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OT: Looking for a Jukebox

A "proper" jukebox Andy i'm guessing when you say 50/60's... :)

Picked up a bandit around two years ago from a guy that professionally refurbished these in his garage... 8k was cheap for a good working one this side of the water... Might be a lot cheaper to get one from the USA and shipped... he used to ship them in by the Crate load, and by the time they were refurbished and all working 10K+....

They were like new though!

Apparently he couldn't refurbish them quick enough, even at that price!
 
Not sure what happened to my post, the site stopped responding and then I had a multipost.
This was what I was trying to say:

First place I worked had am AMI and a Rock-o-la that were easy enough to work on. With your skills Andy, you will have that working in no time. :)
 
Andy,

Never post on here usually not sure why - probably as always more to learn than babble on about but might be able to add something - what you have there on FleaBay is a 2104 (52 record) Wurlitzer from 1957.

The four most desirable models from Wurlitzer in the now very popular Silver (45 era) age are in descending order the 2000 (200 play, 1956), 2100 (200 play, 1957), 1900 (104 play, 1956) and 2104 (104 play, 1957).
1956 is the centenary year for Wurlitzer and the models have a premium for that - the 1957 models are a little less but not much.
The 100 record, 200 play models (2000 and 2100) had turning pages that broke down and were abandoned after 1957 and therefore are high desirable..
Price wise a mint 2000 could go for £10-14k nowadays maybe even more, the 104 play 1900 is just over about half that - sometimes more a touch more - and the 1957 are roughly a (few) grand cheaper. So typically a mint 2104 might be as around the £5-7k I would say but all these 4 models carry a premium over others from the era and might command a tad more especially from a dealer.

Silver age boxes are on the roll at the moment - the golden age ones are falling to the domain of serious collectors - no one wants a modern era one unless you are limited to a paying a few hundred quid and have a special fondness for a non visible mechanism in some might say to modern tastes - ugly boxes.
Rich middle aged guys can't play their records from their youth on 78, but can put one 45 jukebox in their game room - and the first choice for many is a Wurlitzer and one of the glory four models..

Parts are readily available - Geoff the Jukebox Man in the midlands (not a million miles away from you) but the real total sources are Stamann (German) and Victory Glass (US).
Couple of UK shows a year -on the vain a bit.
Dealers can charge like a wounded bull as can restorations but I have found Adrian - the Juke of Shrewsbury to be great on the second of my restos.

For a man of your abilities it will be easy to get the mechanism working - these are over engineered and design to be in a pub/café on constant use.
Amps are straightforward to overhaul and many to help out.
Cabinets and older electricals are the issues that take time and money.

Hope that helps a tad...

Cheers,

Tim

Current Line Up : Wurlitzer 2000 (1956), Ami H200E (1957), Chantal Meteor (1959), Wurlitzer 1080 (1947)
WTB : Wurlitzer 61 (1939), Wurlitzer 850 (1941)
 
Ok, as I have already stepped over serious nerd jukebox threshold - well and truly - and there is no turning back.

Thinking about this today...

Andy or any one interested in that box on Fleabay --your comment on the fuse might be all it needs initially - the selector mechanism off the push buttons runs through a 1A SB fuse in the bottom of the cabinet .
I am pretty sure from memory and away from my 2000 at present, it is the left hand small round fuse holder as you look at it with the back off.

Change this and you may find it selects and plays - for a good while at least. My 2000 does this from time to time - the buttons stick down and blow the fuse especially if I haven't used it for a bit.

The fuse has blown though because the selector mechanism is gummed up a bit - don't use a lot of oil on these boxes - and needs a damn good use to loose it up - at least a few records every week in general use and a lot more initially.
Tell 'er indoors you are servicing the jukebox by playing pinball for hours listening to it in the shed.
It may of course just be knackered and needing replacement or overall but worth a first try when looking at it.

Other reason is possibly one of the solenoid selectors is temperamental/sticking/shorting - there will be 104 on this box in a big wheel at the back and often the B sides don't get used much and stick and burn the aforementioned fuse - again you will have fun finding which one by playing all the B sides.

So a pack of 10 1A SB fuses from Maplin and off to look at it and that might make a very nice silver age jukebox for someone for Christmas... not mint by any means but more than nice enough.
 
Well 'tis true that one of my biggest disappointments in life is not the stupid surname but that there isn't a better Mr Men character named after me.
 
Andy,
There is a bloke in Birkenhead who fixes them up in a workshop above a tyre garage, he fixed mine and had some really nice machines up there in various states or repair. He is very good and reasonable on his repair prices, not sure on his sale prices but if you want his number It may be worth giving him a shout. Really nice bloke, looks like he does it for a hobby. I have a NSM prestige II and it needed board work and mechanical repair and he fixed it and fully serviced it cost me about £100 which I thought was cheap.
Cheers Adie
 
Discomatics in Nottingham have a good reputation, they are restoring my 1954 Seeburg at the moment
 
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