Slot Machine Restoration details and pricing

This ORIGINAL Mill's F.O.K. Vender slot machine came to us in very poor condition. One of it's owners painted it inside and out with silver spray paint. As you can imagine the entire mechanism being painted like that was frozen solid. The handle wouldn't pull, the reels wouldn't rotate nor would it pay a nickel. Some time with C&A Slot Restorations and this would all change.

When you look at the FOK to the left you can imagine why the owner would not want it taking up space in a gameroom. After C&A Slot Restorations restored the machine it became a sought after item and a proudly displayed functional center piece of a gameroom. To the right is the fully restored machine. Yes, it's the same machine! All original parts, including the top marquee and vender parts. After restoration the original owner wanted to display the machine back in her gameroom and bid on the machine at auction.

This machine was sold to C&A Slot Restorations for $690
After a suprerb restoration the machine sold for $2625
(more than a 380% increase in value!)
Go to original auction page & see more pictures of this one!

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This 1887 POKER TRADE STIMULATOR was practically given to C&A Slot Restorations. The owner just wanted it out of thier house. The mechanism was completely rusted solid and well you can see the cabinet and what we did with it. Unfortunately, we had to sell it. That's how we pay our bills.

When the owner of this machine contacted us she wanted it out of her house and offered it to us for $500. We just could not take it for that price so we offered her a bit more. I'm sure after she saw the restoration she was kicking herself in the butt for selling it.

This machine was sold to C&A Slot Restorations for $725
After a suprerb restoration the machine sold for $3128
(more than a 430% increase in value!)
Go to original auction page & see more pictures of this one!

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The 1939 Diamond Front here was restored for a client who just wanted a machine he could show and play at parties in his game room.
It was in very poor condition until C&A Slot Restorations performed their magic.

The Mill's Diamond Front machine was the first machine which was fully chrome plated by Mill's. Though C&A Slot Restorations would be happy to chrome the entire machine that would be prohibitively expensive and price the machine way out of the resale market so we came up with a more cost effective alternative which our client was very happy with and matched the decor of the basement game room it was displayed in.

Although originality is our number one goal
alternatives always exist and clients always run the show.

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This Mills Castlefront slot machine was sold to us missing parts, very greasy and rusted. It had peeling paint and with a broken casting. We welded the casting, polished for hours, disassembled, cleaned and reassembled the mech, replaced the worn and tattered reel strips and added the side vender.

This is the machine which started it all. The beginnings of C&A Slot Restorations. Sitting around discussing our collections over a cocktail and this machine popped up on ebay. We restored it, sold it and the rest is history (pun intended)!

What a change! It's not plated......It's hours of polishing to
bring out the mirror within!

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The Mills Little Perfection below was missing parts, the internal mechanism wasn't even attached to the case and the wood was beginning to rot. We fixed that!

Old wooden machines are one of our favorites. They are never touched with sandpaper unless absolutely necessary. Once the finish or wood is altered in anyway it just won't be the same. Instead of altering the wood we restore it to stop rot and even reverse rot. Of course, if you want the stain color changed we will but we don't recommend that. Have a machine with drinking glass rings or water damage no problem unsually we can deal with those things without stripping or sanding.

As for the internal mechanism the pictures speak for themself!

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This Mills Owlfront restoration was one of C&A's donations to a 2008 Cedar Rapids flood victim. It spent two weeks under water and it was all a labor of love!

This was a dirty job! As you can see rust was only one of our problems. The floods backed up sewers so this machine was full of all that, inside and out. We were able to save the original tin reel strips and refinish the original oak cabinet. The payoff card was the only part of this machine that we had to replace.

Hours of polishing, staining, painting scrubing and disinfecting, but it's all worth it in the end!

The pictures say it all!

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This 1936 Bursting Cherry or properly referred to as the brown front was restored back to factory specs. as the client wanted.

This came to us after a bad gaudy restoration. It was painted colors it never should have been, scratched up and overall bordering on fair condition. The original oak cabinet was painted silver and cracked in multiple locations. When C&A Slot Restorations returned it to our client it looked as though we reversed time to 1936.

It's now a piece of American history which will be proudly displayed, not stored in a back closet!

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The 1937 Bonus Horsehead below was restored in the 1970's to look like it had a stone finish, aparently this was the fad.

This was no longer the look our client wanted in has display room. After hours of stripping, polishing, painting and repair this is what came out of the C&A Slot Restorations shop.

It's fully functional and will be enjoyed like this for another
eighty years.

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This 1935 Dough Boy was recovered from an old lady who had no idea what it was. She thought it was a non-functional toy.

It was nonfunctional when we recovered it but it was a fairly easy fix and with a new paint job to get rid of the 1970 bad glitter look it was restored to 1935 condition.

Not a grand machine but a fun addition to any
gameroom none-the-less!

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This 1937 Groetchen Zephyr Trade Stimulator was sent to us from Louisiana in unworking order.

This trade stimulator was missing parts, obviously not well cared for and neglected for years. Although not an extremely valuable machine this Groetchen Zephyr had a history with our client and he wanted to be able to proudly display and play the machine.

After we got done with the machine it could be proudly displayed and even used as it was designed.

Wow, what a change!

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This 1926 Console Jennings Club Special had been sitting under water for months before we saw it.

This machine was overhauled and restored for one of the largest antique slot machne and jukebox dealers in the world. When we got this machine it had rotted and warped sides, no back lower door and the front lower half of the console was falling apart from rot. The base was also missing so that was rebuilt from original pictures. Lots of time and love went into this machine but as can you see it was all worth it. We were able to straiten and rebuild the original sides and keep the originality of the machine intact.

This Jennings Console Club Special is now proudly displayed as one machine in a multimillion dollar collecton in the Chicago area.

GREAT MACHINE and as we see it a fun project!

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