[Jukebox-list] RE: Animation Motor Rockola 437

[Bob Ellingson]

At 02:00 PM 4/3/2007 -0700, you wrote:
>
>Jackquie-ee-y,
>
>So, you got someone to do the amplifier locally? That's great.
>
>A simple cap job should be easy with the cap kit, schematic, and anyone 
>locally who does TV or radio repair.
>
>I'm looking at that for both the amplifier and control center in the 
>Seebooger AY160 I just acquired.
>Hopefully I can do it all myself.   I did a cap kit on a DS160 (virtually 
>identical) control center and there were a few small caps I couldn't figure 
>out where they went.  Luckily the small flat ones don't seem to go bad like 
>the big ones.  It worked just fine.

Uhhh, that's the DS I bought in Dublin, right?  Were you the one that wrote
a question mark in Sharpie on a couple of the orange-drops?  I'll grant you,
that amp (and the virtually identical AY) amp has a reputation for not being
all that friendly to work on... even Dr. Know-it-all says so.  But it did work,
after I got in and changed out a couple of cathode resistors that had drifted
wildly in value.  I may go back into it and do a better tune-up later.  I think
I need to pay attention to the tone circuitry, it has sort of boomy bass even
on the minimum setting...the "Shut 'em dow-w-w-w-n" refrain on the Rip Chords
"Hey Little Cobra" really gets the feedback going.  I like that jukebox a lot,
though.

--Bob
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