You don’t want to unscrew the wrong screws here and have the clock come apart. Please note that these screws are located directly on the base plate. Removal of the clock is accomplished by removing four screws that secure it to the base plate. If the operating fork is the spine, the clock assembly is the heart.
Now, we move on to the clock assembly itself.Įarlier we referred to the main operating fork as the “spine” of the slot machine mechanism. More such springs are on the way, so we need to be sure that we have a box or jar in which to store all the stray springs. The extension spring must also be removed at this time because it attaches to two ears and isn’t locked into a hole, so if we don’t remove it now we might lose it. It’s secured by a cotter pin and an attached extension screw. The reel timing lever is the part responsible for slowly allowing each reel stop lever to come in contact with its related star wheel, stopping the reels in a 1-2-3 order as the clock unwinds. Next we’re going after the reel timing lever itself. The lever is held on with two cotter pins, so no big deal to get it off the mech.
The next part we’re going to remove is a small linkage lever that runs between the clock and the reel stop timing lever.
