BROKEN 1971 Nintendo Periscope - Trying to FIX

[@samuelwilliams8575]

MMV fan club. Samuel Williams. This is a great fix. Much more involved than it 1st appeared.

[@LauraG-zr4qg]

Mmv fanclub- Laura Kelly. Didn't know Nintendo made periscopes, turned out pretty amazing! Well done Vince, another fab fix 👍

[@jgodfrey]

MMV Fan Club. Jody Godfrey Another enjoyable fix to a great piece of retro tech - keep ‘em coming Vince !

[@JamesPotts]

Somehow missed this when it originally "aired", but oh my goodness would I have loved that toy as a child! Let's be honest, I'd love it now.

[@TheBluzeman]

I'm pretty new to MMV so seeing this for the first time. I had one of these when I was 10 years old. Haven't thought about it in years until I saw this!

[@adsjones1984]

MMV Fan club. Leon Jones, watched this episode when you first posted then watched again as you don't just fix things but you entertain people, you give me an escape in the evenings. 👍👍👍👍

[@bengelman2600]

Brilliant toy. Used to make periscopes out of long boxes as a kid. Is the frisbey on the roof? Yes, yes it is.

[@crashbando2561]

Same man

[@martinda7446]

If nobody told you already it is simplicity itself to anneal the spring steel. Just heat the part to about 300 (just around where it turns dark red - or check for exact times and temps for spring steel) degrees or so and leave it to cool..It will be soft and ductile again...But that was brilliant..Well done.

[@babybeard5222]

Ur prof is mad

[@JoshuaJonah]

I do small engines, I repair recoil springs at least once a week. It's even better to just bend it when it's hot.

[@wjhjr1415]

Yep. Done it.

[@InMeShed247]

MMV Fan Club, Steve Murphy, absolutely loved this fix and something I have never seen before.

[@starscreamsghost148]

MMV fan club. Wesley-james WackyJwallace Chabot. Dear Vince, I have watched your videos for at least a year now, and you never disappoint, even in your failures. I have an Atari 2600, a colecovision and a french Canadian speak and spell, all in need of repair. I hope one day I will be able to fix them, and watching your videos sure makes this day seem close. Thank you.

[@HavingFunRepairs]

Older toys are fantastics. I had a few hand-me-downs from the 60s/70s era when I was a kid in the 80s. I remember playing with them till they broke, then trying to repair even when I was young. Pretty sure I made a mess of it. Enjoyed the video!

[@NOWThatsRichy]

This is an excellent fix, that's a really properly built Japanese toy with metal gears etc, made back when things were made properly, not like the newer stuff with flimsy plastic bits that just break off! Although the concept is quite complex, it's a solution to a problem that wasn't there in the first place, it could have been made so the telescopic arm could have been extended manually, reminded me of those powered telescopic car radio aerials people had in the 1980s.

[@rockabillycatz]

I had one in 72 I was 10 yrs old loved it can’t remember what ever happened to it,brought back great memories for me,thankyou vince 👍👍👍

[@alexb151]

I love that all my fav KZbinrs know each other. Want a crossover with Elliot, Vince and Ashens

[@mr_spacedout713]

MMV Fan Club - Kyle Truxton - Thanks Vince for all the joy your videos bring to me. Truly inspired me to give it a go around the house and I’m truly impressed with what I’m able to fix when i put my mind to it. Thanks again! Cheers!

[@JeepCherokee4000]

MMV fan club - Aleksandar Ignjatovic - sweet restoration, and a nice gift from Eliot. I hope to see more vintage gaming pieces restored here. Greetings from Serbia!

[@MrStereoify]

MMV Fan Club, Marcel Makowski, this is one of my favorite videos of Vince's. Such an interesting item, a nice fix and cleanup.

[@MizuhoChan]

MMV fan club - Andrew Lee - Honestly, that looks amazing and a great solution to get it working again.

[@terminationshock1356]

MMV Fan club, Termination Shock. Awesome video as always Vince! You keep me company while I'm far from home. Thank you!

[@MegaPanthor]

MMV fan club, Phillip Harrison, I’m always amazed at how well the items clean up. Great work on the repair.

[@astig0827]

MMV Fan Club - Paolo Lumba - Great fix Vince. Your channel is very entertaining and i am learning many things about fixing electronics and other stuff. This is definitely a channel that deserves a million plus subscriber..

[@TheAxelay]

I could only imagine how much a Nintendo periscope would be worth?! But this item goes beyond the money threshold because just how unique it really is as well. One of a million find here. That black spring is iconic of virtually of alot of late 70's to 1980's wind up toys. Truly a genius bi-product as well but extremely erratic and temperamental to handle...I remember taking them apart via wind up motor car engines!! Damn thing made my 8 year old arm and hands twist & turn, you can also cut yourself with them as well!!! Awesome video.

