Also, the large shaft could be not turning enough to allow the reels to be kicked around. The broken pin may allow some turning of the shaft which allows 1 or 2 of the reels to spin.

The pins are in the back lower left and right corner of the reel mechanism (facing the machine). If one or more reels don’t spin it could also be the pin sheered off in the large shaft that goes across the back bottom of the reel mechanism. If all reels don’t spin at all, the pin in the clock could be sheered off. Now the 3 reels will stop 1, 2, 3 in that order.Ĭlock or clock gear – replace. Next turn the variator (the circular black wheel) with your fingers until the bar is short. Remove this latch and its spring by bending the smallest tab on the latch and pushing it off completely. This bar has a variator on it that is ratcheted around by a latch. Leave the third reel bar alone in the 4th hole. The 2nd reel bar is normally at the third hole. The 1st reel bar is normally at the second hole. Another solution is to use different holes in the 8″ bars. Sometimes the 1st reel has a bar with one hole that one will often work better than the 3 hole version.

Sometimes by replacing the 1st bar it will vary the spin and not cause another lever in the linkage to fall off’ or move too soon before the 1st reel has had time to spin. Each hole is used for the timing of the spin of each reel. File the rough spot off.Īlso check the reel is not catching on anything that would stop it from turning normally, if the reel dec spins normally when taken out of the machine this could be rogue wires from the door bulb units.įirst reel doesn’t spin – just goes ‘clunk’.Īt the bottom of the reel mechanism there are 3 long thin about 8″ bars with 4 holes in the end. Over time they cause flat spots on the disc which catch on the reel stop levers so they can’t get back out of their slots. When the reel stop levers enter the reel discs they go bang.

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