Seeburg Wurlitzer Rockola Repair Services You Can Trust Since 1995
Reliable Repairs
Seeburg Wurlitzer Rockola Repair Services You Can Trust Since 1995
Reliable Repairs
Reliable Repairs
Reliable Repairs
Most repairs are done within a few days after being received and shipped within a week to meet customer satisfaction
Fair and reasonably priced service with online support readily provided
Thorough disassembly and cleaning of all parts, precise adjustments and comprehensive testing performed
A selection assembly (pin bank) that hasn't been refurbished can cause problems with selections being replayed repeatedly or being passed over after being selected. I completely disassemble and hand clean armatures, contact and grounding plates, repair broken wires and replace burnt coils. Easy removal and reinstallation instructions provided.
After decades of use, the contacts on an electrical selector (keyboard) can become blackened with grime that results in entire selections to not be played. I completely disassemble and hand clean all moving and stationary contacts and adjust the snap & hold switches.
Does your Seeburg pick up a record, clamp it to the turntable and immediately return it to the record holder without playing it? Typically this is symptomatic of a dirty clutch. I remove, disassemble and thoroughly clean all parts. After reinstallation, your jukebox will play like new. (There are other causes as well so please talk with me.)
Wall Boxes allow remote selections on your jukebox. I clean and adjust all contacts within the wall box, clean jukebox selection receiver stepper and replace the capacitors.
I'm located in southeastern Pennsylvania. To find service techs in your area check the list on the Always Jukin' and the AHJBS websites. Also post your question on FaceBook Marketplace for jukeboxes and checkout YouTube. A maintenance manual from Victory Glass is very helpful for solving many problems.
Dirty Cancel Credit Units within the Wired Selection Receiver can cause keys to lock and not release after being pressed. I disassemble and clean all parts of the the Cancel Credit Unit and replace the capacitors.
I clean and adjust the selector switch latch and driver solenoids, letter and number switches as well as components within electrical selector assembly.
I clean and adjust the selector unit and carriage unit assemblies, adjust contacts within the control and power boxes and the turntable bushings.
I refurbish jukebox amplifiers. All capacitors and out-of-tolerance resistors have been replaced, rotary dials cleaned, sockets cleaned, rust removed and chassis repainted. Great sound quality, loudness, no hum. Vacuum tubes & shipping extra. Cost depends on amplifier type.
As a retired Electrical Engineer educated on vacuum tube circuitry, I found a love in restoring vintage jukeboxes with my first jukebox, a 1958 Wurlitzer. Actually, I bought two and cannibalized parts from each to get one working. Since then, the jukebox became a fixture in our house. My kids enjoyed parties playing it. My wife and I loved dancing to it. Family and friends were enthralled with it, many of whom never saw a working jukebox. For the past 25+ years I’ve been buying and refurbishing neglected, broken or junked jukeboxes and finding new homes for them. It is very gratifying to hear a newly restored jukebox play its first record after spending hours of repair. I enjoy meeting people in “jukebox” world. My most challenging job was refurbishing a 1951 Seeburg M100-BL jukebox which came to me in parts. I make service calls in southeastern Pennsylvania/western New Jersey. Outside this area? Check Always Jukin' on the web for a local repair person. Call me at (410) 499-6748
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Seeburg Jukebox Not Playing Selections?
Is your jukebox playing some selections but others? Does it repeatedly play the same songs? If so, read about the possible causes and remedies.
Early Seeburg jukebox models between 1950 through 1954 (M100B/BL/G/R/J/W) used Selector Assembly (Pin Bank) as memory units to control the mechanism so that it played selections. In later models, the pin bank was replaced with the solid state Tormat Memory Unit that was more reliable.
If your Seeburg jukebox is a model M100-B, -BL,- C, -G, -W, or a HF-100R and HF-100J, your jukebox has an electromechanical Selection Assembly (a.k.a., pin bank). These pin banks are an early type of memory unit in that the selections are stored in the pin bank until they are detected and played. Play begins with the mechanical movement of an armature (i.e., pin) that starts the record playing. When these units start to fail some selected records are not played. Or some records are played repeatedly. In these cases, the pin bank needs to be refurbished.
Note: If all the selections will not play, then the problem is likely to be elsewhere and not within the pin bank.
Cleaning a pin bank is an involved, lengthy process involving disassembly of the top section to access the grounding switches and group magnets and, separately, disassembling the bottom portion to remove and clean the armatures (e.g., pins), contact washers and step bars. It is necessary to do this when pins do not move freely because they were stuck to grimy contacts or when the selector coils are disabled. Doing a thorough job requires several hours of labor that include an overnight soaking of the pins and washers to remove solidified grease and grime. When the selector coils were burnt or had broken wires, the entire coil must be removed and replaced.
When a jukebox is not making some selections, customers often spray contact cleaners into the openings of the pin bank attempting to clean the internals. This seldom resolves the problem but adds to the buildup of grease, oil and grime that prevents good electrical contact between these parts.
I suggest the Jukebox owner consider having the contact block cleaned at the same time as refurbishing the pin bank. Once the pin bank is removed it is easy to remove the contact block. The contact block is responsible for cancelling a selection after being played so that the selection does not play repeatedly. (For anyone considering removing a contact block it is important that all wires leading from the mechanism to the contact block terminal lugs be labeled for error-free reassembly.)
If pin bank selector coils are burnt the selection is not played. Selector coils can be burnt for many reasons but most often it is a result of a problem within the Cancel Credit Unit (CCU). The CCU is located on the Wired Selection Receiver (WSR) and may be hardwired or plugged in to a socket. Replacement coils are difficult to find as they must come from other cannibalized pin banks. It is suggested that the CCU be cleaned to prevent this from happening. The CCU is hardwired into the WSR on all models except the HF-R and HF-J. Therefore, the entire WSR must be shipped. Otherwise the CCU can be unplugged and shipped separately.
Yet another cause of burnt coils may result from a faulty AC/DC rectifier in the WSR. The CCU and many other components within the jukebox require a stable constant 25volt supply that comes from the power transformer and through the rectifier to the rest of the jukebox circuitry. The original rectifiers can fail after 70+ years of service and should be replaced by a current solid-state rectifier. A faulty rectifier could even wreck the transformer which is difficult find and costly to replace.
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