't figure it out with the plastic happ coin mechs. Not sure how it would be possible since plastic doesn't bend.

You might try buying so old metal ones off of eBay. I got mine from TheNasty and they work great. Metal bends. :)
Title: Re: Modifying Happ Mechs for Tokens
Post by: quarterback on January 31, 2006, 03:12:40 pm: Quote from: brophog on January 22, 2006, 08:15:59 pm
There was a great site for this at one time, but it appears to be down now.

http://www.miavio.com/HappILMech.htm

I just emailed the BYOAC member who had originally put that info up on the www and told him about this thread, so hopefully he still has it somewhere and the info will make its way back into our collective reality.
Title: Re: Modifying Happ Mechs for Tokens
Post by: holdennut on January 31, 2006, 08:04:54 pm: I'm after this info also, any help would be appreciated.

Cheers
Title: Re: Modifying Happ Mechs for Tokens
Post by: fatfingers on February 01, 2006, 09:41:06 am: Excuse me, since I probably don't know what I'm talking about. Are you talking about a Happ door with Happ Mechs in them? If so, I have those and I also have a piece of paper with them that discusses how to modify what coins they accept. Are you interested in seeing that text? If so, I could probably take a picture of the paper and send it to you.
Title: Re: Modifying Happ Mechs for Tokens
Post by: GGKoul on February 01, 2006, 10:41:57 am: Here you go. http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=22251.0
Title: Re: Modifying Happ Mechs for Tokens
Post by: mp2526 on February 01, 2006, 11:19:28 am: Hey guys

I've been away from the hobby for awhile because I have been very busy with a new job. Unfortunately, in trying to cut my expenses I moved my site to a cheaper host provider and because the hobby wasn't at the top of my mind, I forgot to grab the page you guys are referencing. However, I my have the original pics somewhere at home on one of my backup drives. I'll look tonight and get back to you guys when and if I find them. Otherwise if anyone has a specific question, I'll try and answer it for them here. Thanks.

Mike
Title: Re: Modifying Happ Mechs for Tokens
Post by: brophog on February 01, 2006, 12:01:05 pm: Thanks! The problem was, the site tutorial was so good that it became the defacto illustration for those mechs.
Title: Re: Modifying Happ Mechs for Tokens
Post by: quarterback on February 01, 2006, 12:22:10 pm: Quote from: mp2526 on February 01, 2006, 11:19:28 am
I my have the original pics somewhere at home on one of my backup drives. I'll look tonight and get back to you guys when and if I find them.

Hey there Mike, thanks for popping in. The text of the page is located at the Internet Archive, so if you can come up with the accompanying pics, that'd be great; somebody could put the two together and we'd be set. I don't know if it will help or not, but the pics seemed to be originally named: ILHapps01.jpg through ILHapps05.jpg

Cheers
Title: Re: Modifying Happ Mechs for Tokens
Post by: holdennut on February 01, 2006, 10:38:58 pm: Hey guys, found a quick fix that should work...

First remove the little black cir-clip holding the "Red L-Shaped Leaver" in place. The lever should now come off. You should now find that the BYOAC tokens work a treat.

I can't verify this as I don't have any BYOAC tokens, but mine now accepts quarters, aussie half penny and 2 francs. All very close to the BYOAC tokens.

Hope this helps

(http://www.handygas.com.au/images/happsil.gif)
Before...

(http://www.handygas.com.au/images/happsil2.gif)
After...
Title: Re: Modifying Happ Mechs for Tokens
Post by: Santoro on February 02, 2006, 06:31:23 pm: MP2526 delivers!----

Here are the instructions for these mechs from the original site. Big thanks to Mike Perry (MP2526) for this - we was cool enough to go and retake the photographs for us!!

Thanks Mike.

Modifying Happ Quarter Mechs for .984" Token Use (http://www.arcadetokens.com/html/happ_plasic_quarter_mechs.htm)
Title: Re: Modifying Happ Mechs for Tokens
Post by: Marky_1979 on February 02, 2006, 08:55:22 pm: If I do this will it allow me to use any size coins? my mech currently accepts 50p's and would like it to accept anything 10's,20s,
Title: Re: Modifying Happ Mechs for Tokens
Post by: Santoro on February 02, 2006, 10:10:01 pm: No, for that you need TheNasty's all-in-One Mech. Search for it here.
Title: Re: Modifying Happ Mechs for Tokens
Post by: mp2526 on February 02, 2006, 11:55:46 pm: Quote from: Santoro on February 02, 2006, 06:31:23 pm

Thanks Mike.

No Problem guys, glad to have been able to help. Hopefully, when my job duties settle down, I can get back into the hobby, I have a storage room full of Kensington hackable mice, Betson trackballs, coin mechs, 1 inch red lighted square buttons and coin mech switches I need to sell. Plus several half finished project machines I need to complete. I just haven't had time to get all the stuff together.

BTW Dave, on your site I noticed when you click on the pics it sends you to my old site. You might want to fix those links so if someone clicks on them they get a larger image to better view the hack. Thanks again for offering to host this page.