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No More Fuss Boledo Buyers: Lottery Machine Now Working
posted (June 9, 2016)
You all may remember the Sunday April 3rd Lottery uproar at the Magistrates Court. City residents were furious because the supervisors refused to start the game over after one of 4 balls did not pop up in its chamber. Police even had to be called out to calm the crowd. Well, as we told you, since then, the double pick machine has been used for the Sunday Lottery draw but, it won't be used much longer. That's because the Lottery machine has been fixed. Today we spoke to the machine suppliers from Smart Play International and the Service manager explained that it was a few electrical problems and improper storage that might have led to the fault in the machine.

Randy Craft, Service Mgr. Smart Play Int'l
"I come down and I'll do it, a preventative maintenance pretty much go over everything in the machine. In this particular case there was an issue with the slide not opening up which we picked a few things that could've been the issue. We've replaced the parts and have been testing it most of the day and its been working fine."

Courtney Weatherburne
"So it's just some parts, just mechanical issues you'd say?"

Randy Craft, Service Mgr. Smart Play Int'l
"Mostly mechanical, a couple electrical issues that could've been the problem, but it's hard to say."

Courtney Weatherburne
"As you were telling me before there's certain conditions that the machine should be stored in. Can you talk to us about that in terms of the life of the machine?"

Randy Craft, Service Mgr. Smart Play Int'l
"Well it's like anything, its wear and tear, every time you move it its wear and tear. Also you have temperature issues so you prefer it to be in air conditioning where it can stay the same temperature as you're going to use it doing the drawing. The change in temperature then you get condensation and you get issues which you really don't want to have."

So as you saw the Lottery machine is up and running and Brads told us that by next week it should be used for the draw. In regards to the storage issue, Brads told us that he might have to switch the location of the Sunday draw from the Magistrate court to Brads' Air Conditioned room at his store, which will become the storage room as well. We will keep you updated as to when that change occurs.

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