Ideal/Glasco slider coin mech

[hunter]

Are the coin mech for Ideal and Glasco the same?

Thanks
Steve

[johnieG]

They are pretty much interchangeable between the two machines, although the "low-rise" style is more often seen on Glasco sliders, & the taller coinmech units with the flat chrome top ( sometimes called a Frankenstein mech') in more often seen on Ideal sliders.

[David D]

Does anyone know the history on Ideal and Glasco sliders?  Were Ideal and Glasco different companies? It's odd the Ideal 55 and Glasco GBV 50 are so similar.

[loman4ec]

I don't know this as fact but I think it is like the westinghouse and cavalier bow sided coolers. Coke put out a spec and had someone make the cooler. It must have been something along those lines.