[@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co]

Oh, they will cut: I have a small scar on my chin from where one got me as a child.

[@christianwarkus5596]

MMV Fan club - Christian Blues - I love your videos and I've learned so much. Thanks for the great work!

[@eliuth8712]

MMV Fan club. Eliuth Montiel. This repair videos are awesome!

[@MrTurtlebar]

MMV Fan Club Nigel S Massive thanks for the videos Vince. They have really inspired me to try fixing things. Love the variety of the items you fix and the engaging way you present in the videos. I always look forward to the next upload! Keep up the good work!

[@ZonicMirage]

That's really cool; truly a testament to Gunpei Yokoi's design prowess.

[@gizmo1252000]

just use a small blowtorch to Annealing the end of the spring steel to make it soft .so you can put a new bend in it , job done

[@jasonudall8614]

Or perhaps the hot air station ? This was almost painful... BTW wonder if just the soldering would anneal. 350 to 370 centigrade?

[@gizmo1252000]

@@jasonudall8614 heat it up using a small handheld blowtorch ,same one cooks use ,until the metal turns orange and the spring steel will be annealed . you have to ,at least heat it to the point where the metal glows . so a hot air station would not work or soldering iron .

[@bobuilt10]

Warm the end of the spring until it glows on a gas hob and let it cool slowly, that should aneal it and allow you to form the end.

[@douglasharrington3003]

If you bring spring steel to a glow it looses spring

[@thomasesr]

Blowtorch? I use a gas stove on my kitchen for that

[@cameronschneiter949]

MMV Fan club, Cameron Schneiter, Love your videos. Got me over my fear of soldering my own repairs, thank you.

[@buzzboy1000]

LOVED this! I've been watching your channel for quite a few years and this has to be one of my favourite fixes. Made the year before I was born. Nice one, Vince!

[@StezStixFix]

Very very jealous of this, Vince. It just looks so incredibly well designed and manufactured. What a fantastic item! And slug tape to the rescue once again! 👍

[@michaelhuey4187]

Scrub-a-dub-dub, Our Mate Vince cleaned it in the tub! If you ever want to bend the broken off part of the spring, use a torch to heat it up till it’s red and allow it to air cool. This will remove the spring on the end. 👍

[@Strontiumdog2000ad]

MMV fan club. Heath Walford, Been a fan of fix it vids a long time and Vince was one of the first , I even picked up a few rip n tricks along the way 😎👍

[@SamHenryGaming]

MMV Fan Club, Sam Henry. Always love watching your videos, they have inspired me to expand my electronics repair knowledge. I can repair a significant amount more than I could before I started watching. Keep it up! 👍🏻

[@willproctor7301]

Full Metal Gear :) Always a sight for sore eyes. Well done Vince

[@pegtooth2006]

👍 MMV Fan Club. Peg Tooth. It is hot today! Vince you have a great 'dépistage' technique. (Fault finding) You certainly areone of the most tenacious repair KZbinrs £ for pound. I get a lot of satisfaction in watching your presentations. Keep it up, Vince!

[@ventrue6516]

Very ahead of its time, for 50 years old toy.

[@BottleJam]

MMV Fan Club Dave Boatwright - loved the video fixing this. I have never seen one before. Keep up the good work, Vince!

[@andersmmvfc.8376]

Ooh that's a awsome toy! That is exactly how a toy should be! Brilliant for a couple of hour before it breaks and end up in a box :) 50 years later a man on the other side of the world fix it! Thank you extremely entertaining!

[@Retroornew]

MMV Fan club, Tim Ball, cracking little repair

I had some tape measures apart and the ~2m long ones had similar length spring inside

[@mikehensley78]

that nintendo periscope is awesome! that's from back when kids played in the dirt with cars and cap-guns. i didn't realize nintendo made toys before video games. great fix-it video!

[@TheBlueRoseKnight]

MMV Fan Club. Always cool to see what a company made before they got well known. Keep up the good work!

[@andersmmvfc.8376]

Pleas contact me or emma in the fanclub!!

[@TheBlueRoseKnight]

@Rob Lynn I'm aware. Just didn't know about the things in between...

[@dablakh0l193]

You can use the spring from the inside of a tape measure that has the same width. I've repaired similar devices and it lasts a long time.

