I'm feeling quite pleased myself, as I've cured a problem with one of my two jukeboxes, which I've been putting off resolving.
Of the four electric motors, the one that turns the record carousel was running slow. This would frequently activate one of the three trip switches that protect different parts of the machine, this one's the mechanical.
It was just a question of pushing in the re-set button when it stopped, but it might trip out again at any time. I was concerned that perhaps one day it wouldn't trip out and I'd be facing an ever bigger problem.
This motor is a complete pain to access.
The front of the machine has to be taken off to get some light in there.
A question of removing the small panel at the bottom of the back of the machine, then lying full length on my side and with a spinner, to feel around for the three bolts that secure the motor to the chassis. These are impossible to see.
There's no way you could get any sort of conventional spanner on many of the bolts in a jukebox, so a set of "spinners" in your toolbox is essential.
This is all you can see of the motor.
They were very well, built nearly fifty years ago, as they were subjected to heavy use.
But now they are made of "unobtainium."
This is the usual problem with slow running motors. The commutator gets scored over decades by dirt getting between it and the brushes.
This can be hard to remove. "But there's a way."
I put the spindle in my electric drill and locked that in the vice on my workbench.
Then I wound a thin strip of emery paper lengthways around half a pencil. Turned on the drill and held the pencil against the commutator as it turned. A few changes of paper and all scoring was removed in a couple of minutes. I scored the insulating dividers between the segments of the commutator with the tip of a Stanley knife. They must not be proud of them.
A bit of "a lube job" and it was ready to go back in (after I had tested it!).
Putting it back was a bigger pain than taking it out. Particularly when you are eighty-four!
A question of sticking the bolts on the end of the spinner with some Blue-tac, (they still fell off a few times).
Anyway, job done!
The nearest jukebox servicing company is about 50 miles away. They would have wanted to take it back to their workshop and raise it to a "workable height." I believe this would have cost me well over £200.
In the end, it cost me 59p for the sheet of emery paper.
Quite pleased with my work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgENyDZ5ags
Of the four electric motors, the one that turns the record carousel was running slow. This would frequently activate one of the three trip switches that protect different parts of the machine, this one's the mechanical.
It was just a question of pushing in the re-set button when it stopped, but it might trip out again at any time. I was concerned that perhaps one day it wouldn't trip out and I'd be facing an ever bigger problem.
This motor is a complete pain to access.
The front of the machine has to be taken off to get some light in there.
A question of removing the small panel at the bottom of the back of the machine, then lying full length on my side and with a spinner, to feel around for the three bolts that secure the motor to the chassis. These are impossible to see.
There's no way you could get any sort of conventional spanner on many of the bolts in a jukebox, so a set of "spinners" in your toolbox is essential.
This is all you can see of the motor.
They were very well, built nearly fifty years ago, as they were subjected to heavy use.
But now they are made of "unobtainium."
This is the usual problem with slow running motors. The commutator gets scored over decades by dirt getting between it and the brushes.
This can be hard to remove. "But there's a way."
I put the spindle in my electric drill and locked that in the vice on my workbench.
Then I wound a thin strip of emery paper lengthways around half a pencil. Turned on the drill and held the pencil against the commutator as it turned. A few changes of paper and all scoring was removed in a couple of minutes. I scored the insulating dividers between the segments of the commutator with the tip of a Stanley knife. They must not be proud of them.
A bit of "a lube job" and it was ready to go back in (after I had tested it!).
Putting it back was a bigger pain than taking it out. Particularly when you are eighty-four!
A question of sticking the bolts on the end of the spinner with some Blue-tac, (they still fell off a few times).
Anyway, job done!
The nearest jukebox servicing company is about 50 miles away. They would have wanted to take it back to their workshop and raise it to a "workable height." I believe this would have cost me well over £200.
In the end, it cost me 59p for the sheet of emery paper.
Quite pleased with my work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgENyDZ5ags
