Uncle Doug, your depth of knowledge always amazes me. I really don’t know of any other person on or off RU-vid who can modify a 1946 jukebox to work with modern records, build hot rods, and repair/modify vintage amps. You are truly outstanding, sir. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. It is very much appreciated.
NOTE: Several viewers voiced concerns regarding the apparent absence of RIAA Equalization (a rather complex but interesting, topic.....look it up on YT if you're interested). It's been my experience that the significant increase in input impedance and use of a 1 meg VC pot results in good bass response......plus, don't forget the 18" speaker, which does some "equalization" on its own. In the rare case that less treble is desired, I have occasionally added a trim pot in the VC Box allowing varying amounts of high frequency to leak to ground through a low-value capacitor (value selected by trial and error). Regardless, the warm "jukebox tone" is quite evident.....and can be heard in one of my earlier videos featuring the W-1015: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-htbN7-vxUbg.html
Thanks for doing what you do on here. I always learn a lot from watching these videos. You have a real work of art in that 1947 Wurlitzer! I appreciate you showing it in your video. Take care!
I missed your jukebox videos. This video just ties many of your loves together and that is why I come here. You weren't even remotely testing my love of this stuff.
Thanks Doug, a very interesting video. Love your Jukebox it's a thing of beauty, that quick start relay would really sort the chaff from the hay on valves with weak heater filaments. Speaking of metal valves I have a 1946 RCA Bench amp that is all metal, it had a little 3" speaker for which I removed and put a milliamp meter in the hole it left and is now a guitar amp. It's a great amp and pushes my vintage Celestion quad box quite well. All the best mate!
Wonderful!!! A real blast from past. There was a Jukebox like that in The Lions Den the Tuck Shop in my High School in the 60s. Thanks for the memories. Mike
Great video. Two of my favorite things I love about North Tonawanda, New York. Wurlitzer juke boxes and big block Chevrolet engines were manufactured there!
I did an image search for the original pickup for that beast, and it is truly mammoth! When I had a job at an electronics wholesaler in the early 70's, we had an old juke box renter who would buy cases of Astatic #51-3 cartridges and needles to boot for all his conversions. I don't think he had anything this old, though! Lovely fidelity from that setup! I recently worked on the opposite end of the spectrum - a Duo-sonic record player about 1955 vintage - a monster Astatic Crystal cartridge with about 1.5 V of output (yes, volt!) feeding directly to the grid of the 25L6. It's the most simple piece of audio gear I've ever worked on! Didn't sound nearly as sweet as your Wurlitzer! Looking forward to the next one, Doug!
Thanks for sharing this with us, 87. The original horseshoe-magnet cartridge for both pre and post-war Wurlitzer jukeboxes was indeed a formidable chunk of metal, completely filling the entire circular tone arm head and weighing several ounces.
You are speaking my language! My first guitar amplifier was a Wurlitzer similar to this, but older, since it had an old 5Z3 4 pin rectifier tube. I could have really used the pre amp you have. I was able to get a used pre amp to make the guitar operate. My gosh, you are the Best! I loved my old amplifier. I played bass by the way. Thanks Uncle Doug!
When I saw Wurlitzer I was thinking organs. I forgot they did jukeboxes too. And it's red! I loved the jukebox in the arcade in the 70's. I'm sure you'll have it up and running and ready to rock.
Very happy to hear your informative voice, uncle.i hope you don't think we're sick of seeing you work on classic guitar amps. ..( hint hint) but we're certainly happy to see you work on just about anything, jukeboxes, rat rods, oil cans.... 😁😁😁
Hi! This video reminds me of a visit I made to the Shure company near Chicago to attend a lecture on the history of record player cartridges. Fun memories 😊
Gosh, I was worried about this guy. Thank goodness he’s back. I’ve got a basement full of vacuum tubes, chassis, transformers, and speakers I’ve been hoarding up from sales. I’ve got to start making stuff.
