Finally managed to snag one of these great machines. Machine is in wonderful original condition with limited use over last 20 years.

Cabinet is in good condition and surprisingly the original canopy (which on these machines is normally damaged) is also in superb condition. Some limited tweaking got the machine working as it should. Supplied with significant quantity of fortune cards.

During the course of the year I will service the complete mechanism, replace the right hand rubber, fabricate a coin box lid and possibly repaint the green/red side panels. I will update those developments within this thread.

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Wow your Crystal Gazer looks quite fascinating-never seen one before.

Now completed full restoration of this machine which was a very satisfying experience. The important aspects were to correct improper operation of Grandma; repaint the painted sides and carry out various resto issues.

The Grandma skeleton was completely disassembled.

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Reassembly and adjustment of the function turnbuckles x8 required some patience and perseverance. A repro rubber right hand was fitted.

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The dispensing mechanism and switch assembly was dismantled, lubed and serviced.

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A new power cord installed including grounding to the skeleton, dispensing unit and transformer. A friend in the aviation industry let me have a jar of 'avigel' which is tremendous for sealing joins/ties on wax lacing tape.

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A lid per original specs was fabricated for the coin box.

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The coin meter was inoperative and the lens appeared it had been hit with a soldering iron. Cleared grit between 3 and 4 and fabricated a new curved lens.

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Repainted the cab sides - quite an easy stencil job!

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Final pics. The machine is now operating correctly although I believe the 115v drive motor is struggling due to age and wear. I am exploring options to resolve.

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Finally always a nice finish to freshen up the keys.

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Decided to add some background music to the machine using an mp3 trigger board and speaker located behind Grandma and totally reversible.
I chose an itunes album named Music for Fortune Tellers by Rune Tarot with the specific track the album name. Itunes music is in m4A format which will not play on an mp3 player but fortunately there is a site 'cloudconvert' which offers a free conversion download. Link to youtube:

Since restoring the machine last year I have found that at times Grandma was problematic in successfully grabbing the fortune card and placing it in the cauldron whilst in other functions the mechanism was occasionally binding and halting the operation.

Argh!! I hate it when machines do not do what they are meant to do.

Anyhow spent a couple of days this week examining Grandma in skeletal form to observe mechanical impediments. I found part of the mech was binding on the skeleton shroud which sits beneath the clothing, a link for the head movement was binding and the movement of the right hand required adjustment.
So happy that it now operates 100% all the time.