I got a pile of 10¥ coins from a coin dealer in Vancouver, where they are plentiful thanks to the proximity to Japan. Washing them with one of these dishwasher baby-bottle holders
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| I prefer to take off the grime |
There was a slight "click" that could be felt on the handle and I found that was the stop nail on the inside being a bit too bent inwards. I think it being used as a the Stop for the knob means it will slowly move over time. I used needle nose plyers to bend it back ever so slightly.
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| that nail should stop the metal on the bottom right, but should not rub the metal nub currently just above it |
I have found a lot of 30mm tokens on ebay and I was quite happy to start getting payouts!
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| cool tokens! |
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| my first paid-out win! |
...but after a while, I encountered a problem: the coins were jamming inside the feeder tube!
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| at first I figured this happened when I moved the machine while rearranging my shelves |
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| JAMMED!! |
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| after opening up the back track and clearing out the jam? It happened again. Time to give up on these tokens. |
I found an advertisement for this machine in Game Machine
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| Game Machine (ゲームマシン) magazine1977-04-01 |
This advertisement is a bit ominous as it turns out that it was Homerun King and Circus that both appeared as New Old Stock in Japan! Too bad there also isn't a stash of other similar machines, as there is at least one more 10¥ I'd love to get my hands on.
One thing to note here is that it says the prize tokens are supposed to be 2.2 mm thick!
The 30mm tokens I purchased measure at 1.65mm, and that's why they are getting stuck. So now I need to find more appropriate-sized tokens somewhere.
My hope is that the size works out so that I can alternate, thicker token, thinner token, thicker token, etc, and not get coin jams. Worst case scenario, I'll get rid of the thinner tokens.
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