Seeburg EU100 290 H5 needing repair

Hi all! Thank god for this forum! Stumbled across it while desperately searching for information. Already found some answers but not everything, so decided I should post and ask. I should begin by letting you guys know the Seeburg in question is not mine, it's my fathers, but he's not that good with computers and has asked me to look into it for him. He bought a Seeburg Stereo Phonograph EU100 290 H5 a while ago, he's always wanted a jukebox and got it fairly cheap as it had a problem with the selector arm mechanism.

The machine will power up and seem to be operating just fine, you can select a record to play, but the problem occurs when the mechanism moves along and picks up the record. It will select the correct one, but then immediately puts it back and returns to its standby position without playing it. It will happily do this as many times as you select a record, it will just keep putting it back without playing it. We're not jukebox restorers, we don't know what's wrong, we hoped we could find the answer somewhere and apply a repair. The guy we bought it from said it was fixable, he just didn't have the time to get around to it hence the reason he was selling it.

Any ideas? Any links would be useful too.

Make: Seeburg
Model: EU100 290 H5
Serial: 151057

Cheers guys.

Welcome !
It would be helpful if you had posted your location in your profile--
I would suggest that you should purchase the "Service Manual Set" (see "where to find"--in announcements above), and I would also suggest that my "Seeburg Mechanism Guide", would also be of help to you--My guess, from what you have written, is the clutch fork pin has frozen to the clutch fork (aka yoke). Ron Rich

Hello Sentarum

Rich's books will greatly assist you in resolving your problems as well as becoming familiar with your phono. It is fixable as stated.

I can only add that you may want to supplement this material with info found on Tony Millers web site listed above: "Tony Miller's Seeburg site is now BACK ! "

Darrell

Oops, sorry Ron, forgot to do that. I'm over the pond in the land of tea and crumpets; England.

Thanks guys, I've purchased the service manual set for the U100 (I understand now this is the same as the EU100 and the E simply denotes it was an export model) and have sent you a message via e-mail for your guide, Ron.

"in the land of tea and crumpets"--himmmm, my Grandma was a "Britt"--she had the most wonderful way of being filthy, dirty mouthed, without ever using a "bad word" --I sat and listened to her "stories" as a teenager, for hours--till my sides hurt from laughing . Ron Rich

Hello Sentarum,

If you get stuck and require a service engineer to look at your fathers Seeburg please contact me and I can advise you of engineers in your area and a number of very good roving jukebox engineers.

Regards
Alan

Alan Hood
ami-man
UK

Thanks Alan, will do that if I have a crack at it myself and am totally stuck.

I'm an electrical/electronic engineer by trade, this shouldn't be too much of a stretch once I understand how it works.

"Sentarum" If the machine is stopping at selections it may be a very straightforward problem.

Locate the manual trip lever. This is a small lever to the left of the motor and approximately between the two sets of cam switches. If you watch the mech trip you'll see it pop up.

First, select a record and when the mech trips the manual lever should quickly lay back down. Hold your finger on it as the record rises and try to push it back down.

If it refuses to go down and stay down there is an electrical problem. Check that the trip switch to the left of the tone arm is being reset and disconnect any reject switch on the cabinet rear. With machine power off, use a meter to check that these switches are open.


If you can push down the trip lever and the record then plays, there is a mechanical bind in the clutch assembly (behind the motor) probably due to a lack of lubrication.

I can post a Seeburg lube chart when I get back to one of the machines that have it stored.

Rob/NYC