Last update 22 Jan. 2010
Nederlandse versie
Last update 22 Jan. 2010
Nederlandse versie
This site is totally renewed and moved to,
click on the link to go to the new website
Here are a few pictures from parts for Bally Bingos to replace the original parts,
which mostly are in very poor condition and for me a challenge to reproduce.
Lockbar for the Bounty
Detail from the Bounty lockbar
Shields for different Bally Bingo's
CoinPlates
American coinplate
Lockbar plate for the Bikini/Lido
Detail Bikini/Lido lockbar plate
Detail Bikini/Lido lockbar with coinplate
Lockbar plate for the Golden Gate or Silver Sails
Detail Golden Gate/Silver Sails lockbar plate
Tryout for making new buttons ( letter or figure will later be engraved)
New prototype button chromium plating
New made letter E For the Miss America's
First complete test E-button
Complete set for a Miss America
The buttons for the Big Wheel or the Magic Ring
The "most wanted" Left and Right buttons
Plate for the "oldies" with the round buttons
plate for a Gay Time
The reason why it all started...
Before After
New buttons real chrome plated
After making buttons and plates we (Bingobeast & me) starting/trying to make
back glasses that looks like original.
Here you see the full color transparant put on the 5mm glass
Putting the print in the right position on the glass
see if there are no air bubbles left between the print and glass
The final result after putting a special white translucent and black mask,
the lights look great in the new back glass.
We also did some testing making the mirror-edges on the back glass
The result wasn't bad but we are looking further because we like perfection
on this.
Here you see the latest technique of printing directly on glass with solvent inks
with 1440 Dpi
The "birth" of a new back glass
waiting for the result
checking for errors in the print
checking of the print for banning
result after putting on the white and black mask
the backside with the black mask from plotter cut black foil
Final result in a cabinet.
Small but important detail for the lockbar,
a new made Nail & collar
Small production run
Try out in different color
Another "master piece" made.....
if you look at the Bikini back-glasses you see the difference between 2 printers, both printed the same file
We did another test on 6mm. glass instead of 5mm glass to get even More "depth" in the backglass.
we are goin for "gold" , the shooterplate
Before I start my new project with the restoration of the noisy Bingo-motors I just finished a new load of
spare parts.
The things above I make for my hobby because
I like the Bally Bingos......
Picture off my own collection
The new Line up after some changes
test for my new website.... click on the picture to zoom
One latest finding,
A Miss Universe "brand new" which was never been used. look at the incredible low counters.
The Bingo is from the inside and also the playfield "factory new"
Sometimes
you must be lucky.
Recently
we found a Bally Miss Universe.
Not a 20
holer, neither a 25 holer, but a bingo with 18 numbered holes.
In fact
we had never played such a machine
before and of what we had read about the Miss Universe, we could
not made up our mind and make a decision to make room for her.
The outside the Miss Universe looks still very well, but the surprise came by opening the backdoor. An entirely new inside, without a track of grease or nicotine attack.
The playfield was brand-new, and the played balls did not leave a mark on it. But when we opened the frontdoor, we really had been astonished. The meters of the played games
and
pay-out were still fitted. Probably the Miss Universe has never been in
exploitation because only 743 coins were token and only 27 credits had been paid
out.
Nevertheless we noticed that the previous owner had had some problems. Problems he did not solve as they were still in the machine. The Tiltrelay in the Tripbank had been burned
and a diode fitted to the special diode-plate had been broken. This resulted in a strange humming in a relay because the feed of that relay appeared to be only 37 Volt. And although
remarkable
little was played on, the reset motor of the tripbank was rather stuck. But
really this type of problems could be solved in less than no time and
after that we played the Miss Universe.
And how
does such a Universal Lady play in fact?
Well then there are only 18 numbered holes and you get just three balls to play, whereas there is no possibility for buying an extra ball. Starting the game get you however a couple of numbers
free and by means of extra buying you will get more numbers, so that you can nevertheless score with three balls a five in line. Additionally, a mystery number (red or yellow) can be ratified,
and in this way you still have an extra number. However scoring does not appear simple. We started with about 400 credits on the register and experience learned that at an average usage
of
approximately 30 credits, we could play for several hours, and still had some
credits on the register.
Obviously
the Miss Universe from Bally was something new. We can’t answer the question
if we shall make some room for the Miss Universe yet, but anyway
it is something very differently than usual.
Look for
the functioning of the Miss Universe also once on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l33K5a9RoN0&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfonJQFEJ4g&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BXiv1Azmrw&feature=channel
thanks to Franz for the nice story.
info/email: ballybingo@live.nl
Website from BingoBeast (frans) with lots of nice pictures http://www.fpilger.cvoo.nl
