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Lots of handy info in the Cashbox mags I am scanning NARF. There are a lot of adds from the 80's selling cabinets that I cannot remember seeing on site. Doesnt help you now, but I will get them done as soon as I can. Worth a look whan finished.

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cheers furball

 

they didnt arrive today but hopefully tommorow

 

ive got a lia lowboy and these are slightly different in side design. one has some galaga style fins about the marquee

 

so far ive got 4 and each one is different.

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anyone know if the good old aussie lowboy came in variations?

 

got 2 comming that are lowboys but dont quite fit the usual look

 

anyone seen 1 with tmoulding and the edges on the outside face routed about 5mm along :unsure

 

Lowboy was a brand name registered by LAI / Avel , In 20" There was only ever one shape template used from the day they first produced them , There were many improvements including back doors , skid rails and a stack of internal mods with just about every version.

The wood grain colors changed a lot of times but they were always made from 16 ply Marine ply , The only other color that was not wood grain was a one of batch of 40 Yellow lowboys made for an amusement center in scarborough about 16 years ago , the center was called spinout.

When it closed down all these lowboys were auctioned off , that created a fair bit of exposure to people that had never seen anything but woodgrain so quite a few people started re laminating them in all sorts of colors.

 

I have lost count of the amount of cloned lowboys , but one sure way of knowing it was original is if it's made of marine ply , I have never seen a clone made from Ply but a lot of people thought the shape needing improving , man there was some ugly idea's of improvement out there :)

All LAI made lowboys had a name plate on the top of the machine at the back , they did sell a lot of Shells , these never had anything in them so the tag wasn't required.

 

So in reality only machines made by LAI were lowboys , all the rest were just 20 " uprights that followed no rules.

 

Just for interest sake back in the 80's LAI were manufacturing 74 complete 20" lowboys per day.

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Just for interest sake back in the 80's LAI were manufacturing 74 complete 20" lowboys per day.

 

Interesting read, thanks!

 

Is there a way to figure out roughly when an LAI Lowboy was made?. Can't see any dating on mine. However, you did mention woodgrain colours and other revisions over the course of their run.

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I have lost count of the amount of cloned lowboys , but one sure way of knowing it was original is if it's made of marine ply

 

I have had plenty of lowboys complete with LAI nameplates that were made of MDF

I've never seen one made of ply

Maybe it's an SA thing??

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I have had plenty of lowboys complete with LAI nameplates that were made of MDF

I've never seen one made of ply

Maybe it's an SA thing??

 

Lowboys were only made in WA, all LAI cabinets were built in WA and made from marine ply, the only machines they ever made that contained MDF was the last cabinets they made, the Yellow 38" uprights.

Back at the same time there was also a huge underground poker machine operation all over Australia ( called Draw Poker and built in LAI lowboys ), you could purchase the shell only from LAI , all the name plates were removed to hide the identity of the purchaser and most were put on clones.

What a lot of people didn't realise at the time was that the name plate numbers used on the shells were not in the same sequence and had no matching electrical tag associated with them , this way they knew which cabinets were sold fully wired and tagged as apposed to the many dodgy ones making the rounds.

There were plenty of nameplates ripped off cabinets in them days and put on clones for higher sale value to people who didn't know better.

 

It's staggering how many people cloned these machines and sold them off as legitimate LAI machines , most people had no idea what they were buying, but I can assure there was not one single LAI built lowboy made out of MDF.

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