Imagine being 6yo sitting in front of this at your grandparents house, watching Saturday morning cartoons and you look back and tell your grandparents that one day I'm going to watch a guy repair this on my phone through an app called RU-vid and I'll be watching it in 1080p. You'd be called crazy😂
Man those Jukeboxes! One of my fondest memories of my youth was laying on the floor in front of a jukebox like that second one, mom was a cook at a small greasy spoon cafe right after we moved off the farm and into the city. I would stop in after school and the owner would grab a soup bowl and fill it with mashed potatoes then cover it in thick very brown beef gravy, that was my supper. Some times I would stay and wash dishes to make a few extra quarters so I could go to a movie on the weekend, for some reason I had stayed till closing that night and while mom and the owner were cleaning up, mom put a quarter in that Jukebox and put on Johnny Cash and the Tennessee flat top box. I lay down in front of that speaker and watched the dancing lights as Cash blasted out his anthem. Man that was music, I loved it. Still do. I had that song play at mom's funeral just after New Years day when she passed away at 97 years old.
Lux and Ivy's jukebox? With their records that they put in it? That's the most fantastic thing I've seen! How does one get something like that? What a piece of history. Great video!
I love people who are passionate about their hobby like this jukebox collector. Thanks for visiting him Shango and showing some interesting behind the scenes electronics and mechanics of his equipment.
Please note that the white plastic assembly that has the purity rings in it also has a rectangular section that has magnets it it too. Those magnets are to help in setting up the blue gun convergence. It has to remain stationary above the blue gun. The whole assembly is rotating on the neck of the CRT while he is trying to adjust the purity. The assembly has to be tight enough against the CRT neck that the blue magnets remain stable above the blue gun. You might want to use a large nylon plastic cable tie to secure it to the CRT neck. The original assembly had a metal ring with a rubber coating on it that helped grip the CRT glass neck without putting too much stress on the glass neck at any point. Those metal clamps did get rusty over time and often broke and had to be replaced. In any case obtaining purity would indeed be nearly impossible as long as that assembly keeps rotating on the neck of the CRT while the purity rings are moved.
The 1950 Seeburg M100B was their first 45rpm jukebox. Seeburg V200 was the first to use Seeburgs new "Tormat Electronic Memory unit" instead of the old electromechanical pin bank system. Its nice to see that your V200 still has the rotating title drum. Those were failure prone and most had them removed and a giant static title board that obscured the mechanism installed in its place
Cool to see the TV working well. That Seeburg 200 selection jukebox was the first consumer device to use core memory Seeburg called it Tormat the other device from 1955 that used core memory was IBM's SAGE system for the USAF. Very awesome to see "The Cramps" jukebox as well. On the WurliTzer 1015, there is a "Quick Heat" circuit for the tube filaments that puts 12.6 V on them for about 3 seconds and then drops back down to 6.3V, that way by the time the mechanism has selected the record the amp is warmed up, most collectors disable that circuit as it is hard on the tubes, especially the 6L6 output tubes. The factory 15" "Woofer" would have been a Jensen ElectroDynamic speaker with about a 5,600 ohm field coil. The early 1015s used an Astatic crystal cartridge, later they switched to the Zenith "Cobra" tone arm with a light tracking stylus. The "Bubbler tubes" are full of metal formate which boils at about 108 F to heat the tubes there is a 15W ceramic wire wound resistor at the bottom of the front cabinet the tube fits into the center hole of the resister with a copper shim to make for a tight fit, when a coin is inserted power is applied to the resistors in the bubbler tube.
Wurlitzer had a system where it would run the heaters at reduced voltage basically all the time when the jukebox was on. Then, when the selection was made, the correct voltage would be applied and by the time the record started playing, the tubes were fully warmed up.
He kept on going fixing tv's and radios and other stuff this guy don't sleep at all, work work and more more work who is this guy come from damn it is balling out of control-RIP MOM and POP stores, DLH and i love it
Yes! That rectangular white plastic part of the purity assembly is called the "Blue Lateral Magnet". When the round white plastic collar is rotated it causes the magnets to come closer to the CRT neck or farther away in that part of the assembly. The result is that when looking at the cross hatch pattern it moves the blue vertical lines left or right so that you can get the blue to line up with the red and green at the center of the screen. It is one of the steps to achieve static center convergence. Of course, the blue gun vertical movement is achieved with the small blue static convergence plastic knob in front of the Purity/Blue Lateral magnet assembly. RCA achieved an easy to set up system when they introduced the large plastic collar that the red, blue and green static magnets and dynamic coils are mounted in. There is even a screw on the bottom of the assembly that will raise the yoke up and down some in order to achieve the best overall results of blue gun static and dynamic convergence.
I need a focus group to review my videos before I dare release when I leave any little thing Absent that becomes the main criticism of all the comments.
@@shango066 My comments were meant to be helpful, not as criticism. I worked for RCA Service Co. in the Dallas, TX area during the 1960s and 1970s. We only worked on RCA, so we were able to learn all the details of setting them up and servicing them. We even changed CRTs in home. Literally thousands of these sets were under service contract during that time. I admire your approach to working on so many different brands. I enjoy your humor as you work! Have fun!
I've never seen one of those arch top looking jukeboxes to before, I was surprised when the table came up to push the record into the needle. Very impressive machinery
I used to do convergence setup using a Radio Shack videogame console, it had Pong and 3 variations (Squash etc). It was the 'pattern generator' my teenager self could afford.
A VCR could have been used to record the test pattern that some stations broadcast over the air at the end of their scheduled programming. And that recording could be used for aligning.