[@Ewoorg]

Yes this is similar construction as tape measure 👍🏼

[@dadwillfixit1907]

MMV FAN CLUB david Razey great video Vince keep up the great work

[@willman0834]

MMV fan club. Lee Williamson, Hi Vince been watching from the beginning love the new quick fix format with other youtube fixers. I also enjoyed watching the ministry of sound speaker video you put out last week. its brilliant how far technically you have come from the beginning keep up the good work Lee

[@derickservina6187]

MMV fan club, Derick Servina, thanks for the great video. 👍🏾

[@stricm3]

MMV fan club, Michael Strickland. Great video!

[@IamPedroUK]

MMV Fan Club, Peter Ransom, awesome fix of a wonderful rare piece of history 😄 keep them coming bud, your channel literally keeps me going ❤️

[@patprop74]

You have to hand it to toymakers back then, they really were clever as heck! making things simple as possible yet working right, all that with no microcontrollers all mechanical, Fantastic isn't it.

[@chrisred87]

Nice one Vince Great Fix. I love seeing you fix stuff that is fantastically made in the first place. The only thing I would have done you didn't is used rivets on the spring.

[@crazzywolfie]

the spring is made of spring steel. you pretty much always need to heat it with a torch to make and sharp changes to the shape. even a little hand held butane torch would get the job done. it is what i use when repairing an odd ball pull start recoil assembly.

[@N1ickem4n]

MMV Fanclub. I'm Nicklas Hjelm, as my username already tells you 😁 But hey Vince! I get so happy every time I see a new video from you. I watch them all, the longer vids, the better! Keep it up, ur doing a great job!

[@unitedfools3493]

Great video again. Small thing: I'd have used home brand dish washing liquid or hand soap, rather than shower gel, due to cost, but they're all surfactants. And if you didn't you can save a lot of work by soaking for a while.

[@jondough76]

What a neat little slice of Nintendo history.

[@1blisslife]

This reminded me of the Nintendo duck hunt mechanical shooting game with a projector(before the NES version even) from the 70's as well. Just like this mechanical toy periscope! There's videos here on youtube of it btw. Awesome fix on this toy & good call :)

[@jdearing46]

What an awesome find! We used to make these things as kids to spy our neighbors. Many a day we solved the mystery it saved the world. Used our imaginations and had great,epic adventures. I'm thinking you might just find a replacement spring for it in a different toy from the same time frame. Lots of toys used the same parts back then.

[@YoshMaster]

I looooooove those old Nintendo toys!!! So well made!

[@chiopas11]

MMV Fan club, Edvinas Festeris, great video as well as all Your videos 😁

[@jamiemitchell4660]

MMV Fan Club, Jamie Allan Mitchell, you have inspired me to fix items I would of chucked out and love your videos been a subscriber for years, keep up the good work 👌

[@TheFalcro1234]

I would have been 7 the year this was made I would have loved a toy like this. excellent work brilliant idea for the spring repair

[@maka5955]

Common measuring tape have same spring. Also you can use torch to soft metal if you need.

[@DEmma1972]

MMVFC I think its obvious to Vince what is going down in the club today. Good luck people

[@tphillips9340]

MMV fan club timothy j. phillips Vincent I love watching you fix stuff!!!

[@Shadow_Lifeman]

Have the same Pokeball marble toy from when I was a kid. Really loved it and collecting the different marbles.

[@TC-tn9tb]

i thought i was getting on a bit at 40, but then vince pulls out a toy thats nearly 10 years older than me. amazing how it's survived for so long.

[@JonPadfield]

Nice video Vince. What a fantastic toy! Would have loved this as a kid.

[@sihaynes]

MMV fan club, Simon Haynes Fantastic as always vince 😃

[@ProjectPlatinum]

THIS IS SUCH AN OLDIEEEEEEE, EXCELLENT WORK

[@ciscoponch67]

Great job, Vince!!! Brilliant as always!!! It wouldnt have beat my Star Trek Tricorder toy from the same year, but I still would have wanted it!!!

[@KieranSymes]

MMV fan club Kieran Symes. Love the channel Vince 👌

[@davidpearn]

MMV Fan Club- David Pearn. Loving the new fixit series Vince. Keep up the good work....

[@andersmmvfc.8376]

Can not find the comment in the fan club.

[@ellensburgamplifier]

For some reason, I remember this periscope in a movie as a kid but can't place it. Thank you Vince for another great video.

[@chronikoolgrowz5526]

Yes.. this periscope made an appearance in 'Hunt for the Red October' I believe.. :P

[@TheStanHill]

Elliot has the coolest toys and soon will have the coolest cottage in whole Jersey.

[@mrjsv4935]

Cool toy and the raising & lowering mechanism principal brings car power antennas in mind. I recall seeing them repaired at least in Mercedessource and Eric the Car Guy KZbin channels :)

[@Jack-nb1zx]

So many brick walls in my youth and never knowing what was on the other side...

