Vintage Japanese Pachinko Machine - $100 McMinnville

[JACKSJE4]

Owen, is this one of yours?? Regardless, it sure has a pretty cell.

http://portland.craigslist.org/yam/tag/2532603336.html

[owennewton]

not one of mine

[Moparformances]

not one of mine

if he was asking lees $ for IT... IT would be

[owennewton]

I can't afford to do anything but if it were say $50 or less then I would be blasting his inbox right now

[JACKSJE4]

Make him an offer. You never know what people will accept.

[owennewton]

I tossed an email asking if it had balls, if it works, is it all there and if he would take less almost 3 hours ago and have not had a reply yet

[owennewton]

he replied late yesterday and I called the number he gave me about 20 minutes after he sent the mail. He did not pick up must not be interested in selling that bad

[owennewton]

So the dude called me back this afternoon and said he would be willing to let it go for $80, I figured that if I went and looked at it I was going to be able to talk him down. I got there and it is beautiful, the chrome is perfect, the cell is dirty but has no stains or ware on it, neat looking center feature and a bunch of tulips. 100_2392.jpg100_2393.jpg100_2394.jpg100_2395.jpg. I turn it around and see a bunch of stuff missing, 100_2391.jpgthe reward hopper, ball track cover, jackpot seesaw and covers, tracks for winning balls on the payout lever, linkages and lots of screws. I like the machine enough even with the missing parts to offer $40 he hems and haws for a few minutes, I lean the machine back against the wall and stand back up and he says "could you go $50?" I pull a $50 out of my pocket and now have my 30th pachinko.

It was more than I wanted to spend but I did not have to burn $30 worth of gas to get it so I am content, plus I have had some real good deals with the last few so if I average it was not bad at all.

I need a complete back for it (4 twist connectors hold it on) or a parts machine or I can convert it to cyclic. I am leaning to swapping parts with my other sankyo if it is the same mech and if not then making it cyclic.

[JACKSJE4]

WOW!! The cell alone makes it worth the money you spent! Me likes!!! I am naming it "Sankyo Choo-Choo"

As for the parts that are missing, I bet the PT community can rally and find the parts you need. I don't think I have any Sankyo parts machines in my shop, but I will check.

[mxfaiman]

Great machine owen. Me likes too!! The cell is in fantastic shape. The front of it alone made it worth the $50. I'm sure you'll find parts for it or you will figure something out. I would help you out but I have only 2 sankyo's and both are 95% complete. (only missing some basic covers and minor things) If I ever come across some parts I'll let you know owen.

Also I know cardwwi makes the track cover and the ball trays. If you wouldn't mind getting reproduction ones.

[owennewton]

it is the payout seesaw that has me worried, my other sankyo that is 4 years older has the same back so I am just going to swap the sunpaks and see about Afro-American engineering with my daiichi parts and see if I can make it work, if not I will do a cyclic mod on my dog and monkey sankyo as it will have the half back in about two hours

[mxfaiman]

got any pictures of the dog and monkey machine?

[owennewton]

got any pictures of the dog and monkey machine?

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[mxfaiman]

Yeah I would use the dog and monkey machine for the parts. Because the other one is just too nice looking to be made into a cyclic or a parts machine. plus you can always make the dog and monkey machine into a franken-pachi.

[owennewton]

that is the plan, I need to tinker with the lights a bit and have two parts that need to be swapped but it will be a quick fix to get the new one going

[mxfaiman]

well keep us updated and provide some pictures.