The even stranger part to this auction was part of his description:
One of the jobs involved the repairs and maintenance of pinball and amusement machines in an arcade game parlor. This was a wild, unruly and dirty place. You always had to sit or stand on your toolbox in order to keep your tools from being taken. You had to lock a machine immediately if not working on it and you had to be careful not to step on sleeping, smoking, drinking or mating bodies, humans and pets, under the machines.
Refusing to give free test games after a service would cause someone to pour cola into your pants or boots whilst you had your head inside the next machine and once, a particularly mean girl jammed my head in the machine to check my pockets for money
I asked 2 collectors from the Albury region who would of been playing the games around this time and they all said it was a crock of sh*t 
Absolute horsecrap. Back in te old days, you could leave your open toolkit on top of the machine next to the machine being worked on. You could ask one of the kids to mind your toolbox while you go out to the truck to pick up a part. Just give the kid 10 free games, and then you have instant Armaguard..
If the seller got over $100 for that pocket full of coils, then I can retire on the boxes of coils in my garage..
I might put my 1950's NOS Stepper unit on eBay starting at $150,000
