(02-08-2023, 10:11 AM)peter scott Wrote: I can understand the desire to make an orphaned wallbox operate but I watched a program on the box last night where a complete free standing juke box was butchered as a commercial venture.
Admittedly the juke box was not particularly attractive but the complete mechanism, record set and amplifier was junked and a small bluetooth connected amplifier was substituted. The end result had no selection list and whilst the selection keys remained, they served no function.
To my view this was an act of appalling vandalism.
Peter
Yes I saw that too, it was Retro Electro Workshop on ITV 4
They went to a barn where someone had a large number of jukeboxes and pinball machines stored.
There were a few reasonably looking ones but they settled on a 1973 Seeburg CL100 Carnival
Here's a nice one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYxmVGH3Kfc
It was in a terrible state, possibly stored in that damp barn for decades, the interior was "hanging" and the chrome flaking off. I couldn't believe they paid £850 for it. It was well beyond economical repair.
As you say, what they did with it was a complete nonsense and to then price it at £1500 was a joke.
Hadn't sold after a year. I'm not surprised.
The one I linked in my video might fetch £2000, but I wouldn't pay more than £1500 for that.
A lot of jukeboxes are advertised on eBay, at silly money, but when you look down "completed listings," few sell.
This programme series started off pretty well, two weeks ago, but the visit to a transport museum this week to fix the windscreen wiper on a 1962 bus was hardly "riveting telly."
They've fixed one of those "cat clocks" on The Repair Shop.
