Bingo Pinballs

Created on 04-25-2014

_ Ray asks a great question: Who made the modules for the Bingos _ I am expecting a call from Gary Marshall, so I’ll make sure I squeeze this question in! _

From: Danny Leach

Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 5:04 PM

To: Ray Watts

Subject: Re: Just Wondering...

Hi Raymond,

Yes & No.........Laugh,

I've wondered that myself, it's my guess that on the new (2nd generation games) that they did buy the parts from the same manufacturer.

At some point United changed the way they made their games.  They went from an older style electronics (I think Jeff refers to this as the "Bowler" style) to doing almost exactly what Bally was doing.  When they made the change, the guts of the new games look identical to the Bally's

I'm not sure when the change was made.  I do know Circus is old and Stardust is new.  I really like the old style of electronics.  I think it is just way cool how they layed everything out - Might even be easier to understand and work on too _ At least they are for me.  

On a related side note...Bingo Joe tells me that when United copied the Bally style they decided to include another clutch disk on the opposite side of the indexing gear for the search wipers.  According to him (and he's an expert) it would be best to disable that extra clutch assembly.  Apparently you run into big trouble if the one clutch sticks and the other one doesn't.  The one end is being driven and the other end is being held.  Massive failure.  Joe said everything can get twisted around and make for one hell of a repair. 

I'll look and see if I still have his eMail on this.

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From: Ray Watts <raymond.watts@>
To: Danny Leach <bingopinballs@>
Sent: Mon, December 27, 2010 4:38:40 PM
Subject: Just Wondering...

Bally and United bingos looked quite alike inside with trip banks and stepper switches.

Do you know if these companies made their own steppers and relays or if they were

contracted out to specialty companies that made these items to specification?

The replay meter, for example, looks very much the same from the one-balls to the bingos to the

flasher free play machines of the late 50s and 60s.

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