Cleaning of the popularity counter that keeps track of which songs is the most popular are now finished. 🙂
There were pins to be cleaned and reinserted… 🙂

The mechanism for showing which song is playing was disassembled and cleaned.
Unfortunately there should be two small cogs on one of the wheels that were broken..
To make things worse one of the cogs were missing, so it is not possible to just glue them back.
Luckily the Jukebox will work whithout it until a replacement part is found.

A little bit of cleaning later… 🙂

Now it is time for the “wheel” that keeps track of the selections.
There are a lot of pins and springs to be cleaned and then reinserted… 🙂

All the push-buttons (30 buttons) in the selector unit needed to be cleaned.
Most of them did not work… 🙂

Next up for cleaning is the credit unit.
Rather filthy… 🙂

Got the mechanism out on the workbench for a first look.
Some obvious problems, and needs a good clean and lubrication.

Got this Rowe AMI Tropicana Jukebox in for repair. (JBM-200, 1964)

It is in rough shape and needs a lot of repairs.

I unplugged the amps and powered it on to see what it does.
The lights are mostly ok.

Not responding at all when i tried to select a record using the buttons.
The buttons does not “stick” in pressed down mode either.
And holding down a letter and a number together does not do anything.

Using the “Scan” button on the inside, it spins the carousel, so that part seems ok. 🙂
When powered off, manually turning the carousel makes the gripper arm pick up a record and place it on the platter and later put it back, but the tonearm does not move at all.

The power amps are missing two of the tubes.
A 6AW8A and, unfortunatly, an 7868…
7868 are hard to get hold of, and really expensive if found.