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I am about finished for my jukebox tinkering season. I had a good winter and spring, I got 3 working pretty well in my shop and started in on the cosmetics of 2 of them.
A late spring task was to hook up a Seeburg wallbox to my Wurlitzer 3760 which was the first jukebox I bought. It turns 50 this year, so I wanted to do a few extra items. I also restored the lower panel, which I just discovered also had lower accent lights. I never even realized that they existed because all the bulbs where burnt out.
On hooking up the wallbox I went through the stepper in the jukebox. I cleaned and freed everything up. The letter selection was froze up, but fortunately nothing was broken. Then I did the same with the wallbox. The motor was hanging up on occasion but after a cleaning and lube it has worked perfectly.
I feel like I have a pretty unique set up. In 1969 Seeburg went to their Digital jukebox, which had a basic computer for music selection. In the same year Wurlitzer introduced a 80 record 160 play jukebox, they were known beforehand for 100 and 200 play jukeboxes. Now with the 160 play model they could play the 160 play mechanical walboxes, which were now obsolete with the new digital Seeburg.
Unfortunately for Wurlitzer this didn't save them from going out of business. 6 years later they made their last jukebox in 1974, mine in the picture is a 1973. 5 years after that Seeburg went out of business too. They were bought out and 2 more versions of their last model followed, but then that company closed their jukebox division, when CDs started catching on.
I am about finished for my jukebox tinkering season. I had a good winter and spring, I got 3 working pretty well in my shop and started in on the cosmetics of 2 of them.
A late spring task was to hook up a Seeburg wallbox to my Wurlitzer 3760 which was the first jukebox I bought. It turns 50 this year, so I wanted to do a few extra items. I also restored the lower panel, which I just discovered also had lower accent lights. I never even realized that they existed because all the bulbs where burnt out.
On hooking up the wallbox I went through the stepper in the jukebox. I cleaned and freed everything up. The letter selection was froze up, but fortunately nothing was broken. Then I did the same with the wallbox. The motor was hanging up on occasion but after a cleaning and lube it has worked perfectly.
I feel like I have a pretty unique set up. In 1969 Seeburg went to their Digital jukebox, which had a basic computer for music selection. In the same year Wurlitzer introduced a 80 record 160 play jukebox, they were known beforehand for 100 and 200 play jukeboxes. Now with the 160 play model they could play the 160 play mechanical walboxes, which were now obsolete with the new digital Seeburg.
Unfortunately for Wurlitzer this didn't save them from going out of business. 6 years later they made their last jukebox in 1974, mine in the picture is a 1973. 5 years after that Seeburg went out of business too. They were bought out and 2 more versions of their last model followed, but then that company closed their jukebox division, when CDs started catching on.
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