Green Ray Television restoration

[badpenny]

Strewth, it's Mertle & Gerty!
How are they keeping these days? They were the good times had by all.

[tim575]

Interesting photo, another confirmation of side panel art, and example of one with the Globe on top. It seems to have writing on the Globe instead of a "?" seen on some restorations, but I can't tell what it says, maybe Television? I had wondered if the Globe was original to these or an operator add on, either way I see now they were present in at least one original placement. I have a set of repro cards in the works for mine, taking a long time as it is a manual process one card at a time with an antique letterpress and needed test runs first for press setup on such thick stock. I had restored the coin mech and card dispense to the original design for large penny and very thick cards, testing it so far on hand cut blank 1/16" matt board stand in cards works well.

[bryans fan]

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This is as close as I can get, plus adjustments for contrast and clarity.

[tim575]

I had newly printed fortune cards made for my Green Ray, 6 bricks worth using 5 fortunes from known original cards. These are 1/16" thick like the original and were printed using an antique letterpress printer. That completed the restoration project and it is now on display in my game room. An updated video was also made of it in operation.

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[bryans fan]

FANTASTIC! What a great job you have made of restoring this wonderful machine. Thank you for sharing, you should be very proud!