Restoring Mercury Whirl, a beautiful 1980's electromechanical slot machine!

Hello.
I'm very proud to present You an awesome restored hard-to-find electromechanical slot machine.
This entertainment 40kg puppy was created in the 1980 years by a german company named "Mercury" and it could be found inside cafe and game rooms.
At the time the cost of this machine was about 2000 dollars.
I have found it in excellent conditions at less of 80 dollars .. oh-my-God!
With calm and patience I have found also the rare original programmer, manuals and spare parts.

What I have done:

- Cleaned and polished the whole machine, lubricated the moving parts;
- Replaced all the burned out bulbs;
- Replaced the backup battery;
- Eliminated the shorts created by a couple of gold-plated coins between some mainboard soldering contacts;
- Sort all the wires and locked with teflon strips;
- Seek and found 250 original pieces of the old italian "500 liras" and polished one by one;
- Seek and found the original german programmer;
- Seek and found the original manuals and electronic schemes;
- Seek and found all the original spare parts.


The slot machine:



This is a "full of king":



This is a very rare "Royal Flush":



Inside the machine:



The step-by-step motors:



The polished 500 liras:



Some of the original gold plated coins:



The rare alphanumeric original programmer:



The slot in action:



The 500 liras are used only to buy credits.
When important combinations appears (I.E.: poker of aces, straight flush, royal flush), an electromechanical device enables the delivery of the gold plated coins, compatible with the value of the bet.

Have fun :beer: