A small update on my jukebox restoration. I've had it for around a year now and can say i frisking this this thing. Its now like part of the family and i often go into the dining room on an evening to listen to a few 'classic' song just to unwind. I love the fact the machine is the same age as me, as i feel it knows me! (Sad i know!)
Have been sorting through various charity shop and ebay vinyl finds to get my best 50 records! That is still ongoing, and i've had a saturday trip in Leeds to search for vinyl to! About 5 or 6 good shops in leeds centre
I've also improved my amp a little and repaired a few for other people during the year, cleaning up the tone electors on the pre-amp made a big difference to. The SHP (Seeburg High Power) amps are pretty nice units to work on.
Recently (as in last night) i finally got my Sonos Connect hooked up to internal amps and now have 'all the music in the world' at my fingertips. This doesn't interfere with the 50 vinyl records, due t using a specific port o the amp and so i have the best of both.
Here is my prototype cable i made up. Pretty simple in the end, but no joke that the research to work this out took many many hours! The documentation for old jukeboxes is not that easy to find, unlike pinball stuff.
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Test video from last night here
https://www.instagram.com/p/BbNqBG-H99-/
A modern input source really improves the audio quality. A lot of the songs a remastered versions to.
Probably next year is going to be the CHROME, replating and repowercoating year! I want all the chrome parts to look like new, so ideas welcome on the best course of action. Someone resprayed a lot of the parts purple at some time!