@@stevebabiak6997 Well, the VCRs had just come out, (late 70s) it would have been 3x a generator, ~$1,000 but at least I could record my favorite show afterward.😄. Besides, stations didn't broadcast more than the NTSC color bars and (if they shut down) the Indian head pattern
Surely this is Chris...and it's nice to see you working together, not able to read your mind but has the smarts for a smart guy~ LOVE your friendship....if you truly love something set it free~ most would agree, godddamn it could have saved the first TV was A roundie, but drug addicted landlords took it from me and the Mitusbushi 40" think it was so giant, but exert Japanese craftsmanship for 1988. pops was in La Mirada now, and needed the best there is with everything....cept interpersonal relationships. LOVED all his women, all three marriages were to sweet people but one cannot own LAND, just as one cannon own one's Soul~!
Shango066 you’d do pretty well working on jukeboxes with your combined electronic and mechanical abilities. I work on them and you’re a lot smarter than me.
If the bubble tubes use the same stuff that's in the bubbling Christmas lights, then the liquid is dichloromethane. This is a solvent that boils at just 103F. It is easily boiled by a small heating element at the bottom, and it re-condenses into liquid as it cools near the top.
This has got to be shango best videos so far. Worth the viewing. I love that last jukebox the wurltizar. I actually got to see its mechanisms. Im hoping for a part 2.
Great video how Shango shares his knowledge about troubleshooting the technical issue, as well the alignment procedure and patiently guiding the person for getting the correct picture on the TV. Also enjoyed the record jukebox video, it was great seeing how a record jukebox works.
You should read up on the theory of operation on the Model 530 amplifier in the Wurlitzer 1900 service manual. The Wurlitzer Continentals used Zenith cobra cartridges which behave like a coil in a tank circuit to generate the audio signal. Really unlike anything else I've seen before. Getting a working cartridge is really difficult nowadays though.
There's too much blue on TV unless it's the way it just votes across on the video. I had an RCA COLORTRAC I watched daily up until 2010. It was still working beautifully when I pit it on the curb. I was glad to see someone picked it up before the rubbish truck arrived.
Also called dichloromethane is an industrial solvent used in paints and cleaning compounds. It is a carcinogen. Don’t break the tubes. Currently under consideration by the EPA for banning use in paint and cleaning compounds.
Wurlitzer looks real nice :) A friend had a smaller possibly 1 foot FM radio copy of such a jukebox. Year was 1999 back in the days, i don't know how old that already was back then.
My favorite of the Paul Fuller designed Wurlitzers would be the 1100. Very sleek,colorful and modern,plus is used Zeniths revolutionary Cobra tone arm with the Radionic Cartridge setup. They bragged that a record could be played 2000 times and retain 90 some percent of its original fidelity. Prior to the cobra they had those huge lollipop tonearms
I don't think anything could be cooler than a Juke Box that was owned by The Cramps, holy effing shit. If that was anywhere near me I'd have to listen to every record in there.
Accurate about the TV sound not being set up for stereo. That's both because VIR and MTS weren't around, and bc they wired the speakers in parallel. I think some Zenith sets used the HiFi amp in mono mode to drive the speakers.
I loved the video but it was too short and now I am on silly side watch 😢 I think I like the bubble jukebox, it’s lovely, I’ve always seen them in movies and once a bowling alley.
If the "Warren" he's talking about is Warren Rowe,Im sorry to say that Warren passed away in 2022. Warren was an amazing guy who worked for Seeburg in his younger days and was in the jukebox repair bussiness for 70 years. He was a fountain of knowledge and always happy to help. It was a sad day when he closed up shop in El Monte. He had a treasure trove of parts upstairs. He had a couple jukeboxes he worked on that belonged to Danny DeVito,repaired jukeboxes for Hugh Hefner at the Playboy mansion,and had tons of neat stories from his years in the bussiness. He could fix it all not matter what the make. He even worked on the Seeburg 1000 systems. He will he missed.
@@Christopher-re2hl I've been a subscriber to Shago066 for many years & my attempt at a translation of his response above would be something like- Hi, thanks for watching. 🙂
Sony owned patents on trinitron and never sold them anyone else. Rest of the industry used in-line design when was avaiable. But this TV was made before trinitron was used.
The TV in this video used a delta gun CRT, those always had some electronics to help perform convergence. The industry switched to inline gun CRTs, where convergence was just done with the magnetic rings on the CRT neck. Even Trinitron CRTs used an inline gun, they just used an aperture grill rather than a shadow mask. And a comment above was correct that Sony owned patents on the Trinitron CRT design.
I have a analog stereo adapter box from the 80s. I used it on 2 different CRT TVs I had in the 90s/00s. There is a "sniffer" pickup coil that you put someplace near the IF. It then has line out to connect to your receiver. Does not work with the digital adapter boxes so the RF output on those must not have the MTS stereo encoded.
Yeah, but I always feel sorry for Mike Leander, the guy who actually made the entire track apart from GG's lousy vocals added after - It's that great beat Leander made with tape loops that everybody liked, and that great guitar sound with all strings tuned to the same note - a stroke of genius - GG only doing his lousy vocals after the work was done, so it's a pity we can't enjoy Leander's track without GG on it.
@@frankowalker4662 I always thought Katy Perry's Swedish producers kinda "pinched/borrowed" that beat and guitar sound on the start of I KISSED A GIRL - so I tested it out by playing the start of Rock n Roll Part 2 within earshot of some teenagers who loved Katy Perry, and sure enough, they complained, asking why I stopped playing I KISSED A GIRL - Cause it wasn't katy Perry. I'm sure I've heard other re-uses of it as well. Bloomin cheek.
@@frankowalker4662 Oh yeah, I forgot about that one! I still love all that kinda stuff. I tried playing the UK top ten last week and realised why teenagers feel so depressed - Dismal wasn't the word.
