28-07-2024, 06:58 AM
As is often the case, you can solve one problem and then find you've caused another.
I did.
A few days after sorting out the carousel motor, I noticed that some selections weren't being cancelled after playing and when the jukebox then had played any selections in positions before it on the carousel, it would play that one again.
I noticed the "hammer" that returned the pin was missing it.
I also noticed there was nearly half an inch of play in the carousel.
This meant when it stopped in any position, it would either lean by that much, due to the collective weight of the records, either one way or the other, as 45s can be of slightly different weight depending on the thickness or density of the vinyl. So around a quarter of the records in one section of the carousel had this problem.
This would affect where the hammers stopped on the wobble plate.
So I slackened off the motor's bolts and pushed it forward a couple of millimetres to better engage the sprocket. This removed the play in the carousel, I was then able to centre the gripper arm using the adjustment screw and then it was working perfectly again.
"You'd expect something that's only 47 years old, to not give you that much trouble."
For those unfamiliar with vinyl jukeboxes, I made this video over a decade ago, which shows how they work. (you'll be relieved that I neither appear nor speak in it. The information is in the write-up below the video).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=morLkJDxWyg&t=44s
As they say, the proof of the pudding.
I'd watched the film Mannequin on TV a week ago. It's a remake of the Ava Gardner film, "One Touch of Venus" I've got that on a DVD.
I've seen Mannequin several times and have always liked it. This same recording, which was used in the film, was used to accompany clips of scenes from the film on a YouTube video.
A combination of a good tune and a good film has meant that video has received over forty-five million hits. Or maybe that it was just because Kim Cattrall was at her best?
She was 68 this year. doesn't time fly?
I saw there was a copy of the 45rpm record on eBay which was quite cheap. So I said to myself, "What the heck!" and bought it. "It'll stay in this jukebox until it becomes my least favourite," then changed for something else. But that might be for some time.
The ticking noise at the beginning of the video is the clock on the wall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2iCkF69EG8
I did.
A few days after sorting out the carousel motor, I noticed that some selections weren't being cancelled after playing and when the jukebox then had played any selections in positions before it on the carousel, it would play that one again.
I noticed the "hammer" that returned the pin was missing it.
I also noticed there was nearly half an inch of play in the carousel.
This meant when it stopped in any position, it would either lean by that much, due to the collective weight of the records, either one way or the other, as 45s can be of slightly different weight depending on the thickness or density of the vinyl. So around a quarter of the records in one section of the carousel had this problem.
This would affect where the hammers stopped on the wobble plate.
So I slackened off the motor's bolts and pushed it forward a couple of millimetres to better engage the sprocket. This removed the play in the carousel, I was then able to centre the gripper arm using the adjustment screw and then it was working perfectly again.
"You'd expect something that's only 47 years old, to not give you that much trouble."
For those unfamiliar with vinyl jukeboxes, I made this video over a decade ago, which shows how they work. (you'll be relieved that I neither appear nor speak in it. The information is in the write-up below the video).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=morLkJDxWyg&t=44s
As they say, the proof of the pudding.
I'd watched the film Mannequin on TV a week ago. It's a remake of the Ava Gardner film, "One Touch of Venus" I've got that on a DVD.
I've seen Mannequin several times and have always liked it. This same recording, which was used in the film, was used to accompany clips of scenes from the film on a YouTube video.
A combination of a good tune and a good film has meant that video has received over forty-five million hits. Or maybe that it was just because Kim Cattrall was at her best?
She was 68 this year. doesn't time fly?
I saw there was a copy of the 45rpm record on eBay which was quite cheap. So I said to myself, "What the heck!" and bought it. "It'll stay in this jukebox until it becomes my least favourite," then changed for something else. But that might be for some time.
The ticking noise at the beginning of the video is the clock on the wall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2iCkF69EG8
