Nice old Sankyo Find
Here's an old Sankyo I found today at an antique shop. They wanted $75 but got them to take $40 for it. It was VERY dusty & the chrome around the window was rusty, but the playfield was very clean.
Here's how it looks after my initial cleanup... and it works, after cleaning a ton of dust, some broken glass and other stuff out of the payout tracks.
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looks good, great price!
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There's quite a bit of stuff on this one for being a vintage, there are 16 spinners (14 white & two small yellow), 4 pockets w/flippers that open when balls go in the top center and the row of 6 pockets, and the red/green part has two side entrances that open when a ball goes into the center of it. There are 14 pockets in total. Not that it's easy to get them in most of them though!
I think some touch up cleaning and a second look at some of the payout mechanism (it sticks occasionally) should complete the restoration.
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What a Super find!!
Nice Price too!!
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It sounds like you got yourself a great machine at an oh-so-nice price. Congratulations!
Dawn
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nice find and even nicer price
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I should have taken a picture of it as found... oh well... the picture is of the machine after I already completed a lot of work on it.Originally Posted by Sid
Nice Find!!! and looking forward to the after pics!
what I've done so far is:
Removed 22 very rusty balls, some broken glass, a ton of dust & a huge, long-dead cockroach from the payout system, cleaned the Plexiglas window (you can see through it now!), sanded the rust (of which there was a lot) off of the chrome door trim & repainted it, removed a ton of dust from the upper and lower ball trays & from the back of the machine, and got the lights working w/a 9v battery.
I still need to check out a couple of sticky pockets, clean up the upper/lower ball trays some more & give the payout system another once-over.
The back is intact, with all covers present and in good shape.
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Congratulations! Great find and very nice restoration work.
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dinner or snack ?
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