Coin mech for accepting .900 tokens?

[gougeman]

I'm mostly an arcade machine guy, but a few years back I inherited a Cavalier 96 and brought it back to life (with some help from these forums, actually) and have it serving beer in my game room.

I have the old original National Rejectors mechanical mech on a shelf which I mostly rebuilt, but it turned out to be missing a couple parts so I have already given up on keeping the coin mech original. I currently have a CoinCo 3341-S coin mech in it, but I'd really like for it to take the same .900 tokens that my arcade games take.

Any recommendations for a coin mech model that will either natively take these tokens or that through fancy modern technology can be trained to take them? Preferably something I can reasonably expect to find on ebay, of course.

For comparison, a quarter is about a .954, so the tokens I use are slightly smaller than a quarter.

Thanks,
Chris

[Slapshot42]

You may see if you can find token coin rejector that is the same size as the CoinCo mechanism you currently have installed.

I have not a seen in the years a high demand for alternative coin use.  Hopefully someone else smarter than me chimes in and we can get it figured out.

[johnieG]

Mars coinmechs are programmable to accept tokens.

[gougeman]

Thanks.

Like the Mars 6800? Or the 5800 series?  A search found some rumblings about the 6800 series being able to learn about "approximately-quarter-sized" tokens, so that is looking promising.

[collecture]

I have modified rejectors to accept tokens. If the quarter cradle on your slug rejector is metal, you may be able to bend the prongs in a bit to hold the token.

What parts are you missing on the NRI mech? I may have them.

[gougeman]

Hmm., I'll look into that bending idea.

I'll have to dig out the old electro-mechanical NRI unit and check what's missing and its condition again - its been a while since I've looked at it.

I know the jackpot lever has a broken-off nub where it rides on the cam so it doesn't travel up and down to engage the switches as the cam goes around.  Its also missing the 10-25 CREM, which is probably OK because it is also missing the armature that attaches to that CREM.  Other than that it might be ok and if I modify it to accept tokens by bending the thingy, maybe neither of those issues actually matter.

 

[dr galaga]

I use .984 tokens in my gameroom. I have a Coinco  9300 series changer in my Cavalier and I had it relearn a quarter (token). If you do this you will need to use tokens from the same manufacturer. I originally had a mix of tokens, but they all had subtle differences in weight and thickness. The Coinco needs every token to be exactly the same. I was able to secure a large lot of tokens from an arcade the shut down so now everything works great.