Merry Christmas from Alaska
My dad used to have a couple pachinko machines that I used to play with when I was a kid. Fast forward about forty years and my wife manages to hook up with someone fairly local who had a Sanyo Comet II from about 1976. It's pretty rare to see any pachinko machines up here, and shipping costs from the Lower 48 can be quite exorbitant. The machine apparently had been sitting in someone's basement for the last 20-30 years. It became my big Christmas surprise this morning.
Playfield has some grime, pins are tarnished, case is a little beat up, it has a single pane of plexiglass for the two glass panels, ball feed tray has multiple chips, lights don't work properly and jackpot switch looks worn out and bent, top right ball bumper appears to be nailed down, and the chrome trim is pitted and rusted. I also have a replacement feed tray, but the plastic is yellowed and the decal has faded to nothing. Otherwise, all of the mechanics are sound, all of the necessary parts appear to be intact (except for the window cover over the seesaw), and it's fun as heck to play.
It should be a fun restoration project. My wife is so proud of her Christmas nostalgia score that she says I can mount it on the wall anywhere in the house. Imagine that!
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