Game restoration services...
 Here we are faced with a classic coin operated electromechanical game made by SEGA - PERISCOPE (their first game!) that we were asked to restore by a customer of ours. Originally we found the game, buried, in a warehouse basement and looked like it hadn't been used for anything other than storing things for the past twenty-odd years...
   
OK, so now we have a game...time to take it apart....
   well, you get the idea...
Then back to the shop....
 (it did manage to all fit in the shop van...)
Then set it up and time to start work.
  
Here we are checking the wiring and find a worn out fiber lift on the timing motor. Repaired with another old fiber plunger link, and cut it to size then fine tuned it with a Dremel tool.
      
And on to the next problem, in this case a substitute motor (ran WAY too fast, so they tried to slow it down with a bunch of resistors) that was installed when the original motor failed...we hunted around our shop and found a pinball motor from Europe that looked like it would do the job and so we fitted on the drive gear and then made a frame to hold it
   
What amazes me is how LONG it takes to do what appears to be simple jobs. For example it took most of the day to remove the old motor , find a replacement, then build a frame that would work correctly and look much closer to the factory design...
The periscope then took a little attention...
  Problems with the wiring, contact wipers, and the shutter took a few hours to deal with...
Well, that's all for now...I have lots more to talk about this machine and more pictures of the restoration, but I wanted to get this down in a simple notepad layout as a start...
John :-#)#
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