[@MrTarmonbarry]

And Pink Floyd had nothing to do with it ))))

[@myspringitguy3226]

Nice video. Its crazy seeing how much your skills have improved since I started watching your channel.

[@aNewJesus]

please consider adding retrobrite to the process for these kinds of trying to fix videos. makes the end so much more satisfying

[@mickeyripper6976]

Could've heated the end of the spring red hot to anneal it, then bent it and dipped in water to return some ridgidity.

[@willproctor7301]

This is the way to go, slightly shorter spring but would work.

[@johncarter9399]

No need to heat treat the last bit bent inside the groove. Just annealing it at the end would have worked.

[@ZeceFackler]

@@johncarter9399 Water could make it more brittle as well but I agree.

[@MrTarmonbarry]

Brilliant simplicity using a tape measure to raise and lower the periscope

[@midnight80090]

I loved the whole video don't get me wrong but the best part was at the end when you were so excited to see it working and going up and down. I imagine just as excited as the kid who got this in the 70s. Great work, mate!

[@squallneko5004]

Well done in getting it close to being perfectly fixed. I doubt Elliot will be able to do as great as you. I have never seen one of those devices before. Anyway great job.

[@stephenjones5079]

Very interesting fix for such an unusual item. Prices for the periscope have been going up and down recently. Great video.

[@MrMarshmelloBoi]

What a reallly old and rare item the Nintendo Periscope is.

[@malbowsier]

MMV, Simon Brill. Another cracking video. Keep it up!

[@samuelfellows6923]

15:24 - Sounds like your bath tap is power assisted with a shower pump - our main bathroom shower is pump assisted 😀

[@kiphakes]

I laughed so hard when it creaked open for the first time.. LOVE IT!

[@Mymatevince]

Cheers Kip 😁👍

[@jordanmillraney5481]

@Kip Hakes How did you comment this 5 days ago when the video is 3 days ago?

[@kiphakes]

@@jordanmillraney5481 Vince's Patreons see the 'Trying to Fix' videos before the rest of the world.

[@GadgetUK164]

Nice fix! I wouldn't have expected that tape (with solder) to work - great that it did! =D

[@Mymatevince]

Thanks Chris 👍

[@rodp2310]

Really nice gadget. Wonder if they sold any of these to golf spectators as a posh alternative to the cardboard ones often seen at US Open etc. rather than just ‘toy’. Great fix Vince. 👍

[@Mythcr]

I find each of these videos interesting and entertaining this video marks a piece of history of nintendo and look very odd to use, keep up the good work Vince

[@davidgray9195]

👍 mmv fan club. Dave gray. Love your videos. Watch every one. 👍🙂

[@ToxoRetro]

This... is... amazing! Thank you Vince and Elliot. There's something kind of Game And Watch/Gameboy original (aka DMG) about the design. It also looks like Nintendo were trying to branch out from it's ancient routes of card game manufacturing (such as Hanafuda/Koikoi (sorry if they're spelt incorrectly), prior to the Famicom/NES and Gameboy.

[@darrenleddy]

This will be because it was designed by the genius that was Gunpei Yokoi who went on to design the Game & Watch and Game Boy systems.

[@dhewitt2514]

The dreaded frogs! 😭 that switch is a very neat design, simple but very clever

[@crazyivan030983]

Electro mechanical repairs are the best :D maybe because I am a noob (or even less) in the world of proper electronics :D greetings from Poland :)

[@SireSquish]

That plastic view port piece looks very similar in size to a standard microscope slide. I'd imagine a nice glass replacement would be a good upgrade as part of the restoration process.

[@j0hnf_uk]

Nice fix. The end of the steel spring could have easily been enealed by heating it until it's cherry red on a gas stove, (for instance), then allowed to cool, which would release the brittle/tension in it as a result of being, 'work hardened.' But your fix was ingenious, all the same.

[@StromboliKicks]

your enthusiasm was contagious in this one! loved it!

[@therestorationofdrwho1865]

This intrigued me, because I had absolutely no idea what this was until you folded out the section you look through. Lol! Love things like this though, now I wish I had one to repair haha

[@andersmmvfc.8376]

Nice to hear your pressure pump working still!

[@Mymatevince]

It sure is 👍🤣

[@nameless5413]

i think Vince liked the periscope because its mechanical thing, there is alot to be said about feeling of physical things books, toys records, floppy discs etc.

[@yinyangyt8749]

Your fixing skills are super helpful

[@hervegabet]

Great , a piece of nintendo history saved