Greyhound Crane Machine

Mwood

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I am looking at buying a Greyhound Crane Machine that works but has trouble going right. I am going to look at it in a couple of days. Any ideas what I should be looking at for the issue? Does it sould like a bad connection issue? Are parts for these hard to come by? Any information will be greatly appreciated.
 
If it's having "trouble" going right, vs not going right at all, I'd first be looking for a mechanical issue with the trolly, bent rails, broken wheels, etc.. Next would be connections and/or broken wires in the trolly harness, then possibly a bad switch in the joystick.

Greyhound used solid state relays to drive the motors, if there was a board/relay issue, you usually get no movement in one, or more, directions. Solid state relays generally work or don't.

Greyhound specific parts are not readily available new, but there's little to worry about. The circuit boards use common parts. The trolly motors rarely fail, and claw coils are available from most distrib's.

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I am looking at buying a Greyhound Crane Machine that works but has trouble going right. I am going to look at it in a couple of days. Any ideas what I should be looking at for the issue? Does it sould like a bad connection issue? Are parts for these hard to come by? Any information will be greatly appreciated.

parts are kinda hard to find, theres not much new if thats what you are asking.

could just eb a bad switch on the joystick( happ still makes the joystick btw) or could be a motor, wiring, loose connection on one of the pcbs, etc.. Kind fo hard to say witrhout you actually having the thing right there to test.


If you can get it cheap, pick it up! Im sure we could help you through fixing it.
 
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