Film is cheep, I would highly recommend that anybody invest in a very inexpensive digitial camera. I would like to add that I am taking a photo of every nut and bolt and position they were in. because the wood also has a slight warp, I will sand flat once the glue has set. I was going to do a biscuit + glue job, but have decided that I will only do the glue. Thanks, i’ve already got my fingers dirty, I’ve started the repair of the wood base, it is 3 pieces of solid oak.

I’m going to be tackling this project bit by bit as time permits, and I have no deadlines to meet, so the restoration may take a while. My intention is to do a thorough and fundamentally sound job on the mechanism and an attractive restoration of the exterior. I’m not undertaking this restoration with the expectation of selling the machine, nor am I trying to make every part on the machine look brand new. Resurrecting an old, neglected coin-0p of any variety can be a very fulfilling experience. Hopefully the end result will be an attractive and fully-functional slot machine. I decided that documenting the process would be a good exercise for me and might prove valuable to other collectors contemplating a similar restoration, so I built this blog to serve as my restoration diary. I’ve worked on several slot machines in the past, but this will be my first complete tear-down and ground-up restoration. The price was right, so I bought the machine and brought it home. The machine was not functioning, but appeared to be reasonably complete. A while back I acquired a Mills High Top antique slot machine from a local seller that I found through Craigslist.

Mills 10 cent slot machine