Recently Acquired Seeburg q100 Questions

Rob,
Dis-agree somewhat with you here--The GOOD used parts suppliers, all have copies of the parts books, so that they can "pull" the correct part when needed. You are correct about the electronics, if "house numbers", which are generally useless, unless you have the cross over reference material. Ron Rich

Coming from pinball land all old parts are easily cross referenced on google for the new parts. I will have to check with a few suppliers once funds allow. I think the first order of business is the 2 cap kits though.

Well,
Back in the "olden daze", When Jukeboxes and (many more) Pins (then today) were produced, "MusicGuyz", and "PinGuyz" did not like each others field--They were "two different worlds"--
Ron Rich

Ron Rich wrote:Well,
Back in the "olden daze", When Jukeboxes and (many more) Pins (then today) were produced, "MusicGuyz", and "PinGuyz" did not like each others field--They were "two different worlds"--
Ron Rich

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I am almost afraid to ask this one but the casing on the wire inside have become hard... Not sure if they are brittle... Should I replace them or should I be ok?

I'm told that "hard is good"--but I don't recall that, any more--so--to answer what I think, is your question--
If the insulation will snap off, I would surely replace the wire ! ( or, at minimum, sleeve it )
Ron Rich

Ron Rich wrote:I'm told that "hard is good"--but I don't recall that, any more--so--to answer what I think, is your question--
If the insulation will snap off, I would surely replace the wire ! ( or, at minimum, sleeve it )
Ron Rich

Ok that made me chuckle. I will investigate further and see if it is brittle at all.

"Syco" -What you may be feeling is the stiffening of the cloth loom that covers the cables from the mech, Tormat, keyboard. With the exception of cables that were allowed to rest on a tube, actual brittleness in a cable is very rare.

Over time the plastics that insulate the individual wires inside there can ooze a bit of petroleum from their base and this will make the loom slightly sticky. That, along with the general miasma of gunk that gets sucked into machine due to the temperature difference inside the cabinet.

Washing the entire mech (and everything else) generally eliminates the crackly feel in the cable.

I've had two instances where a mech tail cable had an open wire. I just cutaway the loom, replaced the wire and replaced the loom with spiral cable wrap or you can use split-loom tubing.

Rob

Rob-NYC wrote:"Syco" -What you may be feeling is the stiffening of the cloth loom that covers the cables from the mech, Tormat, keyboard. With the exception of cables that were allowed to rest on a tube, actual brittleness in a cable is very rare.

Over time the plastics that insulate the individual wires inside there can ooze a bit of petroleum from their base and this will make the loom slightly sticky. That, along with the general miasma of gunk that gets sucked into machine due to the temperature difference inside the cabinet.

Washing the entire mech (and everything else) generally eliminates the crackly feel in the cable.

I've had two instances where a mech tail cable had an open wire. I just cutaway the loom, replaced the wire and replaced the loom with spiral cable wrap or you can use split-loom tubing.

Rob

I was not referring to the cloth loom but rather the actual wire insulation. It feels really stiff. This was just inside the back door and I do not anticipate bending it around very much.

Ron Rich wrote:Well,
Back in the "olden daze", When Jukeboxes and (many more) Pins (then today) were produced, "MusicGuyz", and "PinGuyz" did not like each others field--They were "two different worlds"--
Ron Rich

Yeah, there was a sort of hierarchy. It went in ascending level: pins-jukes-video games. A FEW of the op's here were capable of board rework repairs on logic and deflection boards. Most just dumped (or tried to dump) their troubles on types like me.

Some of the larger op's also had phones and vending but I never paid much attention to those...This WAS a hobby.

Rob

Rob,
"Music" was always my "job" (been doin' it since 1967--till I "retired" { } 5 years ago)--at either the factory or distributor level. I don't think there was any "hierarchy" around here--everyone had their "specialty", and stuck to it-
"Operation level", was a different story--either the "operator" did nothing, or had hired hands to attempt to do it all. Many of the "hired hands" were, as you have named them "Gepetto's", and would bring me things with tears in their eyes--and I would usually "bail them out"---
Ron Rich