Re: Columbia BS Coin-Op - Reproduction Machine?
Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 5:45 pm
Hi Mike- I've owned two BS machines over the years-- Still have one of them. I've also had two Columbia N coin-ops that I've recently sold-- My take on your machine is- old case and base--- At some point someone took a complete Columbia B mechanism (which is the main mech for a BS) and added reproduction coin-op parts. In the 80's there were two main suppliers of all the parts needed to make a "B" function as a "BS". Elmer Jones in California and Mirek Stehlik in Canada. They both made excellent parts for coin-ops, Berliners, Zonophones, etc. It would be my guess (somewhat educated)that all the coin specific parts are repro, but without seeing in person it would be impossible to say definitively. On the feet, it is easy to see the rough casting marks of a repro part.
So.. like others have said.. It's a functioning "BS" that has all the "right" looking parts-- but the coin parts are likely all repro. The mechanism started life as a "B", not a "BS"
As George said-- If it was sold as an "original" BS, then there would be questions to ask.
Hope that helps-
Brad Abell
So.. like others have said.. It's a functioning "BS" that has all the "right" looking parts-- but the coin parts are likely all repro. The mechanism started life as a "B", not a "BS"
As George said-- If it was sold as an "original" BS, then there would be questions to ask.
Hope that helps-
Brad Abell