[Jukebox-list] Seeburg Switch Contacts

[Jjmscf at aol.com]

I use Dow Scrubbing Bubbles to clean the keyboard and nearly everything in  
the jukebox.It makes mechs look like new and if you're careful even amps and  
control centers.You should have seen the sticky gummy mess on the LPC1 keyboard 
 I was working on. I know why they put most of the electronic keyboards on a  
vertical plane...lol.So many drinks had been spilled in this keyboard it 
wasn't  funny.It cleaned right up and where I can see the contacts it removed 
every bit  of the black tarnish.Even seems to work on some mild rusting if you 
scrub at  it.Except for some rust at the top where it sits when in the 
jukebox.That  rust was pretty heavy.But the keyboard works flawlessy. I'm glad A1 sells  
pricing glasses for this series jukebox now. They're pretty trashed also. I  
would say with all the cigarette tar and spilled drinks it spent it's working  
life in a bar for sure.
 
J.C.
 
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 12/4/2006 12:04:39 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
bobe at halted.com writes:

>Thanks Wes (and Tony!), that sort of confirms my suspicions.   I took my
>TES up to see Ron Rich this afternoon, to let the local  Seeburg witch doctor
>hold the switch bank up to his one good eye with  his one good hand...he 
>pronounced the three discolored switch contacts  as merely tarnished silver.
>He then muttered some incantations, and  brought out his secret ju-ju water
>("Sudzy Ammonia") and anointed the  afflicted switches.  And Lo!  The
>resistance went to  zero!

>It was just more of the sticky dried crap I'm finding  everywhere in that 
>machine, I suspect the previous owner was fond of  WD-40....Booo!  Hiss!

>Anyway, thanks Ron, and try to take it  easy on that shoulder so you can 
>heal up and once again lift SMC  Seeburgs into the back of your pickup!