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Amco Tank buster penny arcade game


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Hi Guys

Recently picked up a game had no idea what it was but it had a tank and I had to have it.

 

Turns out it's a New Zealand built game roughly late 50s early 60s and was a very limited game approx 30 games made with 4 coming to Australia mine is number 28

 

Game is pretty rough someone had started a restoration on it. The original photo only showed the door but thankfully it was more complete than the photo shower only thing missing is the coin slot and the glass

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All the usual stuff with these the cabinets coming apart the front door is made of ply and was coming apart cabinet was also missing the centre timber that holds the game section in place. I started by making the missing piece purely so it would all sit together as a complete game

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Then discovered it looks like it was originally painted blue hammer tone paint as under the paint was raw timber which makes the job nice and simple 99256498640ac79bdeeb0d9959791b1d.jpg

 

Cabinet was all re glued holes filled and sanded ready for paint and the front door stripped and the ply glued and clamped several times hopefully it's got to sand and paint tomorrow but I'll find out in the morning.

 

The playfield was cleaned with novus and so were the plastic rails that the coin rolls along everything else was washed adjusted and reinstalled

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Also re glued the jet onto the mech that drops the coin this was wrapped up

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Cleaned up the chrome as best I could by hand my buff is still out with my car which sucks lol. But it cleaned up pretty well, I might eventually get this redone but I'll see how it looks when it's done.

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Those backgrounds come up really well with a clean, bet that was relieving. Love to see a small video of it in action.

 

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I'll make a video once it's back together

 

 

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Came up ok still needs a piece of glass but it's in one piece and working again ff5193333d15f0a79df688a6442fdc0e.jpgfadd04cddb638b86df2e36aeb46b5414.jpga4d72000833a159b923ec446b2e21b5d.jpg

 

The switch set up is dodgy as hell and needs some updating to make it reliable but here's a video of it in action and a seperate one to show what it should do when you get the tank

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Knocked up a stand for the tank busters these are usually wall games but I don't have any walls and mounting them is far to permanent these stands are on wheels and have built in storage. Behind them

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you've definitely made the most out of the room you have......playfields on the ceiling :o

 

Yep every inch is used lol. The Backboxes on the walls double as parts cupboards, the stands have shelves built into the back aswell

 

 

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