powerball defect

nigeswindon25 · Post by **nigeswindon25** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 8:27 pm

ok im slightly wasted but i feel the need to comment on a moment of sucess /luckplayed this shocking piece of shite as im on vodka most of the afernoon
forcing it for jp after gd signs powerball series2 and 20 on cash side so way i look at it can say no.
then out of the blue when i ping the pall the spring and nob just ablitoprate in my hand in pieces sheered off,from then on had to keep turning machine on and off every time i got a bonus shot regardless of where i was.got it off cash side in the end gambling stupid numbers didnt repeat
do not wanna go through that again
was given superboards after aswell
well pissed off
machines are shite aswell as the build quality
beware

Matty · Post by **Matty** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 3:07 am

I cant understand the above at all ! Anyone else ?

mjd · Post by **mjd** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:29 am

Ive seen this forced, and its hardly worth it. Takes a lot of money, and when you eventually get the streak you realise that your whole evening has dissappeared!!

nigeswindon25 · Post by **nigeswindon25** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 1:32 pm

sorry just realised how poorly that was actually put.basically after a few good signs i decided to force
about 20 in and being offered super streak and 20 on the cash side
though on that go when i pinged back the spring that shoots the ball it just came apart in my hand and didnt work.so basically continued to force it with out being able to go on the super feaure and evry timed i landed on the bonush shot i couldnt take it and you cant even turn it down so i had to keep turning the power on and off until i got it off the cash in the end
was just a night mare to be honest

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 2:28 pm

A similar thing happened to me at the weekend. Playing a CrazyTrails (One of the last JPMs released) and I was about £20 into it and the start button broke! It was really looking promising up to that point too, so was determined to continue. The reason I could, was because the button had broke 'stuck down'. Trouble with this though, was that you could never hold more than one reel at a time, skill stop was useless, you couldn't hi/lo on the board, and really just had to watch the board until you hit a '?' then bang, dead!

I popped another £7 or £8 in and got a 'Go all the way'. Managed to fill up the red streak at the top, and furiously bashing away (oo-er) at the 'Take Streak' button finally overrode the start button and gave me the streak. It went for £50!

I realise I got away lucky there, but it's horrible when you get into a well-playing machine and suddenly things balls up for you...

nigeswindon25 · Post by **nigeswindon25** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 2:46 pm

knew something was a miss when the little rubber ball on the pull back stick popped off and rolled anlong the floor and i was left holding the pin

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 2:53 pm

Whoops! BFMs have always had clunky bits of gear on them that fall off. Like that safe 'wheel' on Cops n Robbers. Way oversized and out of date!

JG · Post by JG » Sun Aug 06, 2006 3:42 pm

Hiii!! Only played a Powerball once. I was so pissed I could barely see, I had SKILL and was just banging things randomly. Next thing I know all the balls are red....jackpot (this was in Guildford) bloke next to me goes "I just won loads out of that" so I knew he'd missed the faters, he was ok about it htough and I was chuffed to blag a £25 out the blue

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 2:57 pm

Powerball can do an IM out of the blue. I remember I was playing it before whilst waiting for someone, I stuck £4 in. Got a fruit win first credit (cherry) and it offered collect or hi-lo gamble and it killed first gamble going lower than 11 for a 12. Wasn't until I got down to the second to last credit (and I thought it was on the suck) that I spun in two Powerball symbols on the winline with a nudge to bring in the third in view for the board when 'GO ALL THE WAY' flashed on the alphanumeric display and into IM for a £25+RPT which went once getting me a nice £50.

Remember, forcing most Bell-Fruits isn't a good idea.

milk monitor · Post by **milk monitor** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 4:03 pm

Top streak can be achieved by pulling the machine towards you about 30 degree's when taking a spin. it will never land in the lose hole because the the ball will come back over.

Obviously it will not be possible to do this at every site, but if you find a quiet one give it a try.

bigv038 · Post by **bigv038** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:31 am

milk monitor wrote:Top streak can be achieved by pulling the machine towards you about 30 degree's when taking a spin. it will never land in the lose hole because the the ball will come back over.

Obviously it will not be possible to do this at every site, but if you find a quiet one give it a try.

is this really true?

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 8:53 am

The physics of it say it is possible, but I don't think I'd risk crushing myself to death for the odd £25 'streak'!

I think someone should buy one of these, and take the plastic / glass of the powerball feature off and play it normally. When you get on the super feature, just contiuously 'drop the ball in the streak hole'. Then see how long it takes you to get on the board again...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 12:53 pm

Or just remove the glass on one in a quiet place, then block the Mystery and Lose holes then put the glass back on.

I like the Powerball feature as there is actually true skill involved rather than the machine making its mind up for you.

MrRed · Post by **MrRed** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 6:08 pm

Ok this has been discussed before but now i am convinced that this has a magnet in it

Played one while bored and got on the powerball feature
Kept landing in cash and features till i had £10 and one feature from the top

Then it gave extra balls so i had 4
Surely this must be jp
No!
It went to land in add feature and then veered

away into mystery and kicked me off
It did not look like it had happened naturally if you know what i mean
Anyway the feature think its called super knockout gave £20 so it was ok but it should easy have been jp

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 8:38 pm

MrRed wrote:Ok this has been discussed before but now i am convinced that this has a magnet in it

Played one while bored and got on the powerball feature
Kept landing in cash and features till i had £10 and one feature from the top

Then it gave extra balls so i had 4
Surely this must be jp
No!
It went to land in add feature and then veered away into mystery and kicked me off
It did not look like it had happened naturally if you know what i mean
Anyway the feature think its called super knockout gave £20 so it was ok but it should easy have been jp

what you are saying is that you had 4 balls and you got a mystery that gave lose balls,

obviously it will take this opportunity to take all the balls off you and kill you next press. you managed to get hte machine to offer more than it wanted to, if you had got the streak or jp the machine would have avoided going on the board for a good £15 - £20..

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