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Post by moppy on Mar 28, 2017 14:17:11 GMT
Any ideas how this is going to work. Tarrat tables have said the mechanism can't be changed to the new coin because of the corners, but a £2 coin will work. Or maybe a stack of old coins behind the bar. Who knows!!!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2017 15:58:26 GMT
Any ideas how this is going to work. Tarrat tables have said the mechanism can't be changed to the new coin because of the corners, but a £2 coin will work. Or maybe a stack of old coins behind the bar. Who knows!!! barbilliards.proboards.com/thread/16392/new-pound-coin
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2017 17:28:28 GMT
We have it in writing that Tarratts are to convert all their tables to the £2 coin. This 100% increase he feels is justified as a game of bb's has been pegged at £1 since the mid-1980's.
Our table is privately owned and we are loath to put ours up in like manner as to ride on Rod's shirt tails would be seen as taking advantage, we will therefore be converting to the new £1 coin and are prepared to pay for the privilege. A label has been appended to the table saying "round pounds only please prior to conversion".
We don't like the idea of employing the old coins as tokens, for reasons already explained on the other thread. We also favour a simple conversion, so that it will only take the new coin, and not both pound coins ! i.e. Once the old one is taken out of circulation it should drop straight through.
If we can't find an expert to do the conversion in time for the start of next season, we will simply put it to freeplay.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2017 13:48:21 GMT
The easiest way of dealing with problem, for privately owned tables, is keep a supply of the round £1 coins behind the bar. These can then be exchanged for the new ones if people want to play. I think that is what the Wellie is going to do.
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Post by Chris_Sav on Mar 29, 2017 15:01:23 GMT
The easiest way of dealing with problem, for privately owned tables, is keep a supply of the round £1 coins behind the bar. These can then be exchanged for the new ones if people want to play. I think that is what the Wellie is going to do. And sooner or later the lot behind the bar will likely disappear.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2017 16:06:32 GMT
And what a performance that would entail !
In a profit-share arrangement the barstaff would have to keep two separate coin supplies, one lot of, say, eighty old coins (diminishing) and one increasing tally of the new coins as they are swapped.
Otherwise, if just five 'tokens' are to be produced for league night, the table would have to be emptied at the end of each evening so that they could be used again.
Extra (probably unwelcome) responsibility put onto the bar staff - and a lot of extra visits needed no doubt by the private owner.
Paying forty pounds plus expenses to someone for a conversion seems to me to be good value when pitted against all that poncing around !
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Post by moppy on Mar 29, 2017 16:16:31 GMT
Surely a conversion can't be that difficult. I played my first ever game in The Druids. It was 5p. Then 10p,20p,50p and now a £1. 50p's and 20p's have corners, so I don't see a problem.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2017 16:53:49 GMT
Surely a conversion can't be that difficult. I played my first ever game in The Druids. It was 5p. Then 10p,20p,50p and now a £1. 50p's and 20p's have corners, so I don't see a problem. .......and before that, the tanner (6d) and my first game was in the Nelson, Horsham which was a threepenny bit. With corners.
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Post by Chris_Sav on Mar 29, 2017 20:41:11 GMT
Surely a conversion can't be that difficult. I played my first ever game in The Druids. It was 5p. Then 10p,20p,50p and now a £1. 50p's and 20p's have corners, so I don't see a problem. We've had a lot more detailed look at this and there is a problem. Take a look at the other thread, this coin is variable diameter over the flats and points which is totally different to the 50p which is the same diameter all the way around with no flat sides and no problem to the mechs. If you attempt to mill the slot out then the old £1 will drop straight through unless you fit a much wider piston, which will weaken the bar handle. Great fun for the landlords to have old £1 coins dropping straight through!.
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