Rowe AMI Tropicana Jukebox – Part 1

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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.

Williams Indiana Jones pinball machine part 1

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I got this Williams Indiana Jones pinball machine in for repair.
This machine has multiple problems.

It starts up, and it is possible to start a game.

But it ejects two balls every time.
(Bad optos maybe?)

There are no music whatsoever, and no soundeffects, just a random “ding” now and then.

When i tried to get into the test menu, it did not respond to any of the buttons inside the coin door.
So i measured all the cables from the buttons up to the connector on the CPU-board, and they were all ok.
Tested the buttons again, but still no response.

I then removed the CPU-board and placed it on my workbench to give it a good visual inspection.
Acid-damage had taken 6 IC:s and some resistors/capacitors…

So i removed IC:s and the battery holder, and will clean the board up before putting in sockets and changing some resistors and capacitors.

The driver board also has some damage on some connectors due to heating, and some hacking has been done previously that i have to fix.

EIKI RT-0 16mm update #2

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The pressure arm at the sound drum were stuck, and needed a cleaning and lubrication to work again.

And the loop-restorer arm was also stuck, and it too needed a cleaning and lubrication to work.

The rubber belts arrived, and are now in place.

And the auto-thread system arm were cleaned and lubricated as well, since it too were stuck.

The projector now works, but the sound is very distorted.
I will take the amplifier board out and see if the capacitors needs replacement.
(They are old, sĂĄ they may have dried out.)

I did a little modification to the mic input jack, so now it is used as a line out instead.
That way i could connect an external amplifier to check if the sound is distorted before the built in amplifier, or if it is the amplifier itself that is the problem.

Sound were fine when i used the line out jack, so it seems that the capacitors on the amplifier board needs replacement.