"The condition of all the (silver strike) machines was very very poor" When did the condition of the Reels ever stop a person from playing a slot machine if the machine was still working ? I played and several hunderd other people played a old type strike machine at Caesar's Tahoe for almost 6 months that had reels so bad some of the symbols were almost gone but as long as it kept paying nobody was upset. The condition you state may start to happen to more machines as time goes by because I would bet that IGT doesn't have replacment reels for the strike machines anymore since they stated way back that after a certain date they would not have parts for the machines and they hold the rights and patent's to the strike machines still. Lets hope people don't start complaining to the casino's about this very MINOR problem as this is the type of thing that gets the casino's to drop their strike program.
Walt