[Jukebox-list] Seeburg Switch Contacts

[Bob E.]

At 12:29 AM 12/3/06 -0800, you wrote:
>Bob,
>  You have answered your own question--you can "set" all the toroid's with
a battery---I usually just wash the keyboard with hot sudsy ammonia and
water (remove the latch bar solenoid first). I try not to do any "tweaking",
as I find that it does not last, and in my opinion makes matters no better.
As far as I know, the contacts are silver plated. I have in "worst cases",
taken the switch bank apart and cleaned the slider portions with a "Dremmel"
type tool. I know people who do that as a matter of course.  Spray cleaners
that leave anything on the contacts are absolutely going to give you
"multiple selection" problems down the road.

Thanks...I know Dr. Know-it-all talks about taking the switch banks apart and
cleaning with a Dremel tool...but that involves un-bending little bent tabs that
hold the switch bodies together, and I was afraid of breaking them off...
unless there is another way to take them apart.  But that didn't answer my
question...
is there really enough juice in the circuit to "cook" a switch contact so it
burns
and loses springiness?  I don't think a D-cell could do that.

>  Question for you---what do you mean when you say "--tried to play every
position--" ? Either it will play each and every one, or you still have a
read-out/trip problem.

Well, I didn't have any records in the rack, and I have a gummy reject
switch that
I left in the "gummed-on" position, so I didn't have to stand there and push
the 
reject button on the back 160 times!  It just sat there and did it's
pick-n-reject
cycle on its own.  Selectomatic calisthenics!  But it looks like I will need to 
locate a fresh end-of-record reject switch soon...

--Bob

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