Fruit Machine Chat

My HotStuff has started to reject more and more coins.

It started being picky with 20ps and now 30% of £1 coins are rejected too.. If I keep putting them in, almost all will eventually work, but its starting to annoy me.

I have followed some instructions and 'cleaned' the coin mech by pulling out the 'flap' on the side and wiping with some antistatic cleaner.. But there wasn't much to clean and whilst a little bit of dirt appeared on the cloth (but not much), its made no difference.. The coin mechanism in quesiton is a "Cashflow 126DFx".. Does anyone have any tips as to how to solve this?

Jon

Why, don't you phone your supplier and tell them about your problem, if the machine is under warrenty, they should send you a new one.

Or you could do a coin test...

I bought it privately, so there is no warantee..

I can live with the problem, I just figured that someone here might be able to help.

Whats a "coin test"?

Jon

Give it another clean. I do it once a week as mine get used so much.

Your machine is probably taking more coins than if it was sited somewhere, you know someone puts a few in, someone else does. You are probably putting £100s through in quick sucsession and the muck build up happens quicker.

I just used a ringed out damp cloth and gave it a good scrub and before it was taking 1 in every 10, it now takes 8 in every 10.

My worry about cleaning it is that there is a small ribon connector on the 'flap' which i am opening and I am convinced that its going to break.

Do you normally take the coin mech out to clean it, or do you do it in situ?

Jon

I just leave it where it is. Turn the machine off, pull the flap back and clean everywhere behind it.

I have given it another clean and it does seem better.. But it still seems to have a problem with 20ps.

But it does seem to be a lot better.. Is there anything that can be done about the 'sensitivity' of specific coins?

Thanks for your help


Jon

Mine has always been just £1s, take everything else 1st 99% of the time.

Your coin mech could just be on the way out? How many £1s does it take out of 10? 20ps out of 10, all coins out of 10.

Hot Stuff must been 2001 or 2002?

power of and gently clean the mech

with foam or a slight damp cloth

if no joy have the mech reprogrammmed or cgeap change the mech with the same model