I’m going to be tackling this project bit by bit as time permits, and I have no deadlines to meet, so the restoration may take a while.

My intention is to do a thorough and fundamentally sound job on the mechanism and an attractive restoration of the exterior. I’m not undertaking this restoration with the expectation of selling the machine, nor am I trying to make every part on the machine look brand new.

Resurrecting an old, neglected coin-0p of any variety can be a very fulfilling experience. Hopefully the end result will be an attractive and fully-functional slot machine. I decided that documenting the process would be a good exercise for me and might prove valuable to other collectors contemplating a similar restoration, so I built this blog to serve as my restoration diary. I’ve worked on several slot machines in the past, but this will be my first complete tear-down and ground-up restoration. The price was right, so I bought the machine and brought it home. The machine was not functioning, but appeared to be reasonably complete. A while back I acquired a Mills High Top antique slot machine from a local seller that I found through Craigslist.

Mills qt slot machine diagram