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[Jjmscf at aol.com]

Lol.I don't think I would opren one of those up for nothing in the world.But 
I guess there are dummies who do it.I was kinda worried when I started working 
on the SS 160 you sent me speakers for as one of the screws that held it 
together was backed out about a 1/4 inch but the other side and seal was 
intact.And the tormat worked with a little upward pressure on the contact block when 
first tried before cleaning and adjustment....lol.
In fact this filthy mech worked the best of all the 5 60s Seeburgs I got in 1 
lot before I started tearing it down for cleaning.I'm working on all the 
insides of the 5 Seeburgs now as I can just bring everything in and work in the 
air conditioning. When it's cooler weather I'll work on the cabinets and 
cosmetics.Except it's got the red tone arm and no damping whatsoever.That needle hit 
that record hard..lol. Good thing I didn't have good needles in it.I got the 
good one to install from ebay so I'm good there.As far as the others good thing 
there's hundreds of Seeburg mechs out there .You should have seen the bent 
and destroyed parts I have found.I even found a clutch shifting lever with the 
holes for the roller reamed out and the sides bent up with piers and the spring 
hook shaft loose and the shaft that holds it broke loose in the trip 
mechanism mounting plate.Unfortunately only a lever from an LPC series jukebox will 
work as I quickly found out when I attempted a swap from a parts mech.No tab to 
lift the reversing relay on trip and to keep it from locking in while 
scanning. I got a friend sending me the rest of the mechanism I should have gotten in 
the first place when they sent me a few LPC480 mech parts...lol.Oh and I found 
another mech completely missing that casting I had broken on one...lol. And 
another with one side of the trip switch lever cut off where the counterbalance 
spring attaches.
 
It is a shame when innocent  and no longer made jukebox parts are destroyed 
by some hack.I have to admit I've broken a few by accident though.I broke one 
of those plastic detent switch levers once  and a reversing switch once.Both 
parts are pretty vulnerable if you're not careful especially the reversing 
switch on a mech removed from the base.But the parts I found  broke were by force 
and purposely done.No other way they got that way.
 
J.C.
 
 
In a message dated 8/13/2007 10:50:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
ronnnrich at yahoo.com writes:

>BUT--only if  "people" keep their "paws" out of the Tormat Unit itself.(for 
those of you who do not >know, there is NOTHING inside the Tormat to 
"fix"--just things to brake)  Ron Rich





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