[Jukebox-list] Seeburg SS160: Red Tone Arm

[Ron Rich]

Yes, I have the correct fluid.
  Cleaning won't hurt them--a VERY high temp may. Ron Rich

Jjmscf at aol.com wrote:
  
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).



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