Fruit Machine Chat

I haven't tried to do this with my phone, but I did it with the iPod, and the resultant software I could was frankly underwhelming. You open up a whole world of badly sorted apps and features when you jail break. Many of the "good" things I put on the iPod crashed it all the time, so in th...

Just so you are aware, if you plan on changing the stake on your machine a lot and want multiple keys and are thinking of making some up. You are probably better buying the DIP switch keys off one of the companies that do them, I wanted to stake my machine at 5p/£5 for and 98% payout for everyday (w...

I did a lot of work rewiring some low voltage DC based kit a few years back, basically same as a fruit machine sort of electrics. We didn't have clear wiring diagrams (all black wire installations for security reasons). To test circuits where there were meant to be switched, we used a linking wire w...

I'm an electrical/electronics engineer to trade and when I went to look at the machine, I immediately knew that with all the electromechanical stuff inside, they're not something to live in a cold, damp room. It has pride of place in our bar room. I've given it a deep clean now, coin chutes and mech...

Hi, I'm Steve, based in the South West of Scotland. I am a home machine owner, went for a 90s Barcrest Rio/MPU5 Gold Rush for our bar room because it suited the decor and the kids love a simple machine to lose their pocket money to! So far it has been cleaned to the nth degree, the percentage and st...

Have you got a refill key for it? The procedure to reset the £1 hopper needs a refill key, open the bottom door and switch the refill key, then press the Hopper Dump button in the bottom of the machine, the machine will then drop the balance of the £1 hopper into the cash tray. Once it's dumped, pre...

Hi, Just became the proud owner of my first fruit machine for the house, I had a lot of choice, but went for a "classic" looking machine (OK, the other half did her nut when I picked out a full feature monster, so I've got a casino style) It's a late 90's MPU5 Barcrest Goldrush (Rio), came...