I had a Seeburg M100B shipped from my mother's house to my house today. It's in mostly working condition and I'd like to try to get it repaired and restored to the extent possible. To that point, I have a few questions.
- 1) Is there anyone in the Washington DC metro area that does restoration work on this type of jukebox?
2) Given that I'm somewhat handy, but have no experience in this kind of work, would it be possible or recommended for me to attempt some basic repairs?
3) Does anyone know what kind of cost I might be looking at for either a professional restoration or if I end up doing some work myself?
Regarding the fact that it's in "mostly working condition", I turned it on after it was shipped today and it successfully played through about a dozen songs. However, after that, it simply stopped. The lights were all on and I kept choosing new songs, but the player mechanism just stopped moving. Once this happened, I noticed that there was a wheel inside the selector that occasionally kept trying to spin, but it almost seemed like the mechanism had simply grown too tired (for lack of a better term) to keep moving. Is that a possibility, or is it likely that something was broken in the move?
I'd appreciate any help or direction for how best to move forward and will try to provide any more information that may be helpful.
Thanks.