HIRES Ideal 55 Slider Extra holes and Liner Opinions?

[Slider-Bob]

Thanks Slider-Bob. The screw spacing looks about the same. Would you measure that spacing for me? My mech don't have a lever coming out of it. The machine had original paint and there's no color difference there so I wonder if it was just pre drilled and inserted but never added. Have you had sliders with the inserts installed with out boxes?

Johnny...I have the 2 mechs off the machine in 2 different cardboard boxes.  I can measure the hole distance center to center (side to side, and top to bottom) for the 4 holes.
I would suspect the 2 original mechs are long gone on your machine (now they are on mine...haha), and yours got replaced with a single 10 cent mech.  Never seen a slider with extra holes threaded like yours, except mine.

Glen...I have a faygo 81 transitional where the deposit sticker was 2 cents on it. Was there ever a deposit on bottles of 1 cent? Not sure this was so much as a 20% revenue increase for this work (from 5 cents to 6 cents), but rather for the bottle deposit. Hmmm?  

[johnnyselman]

 Bob ,looking at the design of the secondary unit I would think that it could give anywhere between 1-4 cents back depending on how many chutes was loaded with pennies. That would cover deposits as they went up  for many years.

[johnnyselman]

 A little progress today!

[Slider-Bob]

Here are the measurements.  Around 4 3/4 inches top to bottom, and 4 1/4 inches side to side (tape looks like 4 1/2 but really closer to 4 1/4)

You can see the latch cutouts in the box in the 3rd pic.

[johnnyselman]

That's probably it. My holes are exactly 4 7/16"  across and 4 13/16 top to bottom center to center. Probably just sloppy drilling.

[MoonDawg]

My guess is the front mech used to be a nickel rejector, and seller wanted to raise it to 6 cents, so he installed the back mech, and replaced the nickel rejector in the front with a dime rejector.  

   
         All this modification for a penny?   Kids today wouldn't believe this.

[Slapshot42]

A little progress today!

What was you method for removing the "Slider-Bob" belt buckle guard?  The front stainless piece?

[coke_and_stuff]

That Penny box on a Slider is wild! I have not seen that one before!

[brasskey]

What was you method for removing the "Slider-Bob" belt buckle guard?  The front stainless piece?

I was wondering the same. I always thought it was too much trouble to remove.

[johnnyselman]

What was you method for removing the "Slider-Bob" belt buckle guard?  The front stainless piece?

Drilled the spot welds on the upper inside where the rubber goes and used a cutoff wheel on the sides and lower edge. Left  the side and lower peices that is sandwiched between the sheetmedal to hold the correct spaceing. Im now massaging Fun-tronics piece to fit flush in its place.I will add some pics when photobucket acts right.there is a pic in the ablum that shows in nearly in place.