Repairing a Takara Pocket Theater Keychain

 

 

Keychain

I found this rare keychain on EBay, I have never seen an animated keychain like this before and it is really cool. Sadly it did not work, the lever does not engage the clockwork mechanism. The seller offered to ship another one he had as well, so I have two keychains that do not work. This may seem silly, but I had a plan. I will repair the mechanism and have a fully working toy. A quick search on google about repairing gears showed an Instructable where a person used steel epoxy to repair a gear missing teeth. http://www.instructables.com/id/Broken-Gear-Repair/

I ordered some JB Weld from Amazon while waiting for the keychains to arrive.

When the keychains arrived, I disassembled them easily as it was held together by three screws and tested the gears. The outside of the gear box seemed okay, but it would not engage at all.

 

Opening the gearbox shows a ratcheting gear that was not turning at all.

A closer look shows a small crack which means that it would never work.

I hoped that some of the epoxy weld would fix this problem.

 

It definitly fixed the problem, a pair of locking pliers was needed to rewind the spring.

 

 

This led to another problem being found, the winding gear has a crack that prevents winding. I used more epoxy to try to fix the problem and hope for the best. I used a starburst wrapper to prevent any possibility that I would accidentally glue it to the base. This would hopefully make a temporary fix till I can find a new gear.

 

The crack only allows the lever to be pulled back halfway, but it does work as shown in the video.

This is a decent enough fix for now and I will revisit this if I find a replacement gear.

 

 

 

 

 

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