Thank you for this great video Uncle Doug. You have been sorely missed. You are about the only channel that i have the notification bell on an its been tearing me up waiting to finally watch it! Life gets busy sometimes. Among other things i have been caring for a wonderful tiny feral yellow kitty who adopted us thes year an she finally got spayed an had a pretty hard time with it, but she an her big brother are living the good life now as dedicated indoor kittys only. That amp sounds great an your kittys are killing it with the tunes!
You are quite welcome, SC. Bless you for caring for lost kitties. All four of our indoor pals are rescued feral cats, and all four are wonderful members of our family, returning our love and kindness ten fold.
I could listen to Olly and Jack all night Uncle Doug, Four months is far too long though for a prolific RU-vidr such as yourself. Please produce more great stuff as soon as you can. Nuts.
Jack and Ollie were overheard at the catnip cantina wondering whose couch they need to stop scratching to get some face time in these videos . If they go union , you'd be the lesser of 60/40 for anymore of their help . Just say'n . :o) Thanks UD , for the sock hop memory .
OK…… I cheated I went directly to the output test at the end of the upload. Pretty cool to see Jack’s red axe. Never figured he was a P90 pickup fan though. I had him pegged as a humbuckler dawg. Thanks for the upload. I’ll watch the whole vid once the wife goes to sleep. She doesn’t understand my addiction the amp repair porn.
How cool! We used to play a community center in Palatka, Florida back around 1964-65 ... One of the songs that you could still choose, was Buddy Holly's "Maybe Baby." That place was like the Happy Days TV show. When I grow up and get rich, I am going to have one of these Wurlitzers, a couple pin ball machines, and a Chris-Craft 1950's runabout like you would find at Kingsley Beach, Florida!
Straight forward, informative teaching excellence as always and uninterrupted by adverts, makes it a real pleasure to take in your wealth of knowledge , thank you Doug.
It’s a fantastic diversion of your talent Uncle Doug. The original jukebox videos and the conversions are some of my favorites and they seemed to bring some “likes”. The guitar amp vids are top notch too, also some of my faves. Please take care Uncle Doug and stay awesome!
So many,many years ago worked on a Wurlitzer jukebox that used a similar electrodynamic speaker. It used a separate 5U4 tube supply to power the speaker magnet. Had an amp similar to the one shown in this film. A friend of ominous and I rebuilt the amp and supply for the box. It played 78. The speaker system had a tweeter as well. Sounded great when finished. Also redid the motor in its auto TT. Can’t remember the models-was over 40 yrs ago!
Thank you for this video. I restore/repair jukeboxes so really enjoyed this one. All of your videos are great and I Thank You for the time you take in making these.
I cut my teeth on valve hifi then turned to the way more complex circuits in guitar amps. You made that transition much much easier. And you're right, a lot of guitar amp techs miss out by not making their own valve hifi, the quality is sublime compared to transistors and Class-A or Class-AB to boot!
Thanks so much for another great video and change of pace. That relay for the instant heating of the filaments when the coin drops is so cool. Thanks again for the knowledge, take care! Shawn, Jax, FL.
It's great to have you back Uncle and once more another deeply fascinating restoration of a rare item. All the very best to you Sir and keep 'em comin'! Alex from Scotland 😁
These old jukeboxes in their day, especially in bars, ran all day, and in to closing time day after day. I think this is fascinating you working on this piece of history. Excellent video.
Welcome back Uncle Doug! You should partner with a low run record producer to create your own 45 rpm test vinyl. You might be able to swing a cool contra deal just for the asking. This way you can have a great way of testing other jukeboxes and other vinyl spinners. I am really glad you are back Uncle Doug. Your videos are thoroughly informative, entertaining and insightful.
Thanks so much for your very kind words, JF. Back in the 80's Rhino Records produced a bunch of popular 45 RPM hits on 78 RPM records, so they could be played in vintage jukeboxes. Those records are quite valuable now.
Hey Doug, and as everyone else here has commented, great to have you back with another 'jewel' of a video..! Great info and a fab topic.. Always learning and especially the nickel drop 9Volt heater thingy..So cool how that was thought out. Thanks for sharing, and I learn so much always..Stay safe..Ed..uk..😀
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