European 1186 hopper guidance

[Thephoneman]

Been helping a guy in Australia get his machine running and after looking over the pictures there is something amiss with the hopper.  First it looks like it's missing the carraige assembly and then it appears that the paydisc isn't right.  Looked in the usual pages and haven't found much info on this. Trying to help this guy out.

[wolftalk]

pics are too low-res to see much ... especially the payout counter disc.

the outboard carriage isn't needed if the main wipers/traces can handle all the payouts the game has (not counting ones that the game locks up and doesn't pay any coins for).

 

[Thephoneman]

I get that part about not hitting the high pays,  but what about the zero stop? I'll email you the pics I have wolftalk.

[wolftalk]

I get that part about not hitting the high pays,  but what about the zero stop? I'll email you the pics I have wolftalk.

good point!

on the machines with low payouts they could use a payout counter with a reset stop as part of the white plastic ratchet (like the other stepper units like the odds/line units) ... but those types of machines didn't have a spiral cam (update ... but the 1186 apparently does.  Maybe an easy way to connect two wiper arms to the ratchet shaft without going back to an older style wiper assembly).

any machine that needs the wipers to rotate more than 355ish degrees needs the zero stop on the outboard carriage.

[Thephoneman]

Thank you for that explanation.  Makes total sense.