[Jukebox-list] Seeburg SS160: Red Tone Arm

[Jjmscf at aol.com]

On the older types how do you repair them? Do you have the special fluid? 
 
Also can the damping be weakened by spraying a lot of  water and  degreaser 
into the mechanism? I was paranoid about this when I cleaned the LPC1  mech 
which needed a lot of Dow scrubbing Bubbles,Gunk engine degreaser ,water  and 
even some disassembly and scrubbing to get it clean and get things  unstuck.By 
far the worst Seeburg mech I had ever seen.It's clean as a pin now.  Almost 
looks new and works flawlessly. So I removed the tonearm assy and  cleaned it more 
gingerly trying to keep cleaner away from the pivot where the  damping fluid 
was.
 
J.C.
 
 
In a message dated 11/2/2006 1:36:43 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
ronnnrich at yahoo.com writes:

>The  red painted tone arm as used in the SS-160, and some LS-1 models, had a 
 >defect that allowed the damping fluid to leak out. When this happens, the  
tone >arm / needle bounces hard against the record at needle set down,  
causing the >needle support to break. Later  tone arms were painted a  "green 
color", made >differently, and tend to retain the fluid much  better--although, I 
have seen some of >these fail also (and I  can  repair the new style, as well as 
all the older styles, >except for the red  SS-160 type).