Bingo Pinballs

Created on 04-16-2014

_ Bally Lotta-Fun History and Modifications _

_ Keith Rocks _

Keith Nickalo

To Me

Jan 30, 2012

Hi Danny

……some chit-chat _ erased……

Anyway, I've been pickling around with a bunch of Lotta Fun machines here lately. I had to add a button tonight to one of them and that made me think about a page you posted....

http://danny.cdyn.com/altered101c.htm

I had to add that button to this game myself. What's the button for????? These games have no way to count the number of balls shot. There are no trough switches. The timer starts stepping up as soon as the first ball is shot. The timer has 93 steps in it. No that's by my count and may be wrong but it's probably pretty close. So when you play a game of Lotta Fun, you put your coin in, shoot the first ball and then timer starts stepping up. One step every rotation of the control unit which is probably spinning around 20 RPMs. Takes quite a while to step all the way up. Meanwhile the search relays are all clicking when they hit a "hot" rivet. However, since there is no ball counting going on and no button to hit that would normally send the search disk searching and reset the timer, you had to play the whole game before the timer times out. Once it's out of time, game over. If you hit five in a line afterwards....Sorry Charlie....No soup for you.

So in order to limit this, the operators (and it would seem as though most of them have done this) simply drilled a hole through the gear on the timer and put a bolt through the hole so that when it reset, it would only fall back five or six steps and not go the whole way back around. It times out out almost immediately. That button on the front of the cabinet is a timer reset button. Once pushed, the search disks start searching and wins can be detected. That button is almost like the "R" button. It finds the wins, adds them up, shuts the timer back off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWOXIxnzjIw

These Lotta Funs have been modified and modified. It's a real testament to how popular they must have been. That and how much money they were making somebody....Hell something had to motivate them to do make all those mods. The one I'm working on now has relays addes to cut the feed to the slip ring wipers when the control unit isn't spinning. I guess that way if a wiper is "parked" over a rivet that is hot, it will never overheat and burn the coil. Did you look at my submission for worlds most modified bingo?

https://sites.google.com/site/modifiedlottafun/

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