Wurlitzer 2600 record selection

Hi there, a new member here, with a little introduction.

I am Dennis van den Berk from Hilversum in the Netherlands, 32 years old, and I grew up between Jukeboxes and 50/60's music.

My brother has recently bought a Wurlitzer 2600 and it worked flawless up until a couple of weeks ago.

When we select A2, B2 or C2 it plays the record on the opposite side of the selector. So A2 becomes L1, B2 becomes M1 and C2 becomes N1. It's only with those three selections. All others work as they should. I have the manual for the Jukebox, checked everything that could be the problem, the troubleshooting part didn't have this exact problem, all switches work, the corresponding pins all pop up as they should, but with those 3 selections it just pushes up the wrong arm to bring the record to the player.

Does anyone have a clue where I should look/measure/adjust/replace to fix this problem?

Many thanks in advance.

Hello Dennis,

Welcome to the forum.

Sorry I can't help on the Wurlitzer but someone may be along soon with some advice, if you have not already placed your question on the Stamann website www.jukebox-world.de then I would do so.

Regards
Alan

Alan Hood
ami-man
UK

ami-man wrote:Hello Dennis,

Welcome to the forum.

Sorry I can't help on the Wurlitzer but someone may be along soon with some advice, if you have not already placed your question on the Stamann website http://www.jukebox-world.de then I would do so.

Regards
Alan

Alan Hood
ami-man
UK

Thanks for the link, I'll check it out.

Dennis, when this sort of thing happens on those mechs the first step is to check that the correct pin is being punched. look at the pinwheel and see which one pops up when the problem pins are selected.

Most likely the problem is due to dirty-gummy backstop pawls which don't engage fast enough.
Other causes are:

-Defective microswitch on the crank (arm that hits the raised pin). Poor contact with the slipring contacts on the crank assembly.

-Misalignment of the pin memory unit. There should be an alignment took on the wall of the machine. this gets inserted up through the center on the bottom of the pin memory and should slide all the way up to the C clip that stops it.

You should also join the Wurlitzer site:

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/wurlitzer/info

Rob/NYC

Rob-NYC wrote:Dennis, when this sort of thing happens on those mechs the first step is to check that the correct pin is being punched. look at the pinwheel and see which one pops up when the problem pins are selected.

Most likely the problem is due to dirty-gummy backstop pawls which don't engage fast enough.
Other causes are:

-Defective microswitch on the crank (arm that hits the raised pin). Poor contact with the slipring contacts on the crank assembly.

-Misalignment of the pin memory unit. There should be an alignment took on the wall of the machine. this gets inserted up through the center on the bottom of the pin memory and should slide all the way up to the C clip that stops it.

You should also join the Wurlitzer site:

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/wurlitzer/info

Rob/NYC

It does select the correct pin, but what you said about the centering tool being inserted until the c clip might be the culprit, ours doesn't go all the way in, it stops half an inch before the c clip. I'll try to realign it, and check the backstop pawls to see if it's all clean.

Thanks.

@Rob-NYC

It was indeed a misalignment. We now have it working again, everything selects again as it should. The alignment itself still isn't perfect but at least all records play again.

Again, a lot of thanks for the quick help.

I have had "alignment" problems--it's rarely perfect, as shown in the manual, but I find if the tool will come out with minimum pressure, it works fine--Ron Rich