Antique Slots

05/02/2025

Come check our booth out in the flea market section of Pinfestival 2025! Our usual spot in the corner by the loading bay. Its Andrew’s first Pinfest, and Lincoln is here to receive all the pets

08/04/2024

We’re all set up here at Renningers Adamstown Antiques Market! Come say hi to Lincoln (and maybe us too!)

02/19/2024

Wife and I got to check out Pinpoint in Fayetteville AR! Small underground tap house venue, but they’ve got a great selection of games (about 15) that are fully shopped and play very well! Good bang for your buck, $7 in tokens got us several hours of gameplay (it helps being a pinball wizard and winning free games). Definitely have to try playing more of The Shadow, Theater of Magic, and Monopoly.
-Dan

01/12/2024

Happy New Year everyone! Here’s one of my latest projects. I found a Domino trade stimulator locally and while it was in beautiful condition, the air pump in it was completely shot. The original leather cup washer was cracked and brittle, and soaking it in 3 in 1 oil to restore the leather only dissolved it. Oops. I needed a new cup washer.

Made some posts in coin op Facebook groups, and thanks to a suggestion by Tim Claremont, with a $14 sheet of leather from Michael’s and several experiments later, I finally got a working leather cup washer, made by hand.

The first pic is the original leather washer. It basically rotted away.

Leather is surprisingly difficult to cut with a crappy exacto knife. I first tried cutting disks slightly larger than the diameter I needed so I could have some wiggle room to shape with scissors. While they fit the pump housing snugly, they didn’t have a seal. I figured it was because when the plunger pushed down, the edges of the leather pushed up, making it cone shaped and more aerodynamic, breaking the air seal.

In a last ditched effort to make a cup washer, I watched some videos on leather shaping. They all used some kind of mold and a negative to press the leather down, which I don’t have, but I figured I could at least try to fit it to the internal diameter of the pump.

I made a larger leather disk so the extra leather hung over the edge of the cylinder by a few mm, then I soaked it in water for a few hours to soften it. I packed it into the tube, checked on it a few hours later to see if it was still in place, and left it for another 24 hours. When I got home earlier today, it was fully dry and retained its cup shape.

I cut a hole in the center of the gasket, and found a single rivet and washer just wide enough to fit inside the cup so it keeps it shape. I manually fastened the rivet to the washer and cup and then reassembled the shaft.

My Domino finally works! The cup must be working to catch air as it compresses, so molding to the interior of the tube was the trick. Also my dog Lincoln approves of my handiwork 👌

And before anyone asks, no this Domino is not for sale 😎

05/26/2023

Thursday night score !!!

05/05/2023

Lincoln says buy our slot machines! We’ll be here tomorrow, booth 14 at the back right of the Pinfestival flea market!

05/05/2023

Getting ready for this year’s Pinfestival! We’re setting up in the flea market section Booth #14 - come on by for coin op, watches, comics, and other antiques.

02/26/2023

Today’s haul! Great buys!

05/09/2022

Had a blast at this year’s Allentown Pinfest! Great job with the event, and thanks to the many vendors and hobbyists who brought plenty of fun games to play. I set several high scores 😎 and I’m glad I got to try out many home brew pins like Rock Lives and Pincraft (which I immediately identified as a heavily customized Kings of Steel, my first game)

05/04/2022

Hey everyone! Getting ready for Allentown Pinfest, we will be setting up at our usual spot in the Flea Market section (back room)!

We will be buying coins, jewelry, watches, Hotwheels, Matchboxes, and Slot Machines Trade Stimulators and other vintage mechanical coin op.

We do have a few Wacky Package posters left as well. We will also have some antique slot machines and trade stimulators (see some pictured). Looking to possibly bring a Williams Fantastic and lots of other man cave merch.

ARRIVING THERE FOR SET UP ON THURSDAY and ALL DAY FRIDAY

04/04/2022

We finally have proper for sale page support! We put up two listings to start: a Mills Poinsettia and a Jennings Grandstand trade stimulator. Each machine now has its own details page. More to follow, and functionality will soon extend to the Parts page! In the meantime, check out the link below

At Antique Slots, we buy and sell vintage and antique slot machines, pinball machines, trade stimulators, and other coin operated antique machines. We have been in the antique slot machine hobby for over 45 years. Come check out our vintage coin op collection!