Hello!
So I found a great deal on a fully working Treasure Chest Claw Machine from United Textiles. The guy plugged it in and it played perfectly. Came with keys and an operators manual so I thought great! This is awesome. I was smiling ear to ear. My face actually hurt after a while from smiling. My daughter was going to poop her pants with excitement.
I’ve got 3 hernias, so I was nervous about getting it into the back of the truck. For a fleeting moment I thought “maybe I ought to try to stand this up”, but that seemed impossible for me to lift, so I thought well, it’s a game, it’s build to be moved around, it’ll be ok, I’lll just make the 2 and a half hour drive carefully. Wrong I was. Got home and the entire carriage had fallen down. Ok, no biggie, open it up and pop it back into place. Keys don’t actually work in the locks…drill those out. Ok, it’s open. Pop the carriage back up, but wait…here’s a shield for the carriage that fell off. Ok, I can see where that goes. Then I see a large rubber O-ring sitting there that appears to have snapped or split. Ok…I have zero clue where that goes but I’m guessing it’s important.
I do have another larger Treasure Chest sitting here that has a dead board, so I’m thinking I can maybe open that one up and see if I spot it in a an obvious place and maybe even rob an intact O-ring from that game, but figured I would ask here first and see if anybody could say, oh yeah, that goes right there. And also maybe if anyone knows where to get a replacement because I assume this one isn’t supposed to be split like this.
Lesson learned, bring someone besides my wife to help lift and never transport a claw machine on it’s back. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I’m one O-ring away from fulfilling the dream! Thanks.
