Bingo
Pinballs
Created
on 05-02-2014
It’s amazing just
how handy and useful old machines can be: Storing you Porn collection –
Rewinding your Bingo solenoids – etc.
Winders
11-22-2011, 04:05 AM #1
Senior Member 
Join Date
May 2006
Location
Viva Osh Vegas
Real Unrestored 1950's Vintage Geo. Stevens Winder Porn Inside!
Look what I found - the photos of my Geo. Stevens winder
when I bought it!
There are actually two winders in these photos - the small one in the back of
the lower photo with the big dial counter is a model 20, and originally I was
going to CNC that one. This one is one of the very earliest Stevens winders.
The big one on the board is the one I'm restoring right now. This is a Model
120 electrically driven gang winder set up for winding four coils at once. I am
now rebuilding this one to wind four humbucker coils
at a time too. Originally this winder was owned by a man in Ohio? who owned Bally Bingo (gambling pinball) machines in the
early 1950's, and the winder was used to rebuild the game's solenoids. The
owner must have had a lot of machines to justify buying his own coil winder!
You can see the original arbor with four solenoid coils still mounted on it in
the photos.
Click on the photos to expand these to full size
The
Model 120 as found also has the Model 20's original horizontal tensioner
mounted on it to wind one coil. The 120's original four tensioners are in the
top of the first photo mounted on the rod and brackets - but they are upside
down. Here are closeup photos of the tensioner in the
right orientation. These are superfine wire tensioners for up to 44 gauge wire
- weird usage on a winder originally set up for 22 gauge coil wire!
I
am restoring the original motor and speed reducing gearbox right now, next I
will build a new electrical control panel (the box on the forklift fork at left
in the second photo). I think I'm only missing a set of gears, a cam, the gearcase cover, and the 'left hand' cam follower and
spring.
Ken
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