OK, a couple of questions, actually.
I've never messed with coin mechs before tonight but my left coin mech has been acting up on my Spy Hunter for a while. Sometimes it records the quarter drop, sometimes not. Right coin mech always works perfectly.
Anyway, I have exactly one plastic Happ new coin mech that I've never bothered to put in so tonight I stared at the coin mechs until I figured out how to get them out. (Incredibly simple when you figure it out).
So I pop the troublesome left coin mech out and put the Happ in and it goes in smoothly. BUT -- the quarter jams right as it is leaving the metal chute on the coin door and going into the Happ mech. It *never* did that with the old mech. There were some adjusting screws of some sort on the Happ mech but when I loosened the one at the top or the other ones it didn't seem to make any difference.
I popped the old mech back in and the quarter drops smoothly through it.
Question 1 -- what's going on here? Why would the quarter suddenly jam when I swapped in the Happ mech? It looked like it was in correctly and if I pulled the Happ mech out and dropped a quarter into it, it went through smoothly.
OK, so I get annoyed and put the old mech back in and notice that it may not actually be the mech at all that's screwing up as the trigger mechanism that registers the coin drop seems to be attached to the coin door itself rather than the mech. So I push on the metal bracket with the trigger mechanism and bend it in until the coin jams there, then bend it back out again and now the coin drops seem to be registering 100% of the time.
Question 2 -- I guess the metal bracket for the trigger mechanism sometimes just gets bent and doesn't properly register the coin drop anymore? Does this make sense? It wasn't the coin mech after all? Thoughts?
Thanks!
I've never messed with coin mechs before tonight but my left coin mech has been acting up on my Spy Hunter for a while. Sometimes it records the quarter drop, sometimes not. Right coin mech always works perfectly.
Anyway, I have exactly one plastic Happ new coin mech that I've never bothered to put in so tonight I stared at the coin mechs until I figured out how to get them out. (Incredibly simple when you figure it out).
So I pop the troublesome left coin mech out and put the Happ in and it goes in smoothly. BUT -- the quarter jams right as it is leaving the metal chute on the coin door and going into the Happ mech. It *never* did that with the old mech. There were some adjusting screws of some sort on the Happ mech but when I loosened the one at the top or the other ones it didn't seem to make any difference.
I popped the old mech back in and the quarter drops smoothly through it.
Question 1 -- what's going on here? Why would the quarter suddenly jam when I swapped in the Happ mech? It looked like it was in correctly and if I pulled the Happ mech out and dropped a quarter into it, it went through smoothly.
OK, so I get annoyed and put the old mech back in and notice that it may not actually be the mech at all that's screwing up as the trigger mechanism that registers the coin drop seems to be attached to the coin door itself rather than the mech. So I push on the metal bracket with the trigger mechanism and bend it in until the coin jams there, then bend it back out again and now the coin drops seem to be registering 100% of the time.
Question 2 -- I guess the metal bracket for the trigger mechanism sometimes just gets bent and doesn't properly register the coin drop anymore? Does this make sense? It wasn't the coin mech after all? Thoughts?
Thanks!

