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Or Northern Island, think you've been in the meths again ;)
 
steve brum said:
I was at Associated Leisure all the time buying there cast offs and trying to rescue older games from the scrap line. they distributed Zac games so loads around the midlands. They had 2000 fruit machines in the warehouse and rarely more than 20 pins. just numbers to them. if you didn't buy it or weren't told about what was available , it usually went in the crusher. yould turn up to pick up a comet and sorcerer and see fathoms paragons etc left outside as unlisted stock. too old to have a book value so they couldn't sell them to you even at £1. I did get a devils riders for £1 once (plus vat of course - 15p what a disgrace!) .

you had to bribe the scrap contractor so you could put them in the van or ask them to look the other way whilst you forced the backglass out and tried to grab the pcbs. video games? no one wanted them so space invaders pacman tron star wars etc all in the crusher.
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I worked on the reclaim and scrap line at Associated Leisure in 1990, you were very lucky if you had access to buying their scrap, it was done on a military type basis, no employees could buy anything unless they paid a fortune for it, no backglasses or pinballs were allowed to be sold or taken, as soon as they went in the Leigh environmental lorry to be crushed they were then their property and any money that fell out from the crevices of the machines then belonged to them. I did hear that there was some underhanded dealings regarding saving machines but never saw it myself, I remember one day I loaded 10 Black Knights and a handful of Discs of Tron onto the Friday morning crushing lorry. Sad days, they wouldn't even let me buy the ugliest Rowe Ami jukebox I've ever seen for £250 back then! The only upside was that we used to find quite a lot of money in the machines before they went onto the crushing lorry.
 
oh sugar ive been outed for some underhand machine saving. well I never. I have checked and apart from some stuff bought legit with AL receipts ( including 7 Comets) the off the line is about 90 machines. I didn't have the space so Bob Thomson would often send up his minions the next day. to big companies didn't want to see there ex machines coming up to compete against them which is some form of logic so you had to stress you were a private collector who would not give them any comeback. there are ops even now who will not sell gaming or amusement machines to the public to avoid comebacks ("this machine has 2 bulbs out what are you going to do about it?" ) type scenarios. A Op 2 miles from me Newby Automatics will not sell to me as Im not trade.
 
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Listed this today if anyone's interested
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Look at this on eBay
Independence Day pinball machine Sega ID4 Project Full Sized Pinball Needs Work
 
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