Sports Bus Claw Machine

Sirsalt

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I picked up a Sports Bus Claw Machine for free. The PCB has been removed. Searched around, and couldn't find one for sale. I was also little paranoid, that even if I did find one, the crane rig may be bad, too, resulting in the project turning into money pit.

So I bought the 28" complete claw kit from Holland Computers for $371 after Black Friday coupon discount. That should get me a 100% working machine.

The question I have, is if I can put a bigger claw on the Holland Computer rig. It comes with what i think is a 7" claw. Are claws universal? I've been in the classic arcade scene for years, but prize/redemption is new to me, so I have no clue of the ins and outs of this hardware. I can easily get away with the medium claw in that machine, but I'd rather have a bigger one if possible, so I can go with bigger prizes. I already have a medium clean sweep, so the bigger claw would be ideal.

I just added redemption to my arcade, and have about 30 prize redemption machines to fix and tweak. I'm sure when I'm done, I'll have a good grasp on these machines, but right now, I have about 1000 questions...
 
I picked up a Sports Bus Claw Machine for free. The PCB has been removed. Searched around, and couldn't find one for sale. I was also little paranoid, that even if I did find one, the crane rig may be bad, too, resulting in the project turning into money pit.

So I bought the 28" complete claw kit from Holland Computers for $371 after Black Friday coupon discount. That should get me a 100% working machine.

The question I have, is if I can put a bigger claw on the Holland Computer rig. It comes with what i think is a 7" claw. Are claws universal? I've been in the classic arcade scene for years, but prize/redemption is new to me, so I have no clue of the ins and outs of this hardware. I can easily get away with the medium claw in that machine, but I'd rather have a bigger one if possible, so I can go with bigger prizes. I already have a medium clean sweep, so the bigger claw would be ideal.

I just added redemption to my arcade, and have about 30 prize redemption machines to fix and tweak. I'm sure when I'm done, I'll have a good grasp on these machines, but right now, I have about 1000 questions...

I was thinking about getting one of those kits for a machine i have too, waiting to see how
far you get with yours , please post pics of the swap.
 
I'll be working on this this week. I'll post an update when done.
 
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