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An update and request for advice on next steps please. I’ve not been idle. Apart from earning a living I’ve been fiddling with the mech every day in the hope that either repeated firing would loosen a gummed up joint or I’d be able to see where the jamming is. I’ve also fired vast quantities of plus...

Just a quick update, with not a lot to report. I’ve been continuing to fire the mechanism with mostly the same result BUT on two occasions it has spontaneously applied the brakes correctly and so completed the cycle. I wasn’t able to identify anything about those two successful cycles that was diffe...

Thank you BP. That will, be my task for tomorrow.

Thank you all for your very helpful advice. I began by looking for possible points where the mechanism could be binding. The only possibility I could identify was where the horizontal brake lever travels through the slot at the far left. There does seem to be contact between the lever and the lower ...

Ah I see what you mean! I hadn’t spotted that brief moment of spinning before it stops. OK work clothes on again tomorrow and I’ll try to track it down. Thank you.

OK. I’ve spent a happy hour in the back garden squirting copious amounts of Pro Gas releasing fluid in to the clock, governor and all the joints that seem implicated in the movement of the brake arm. I repeatedly triggered the mechanism to ensure I was reaching all the parts. No change. I then spray...

Will do!

Thanks BP.

Thank you very much BP. I will do as you suggest and report back (although possibly not by 8.30 tomorrow morning.)
Is there a useful ‘exploded diagram’ type thing somewhere that shows and labels all the parts of a machine? If not, what does a clock governor look like please?

I acquired this rather untidy machine from a friend in the pinball community. I collected it in the summer telling myself ‘that’ll make a nice project for the quiet winter months.’ Well spring is on the horizon and I still don’t have it working. The machine does most things correctly I think. It acc...

We had an interesting discussion about coin operated stereo viewers just over a year ago. I learned a lot. I notice there is a stereo viewer, in rather sad shape, in the upcoming Elephant House auction. Seeing it prompts me to say that if anyone sets about restoring this, or any other stereo viewer,...

Interesting viewer in cabinet for auction from Belgium. Description on the site reads: "BIO Cinema cabinet, fully made of metal from the period 1960-1970. After insertion of a quarter, the Braun projector plays a video by means of a timer. You can see the video through the looking glass. The fi...

Nice photo from Coppinpr. I used to own one of these and, like most things, regret ever selling it. It is a later version of the Whiting Sculptoscope. Earlier versions have appeared previously on this thread. Referring to the ultimate reference source 'Stereoscopes the first one hundred years' by th...

The depth and extent of knowledge on this forum is remarkable! Coppinpr’s and Bob’s photos of the Shanghai Kaiser Panorama style peep show are fascinating. But they raise a question...although the location appears to be the same (the artwork behind the peep boxes is the same in both pictures) the vi...

Referring to the Fraser & Hosking stereoviewer, Gameswat commented on the reel inside and explained ‘I had a couple of those low production reels by Meopta, purchased from Czechoslovakia. I think they were early 1960's judging from the sets and hairdos.’ He is quite right about the date of these...

Gameswat kindly posted some more pictures of the coin op viewer using an Australian Viewmaster clone as the viewer. One minor feature I noticed (just putting on my anorak) is that the reel in the picture (copied below) is what is known as a Viewmaster Personal Reel. You can tell this from the way th...

A huge thank you to everyone who has posted on this thread. Bob in particular has shared some fascinating pictures. I’m really enjoying seeing all these machines. The breadth and depth of member's knowledge is remarkable. A few pages back 13rebel said ‘I'm sure there will be many people on this site...

Very interesting! The Art Show viewers appear to be using a black Bakelite Tru Vue viewer, so the images will be on a continuous 35mm filmstrip. The Cinemate seems to be a variant of the Cinemate machine I posted a few pages ago. I was wrong to identify it as French, it is of course Belgian. This to...

The Australian coin op viewer described and illustrated by Bob has caused ripples of excitement among my stereoscopic friends. I showed the pictures to two of the most knowledgeable people in the field and they had never seen or heard of anything like it. They also confirm my suspicion that the view...

I've seen examples of this viewer and as BP says, the sellers are usually asking very high prices. Somewhere in 'the system' I have a Christies catalogue where one sold for the sort of big money BP mentions. This style of machine is usually built around stereoscopic transparencies in what we call 'R...