Bringing back to life

[chanley2007]

Always amazed how bulbs and circuits keeps working after so many years unused! Just plonked some batteries in a snowspeeder, falcon and darth destroyer and all worked!!

Chuffed!!

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[sith-smith]

These toys were incredibly well made.

My father came from an engineering background and when I was a child he worked for a toy company designing the machines that made the toys for Matchbox.

He used to repair ones that I broke or left leaking batteries in all the time and they always still worked. The troop transporter had a plastic gramophone record in it, which he repaired several times. But the complexity of some of these toys is incredible. He had a hell of job trying to repair the wing mechanism of the B-wing I bought from a carboot sale.

They really are solid toys!! 8)

 

[chanley2007]

Your right! They don't make em like they used too!

 

[kieatky]

They really are great toys. I've repaired many over the years. The most common thing is a seized motor for the battle sound (Falcon, Tie Fighters etc) and 9 times out of ten all you have to do is manually rotate the spindle a couple of times and hey presto it comes back to life, very simple fix which makes the world of difference.