I'm pretty new to MMV so seeing this for the first time. I had one of these when I was 10 years old. Haven't thought about it in years until I saw this!
If nobody told you already it is simplicity itself to anneal the spring steel. Just heat the part to about 300 (just around where it turns dark red - or check for exact times and temps for spring steel) degrees or so and leave it to cool..It will be soft and ductile again...But that was brilliant..Well done.
MMV Fan club. Leon Jones, watched this episode when you first posted then watched again as you don't just fix things but you entertain people, you give me an escape in the evenings. 👍👍👍👍
Very very jealous of this, Vince. It just looks so incredibly well designed and manufactured. What a fantastic item! And slug tape to the rescue once again! 👍
This is an excellent fix, that's a really properly built Japanese toy with metal gears etc, made back when things were made properly, not like the newer stuff with flimsy plastic bits that just break off! Although the concept is quite complex, it's a solution to a problem that wasn't there in the first place, it could have been made so the telescopic arm could have been extended manually, reminded me of those powered telescopic car radio aerials people had in the 1980s.
Older toys are fantastics. I had a few hand-me-downs from the 60s/70s era when I was a kid in the 80s. I remember playing with them till they broke, then trying to repair even when I was young. Pretty sure I made a mess of it. Enjoyed the video!
MMV fan club. Wesley-james WackyJwallace Chabot. Dear Vince, I have watched your videos for at least a year now, and you never disappoint, even in your failures. I have an Atari 2600, a colecovision and a french Canadian speak and spell, all in need of repair. I hope one day I will be able to fix them, and watching your videos sure makes this day seem close. Thank you.
MMV Fan Club - Kyle Truxton - Thanks Vince for all the joy your videos bring to me. Truly inspired me to give it a go around the house and I’m truly impressed with what I’m able to fix when i put my mind to it. Thanks again! Cheers!
MMV fan club - Aleksandar Ignjatovic - sweet restoration, and a nice gift from Eliot. I hope to see more vintage gaming pieces restored here. Greetings from Serbia!
@@jasonudall8614 heat it up using a small handheld blowtorch ,same one cooks use ,until the metal turns orange and the spring steel will be annealed . you have to ,at least heat it to the point where the metal glows . so a hot air station would not work or soldering iron .
MMV Fan Club - Paolo Lumba - Great fix Vince. Your channel is very entertaining and i am learning many things about fixing electronics and other stuff. This is definitely a channel that deserves a million plus subscriber..
LOVED this! I've been watching your channel for quite a few years and this has to be one of my favourite fixes. Made the year before I was born. Nice one, Vince!
Ooh that's a awsome toy! That is exactly how a toy should be! Brilliant for a couple of hour before it breaks and end up in a box :) 50 years later a man on the other side of the world fix it! Thank you extremely entertaining!
I could only imagine how much a Nintendo periscope would be worth?! But this item goes beyond the money threshold because just how unique it really is as well. One of a million find here. That black spring is iconic of virtually of alot of late 70's to 1980's wind up toys. Truly a genius bi-product as well but extremely erratic and temperamental to handle...I remember taking them apart via wind up motor car engines!! Damn thing made my 8 year old arm and hands twist & turn, you can also cut yourself with them as well!!! Awesome video.
MMV Fan Club Nigel S Massive thanks for the videos Vince. They have really inspired me to try fixing things. Love the variety of the items you fix and the engaging way you present in the videos. I always look forward to the next upload! Keep up the good work!
You have to hand it to toymakers back then, they really were clever as heck! making things simple as possible yet working right, all that with no microcontrollers all mechanical, Fantastic isn't it.
MMV Fan Club, Sam Henry. Always love watching your videos, they have inspired me to expand my electronics repair knowledge. I can repair a significant amount more than I could before I started watching. Keep it up! 👍🏻
Nice one Vince Great Fix. I love seeing you fix stuff that is fantastically made in the first place. The only thing I would have done you didn't is used rivets on the spring.
that nintendo periscope is awesome! that's from back when kids played in the dirt with cars and cap-guns. i didn't realize nintendo made toys before video games. great fix-it video!
Scrub-a-dub-dub, Our Mate Vince cleaned it in the tub! If you ever want to bend the broken off part of the spring, use a torch to heat it up till it’s red and allow it to air cool. This will remove the spring on the end. 👍
MMV fan club. Lee Williamson, Hi Vince been watching from the beginning love the new quick fix format with other youtube fixers. I also enjoyed watching the ministry of sound speaker video you put out last week. its brilliant how far technically you have come from the beginning keep up the good work Lee
👍 MMV Fan Club. Peg Tooth. It is hot today! Vince you have a great 'dépistage' technique. (Fault finding) You certainly areone of the most tenacious repair RU-vidrs £ for pound. I get a lot of satisfaction in watching your presentations. Keep it up, Vince!
MMV fan club. Heath Walford, Been a fan of fix it vids a long time and Vince was one of the first , I even picked up a few rip n tricks along the way 😎👍
I loved the whole video don't get me wrong but the best part was at the end when you were so excited to see it working and going up and down. I imagine just as excited as the kid who got this in the 70s. Great work, mate!
This reminded me of the Nintendo duck hunt mechanical shooting game with a projector(before the NES version even) from the 70's as well. Just like this mechanical toy periscope! There's videos here on youtube of it btw. Awesome fix on this toy & good call :)
MMV Fanclub. I'm Nicklas Hjelm, as my username already tells you 😁 But hey Vince! I get so happy every time I see a new video from you. I watch them all, the longer vids, the better! Keep it up, ur doing a great job!
What an awesome find! We used to make these things as kids to spy our neighbors. Many a day we solved the mystery it saved the world. Used our imaginations and had great,epic adventures. I'm thinking you might just find a replacement spring for it in a different toy from the same time frame. Lots of toys used the same parts back then.
the spring is made of spring steel. you pretty much always need to heat it with a torch to make and sharp changes to the shape. even a little hand held butane torch would get the job done. it is what i use when repairing an odd ball pull start recoil assembly.
MMV Fan Club, Jamie Allan Mitchell, you have inspired me to fix items I would of chucked out and love your videos been a subscriber for years, keep up the good work 👌
Well done in getting it close to being perfectly fixed. I doubt Elliot will be able to do as great as you. I have never seen one of those devices before. Anyway great job.
I find each of these videos interesting and entertaining this video marks a piece of history of nintendo and look very odd to use, keep up the good work Vince
Great video again. Small thing: I'd have used home brand dish washing liquid or hand soap, rather than shower gel, due to cost, but they're all surfactants. And if you didn't you can save a lot of work by soaking for a while.
Cool toy and the raising & lowering mechanism principal brings car power antennas in mind. I recall seeing them repaired at least in Mercedessource and Eric the Car Guy RU-vid channels :)
This intrigued me, because I had absolutely no idea what this was until you folded out the section you look through. Lol! Love things like this though, now I wish I had one to repair haha
Really nice gadget. Wonder if they sold any of these to golf spectators as a posh alternative to the cardboard ones often seen at US Open etc. rather than just ‘toy’. Great fix Vince. 👍
This... is... amazing! Thank you Vince and Elliot. There's something kind of Game And Watch/Gameboy original (aka DMG) about the design. It also looks like Nintendo were trying to branch out from it's ancient routes of card game manufacturing (such as Hanafuda/Koikoi (sorry if they're spelt incorrectly), prior to the Famicom/NES and Gameboy.
