My (non sega) 6d machine works perfectly on u.s. To me the biggest issue would be to insure that the machine is made specifically for a given American coin. That's some interesting history but for home use they're probably fine. An investigation revealed that the Mills machines had been copied and manufactured in Japan by Sega. They researched the serial numbers and found those numbers didn't exist. According to the book, Mills executives kept getting reports of machines wearing out and general failures with their products. Sega did make machines for the American market but were made with soft, low carbon steel parts that also were not heat treated. The solution is to change the coin handling parts but that's expensive and negates profits for the importers. Even if a foreign coin is the same diameter, its thickness is different. This causes reliability problems as the tolerances are tight and the coin payout slides depend on the coin thickness to pay the correct amount. It basically says to avoid foreign slots for several reasons. Here's the info regarding Sega from 'Slot Machine Buyers Handbook' but may require so rewiring cause these machines were used mostly in Europe

If that is a real mad money then it will have newman on the reels. of course this is from a guy with 3 actual sega machines and a sega knockoff.

i think its a sad state that these machiens cant get any respect. more and more sega machines have been parted out adn put in repop mills machines to increas there value. From my point of view, if its a working vintage slot then it has to be fun.įirst pic is of auction machine and the others are just examples of other Segas.Īctualy the sega machines have plated parts so they wear better and longer then there mills counterparts.

However, these old Sega machines of this series are attractive machines, came in various colors of that era, and epitomize the mid century modern look. For home use the quality factor is probably not an issue. Apparently a lesser grade of metal was used as well to keep costs down. I've read that these imports are not particularly desirable by collectors here because of the foreign currency required and the internal mech isn't the same quality as an original Mills. From what I understand, Sega used Mills' tooling and dies and copied their design.

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