New Jukebox!

Panotaker

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Last Sunday I went out and bought the Ultimate Mantique, a jukebox! I don't know crap about fixing jukeboxes, but I am learning fast. I bought a reproduction of a 1946 Wurlitzer 1015 "The Bubbler" jukebox. Although it is a reproduction, it is still over 20 years old and needs a rebuild. When I bought it, the only thing that worked was 2 lights, (it has Five), and the bubble tubes all worked. Since I figured the bubble tubes would be the most expensive thing to replace, I went ahead and bought it. Yesterday I got all the lights working, and the color changing tubes working, so at least it now looks cool since cosmetically, everything works. Now I got to get the 45 rpm record changer working. The changer has a million parts in it from gears, to springs, to motors, and they all have to work perfectly together. To say it is complicated is an understatement, but at least for now I have an expensive night light.

I cleaned out all the old grease and greased all the gears with Superlube and oiled everything i could see that needs oiling. For some reason the gripper arm doesnt go down all the way to click the K8 relay, and the thing that hits the K7 relay some times hits it and some time it doesnt. I think the gripper arm needs some kind of adjustment to make it go down all the way, but I haven't figured out where it is at yet. Anybody got any tips? Thanks.
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Last Sunday I went out and bought the Ultimate Mantique, a jukebox! I don't know crap about fixing jukeboxes, but I am learning fast. I bought a reproduction of a 1946 Wurlitzer 1015 "The Bubbler" jukebox. Although it is a reproduction, it is still over 20 years old and needs a rebuild. When I bought it, the only thing that worked was 2 lights, (it has Five), and the bubble tubes all worked. Since I figured the bubble tubes would be the most expensive thing to replace, I went ahead and bought it. Yesterday I got all the lights working, and the color changing tubes working, so at least it now looks cool since cosmetically, everything works. Now I got to get the 45 rpm record changer working. The changer has a million parts in it from gears, to springs, to motors, and they all have to work perfectly together. To say it is complicated is an understatement, but at least for now I have an expensive night light.

I cleaned out all the old grease and greased all the gears with Superlube and oiled everything i could see that needs oiling. For some reason the gripper arm doesnt go down all the way to click the K8 relay, and the thing that hits the K7 relay some times hits it and some time it doesnt. I think the gripper arm needs some kind of adjustment to make it go down all the way, but I haven't figured out where it is at yet. Anybody got any tips? Thanks.
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Holy shit that looks beautiful. I am sure Ken Layton will be along to offer you guidance any moment.
 
The Wurlitzer "One More Time" reproduction jukebox was issued in two versions: a 45 rpm vinyl one and a CD one.

You want to talk to John Robertson at John's Jukes in Canada at www.flippers.com

Also, hop over to the jukebox forum at www.phonoland.com

I have talked to John over the phone a few times and he is really helpful, but I hate wasting his time. I'm sure he has a lot of better things to do than to talk to me. I don't want to talk to him too much and screw up a good thing so I figured I would come here for advice. I did download his manual, but the manual he has is for the K99 amp and I have the old I84 or I86 amp(can't remember the number). I got the parts manual too, but it doesn't show a break down of the gear mechanism. I don't want to take the assembly apart and have a spring go flying across the room and then not be able to figure out where it goes.
 
Well my jukebox is all fixed up. I worked on it for about a week degreasing the gears trying to get the changer to work, but had no luck. I found a guy in Austin that works on jukeboxes and he got it all fixed for me and now it looks and plays like new. One of the main problems was that the service switch on the computer was bad. It would work in service mode, but not when you put it on play mode. He didn't have another switch, so he just bypassed the switch and left it in play mode by installing a couple of jumpers where the switch was. One of these days I will solder on a new switch. It also had a bunch of mechanical problems and electrical problems, but he got everything working for me. I then filled it up with nothing but 50's and early 60's rock and roll and doo-wop songs and had to print out all the title strips. I shot a video of it in action and you can see it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0NTpqjJZ4w
 
My local Dairy Queen restaurants had 3 of these OMT 45 rpm jukeboxes installed on location. They did not hold up very well. Constant problems with the electronics. Finally, about three months ago, the franchise owner removed all of them and sold them. He was frustrated by the constant troubles and decided to get rid of them.
 
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