Air rifle Pellet machine

[micky2]

Hi Jim, yours is a different size Wadkin to mine, If your magazine stack guides are circular, it dispensed small round cardboard packets larger, but in the style of those little containers gun roll caps used to come in years ago, I have seen these mentioned in the past. Have a look at page 21 here;

http://www.belltarget.com/resources/...rget_Story.pdf

It was a way of getting club funds in and several companies made machines, I will have a look in my complete airgunner book as I think there are adverts in there, but am sure Avery did machines as well in different sizes.

Mine is smaller and has small oblong tins in, will get some pics up this weekend, but the internals are totally different to yours I am afraid so I can't offer help on what yours may be missing

Hi Mickey........It was a Malvern item

ATB, Ed

Hi Ed, l knew one of them would turn up at Malvern at some point, glad you are back with us, and hope all is well with you now, l couldn't reply to you earlier has l have only just got back on here since mid December.

[Garvin]

http://www.belltarget.com/resources/...rget_Story.pdf

Ed thanks for posting that Spittle book link. I've just had another read of it for the umpteenth time - and what a fantastic read it is. FS was a wonderful writer, evoking the smoke- and perspiration-filled atmosphere of a Black country pub shoot spectacularly well.

[harvey_s]

Hi Jim

We met many years when I bought a Morini from you.. Might I suggest you join the Penny Machines Forum.

Your machine looks nearly identical outwardly to the phonograph dispensing machine on their website: see here about 2/3rds of the way down: http://pennymachines.co.uk/Museum/Venders-1.shtml

I would think this might be your best source of help...

[Garvin]

Hi Jim

We met many years when I bought a Morini from you.. Might I suggest you join the Penny Machines Forum.

Your machine looks nearly identical outwardly to the phonograph dispensing machine on their website: see here about 2/3rds of the way down: http://pennymachines.co.uk/Museum/Venders-1.shtml

I would think this might be your best source of help...

Here's a pic of the Watkins phonograph needle dispensing machine. (Well spotted, Harvey!) And a cigarette one here.

[Jimlad]

Thanks Gents very interesting the needle machine is identical.

jim

[Jimlad]

Hi All
For those of you that may be interested, with the help of members on this site and the forum below I have got the pellet machine working Just a little cosmetic repairs left, further information available here.

http://pennymachines.co.uk/Forum/vie...8ef394a7703a78

Any of you pellet tin collectors come across small round packets that could have been used in this machines,
probably made of cardboard about an inch in diameter and hold about 5 or 6 pellets? would be pleased to here form you.
Well get some better photos done when finished.

[Garvin]

Hi All
For those of you that may be interested, with the help of members on this site and the forum below I have got the pellet machine working Just a little cosmetic repairs left, further information available here.

http://pennymachines.co.uk/Forum/vie...8ef394a7703a78

Any of you pellet tin collectors come across small round packets that could have been used in this machines,
probably made of cardboard about an inch in diameter and hold about 5 or 6 pellets? would be pleased to here form you.
Well get some better photos done when finished.

Great result, Jim. What a fantastic site that pennymachines.co.uk is, particularly in providing the patent drawings.

[Jimlad]

Hi Folks

sorry to be a pain, it is the continuing saga of the pellet machine, I now think I have found what the pellets were dispensed in, so if any of you pellet tin collectors have come across anything like this I would be pleased to know, I would think the tin would be about an inch in diameter,
http://www..com.au/itm/Antique-tiger...wAAOSwPc9Wu~jd

[harvey_s]

Link not working... But if you insert the well known auction site name in between the 2 dots after 'www' it does.

Funnily enough I have a bottle of Dr. Kilmers Swamp Root kidney, liver & bladder cure which got dug up during some building works in our yard ...no tins of ointment though.

[Garvin]

You need to search for item no. 262285546250 on the auction site.

[Garvin]

Jim I'm not sure they held tins but rather boxes instead. I just noticed an advert for them in a c.1909 BSA brochure here and it clearly says "pellet boxes".

[Jimlad]

Try again

[Josie & John]

Hi All,

There were numerous varieties of these dispensers, which were made and distributed by several makers, primarily of weighing machines. Card boxes were used, as were small tin boxes, which were similar to the card toy cap boxes we all remember from our youth. Here are a couple of examples. They'll take 11 pellets comfortably, so they were not very big.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8uozt59kb7...35.16.jpg?dl=0

Kind regards,

John

[battyone]

I'm pretty sure that everyone who has read this thread and wondered at your amazing good fortune in finding this wonderful relic, is keeping their eyes open. Looking for anything that could be used.

I really hope someone finds a stack of cap boxes or similar, that get the old thing dispensing again.

[micky2]

You can pick up card cap boxes on that well known.