[Jukebox-list] AMI E120 procedure for aligning racks?

[John Robertson]

Carmack wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> Restoring an AMI E120 from a bunch of parts in boxes.  Got the 
> mechanism working fairly well, except for a couple of small gremlins.  
> One of the gremlins that's plaguing me is the record rack alignment.  
> While scanning, the gripper will drag on records inconsistently.   
> There seems to be some slop in the mechanism that causes a drag in one 
> direction to be perfect alignment in the other.  Some "drags" make the 
> records physically move in the rack, but when the mech is stopped on 
> that portion of the rack, everything appears to line up perfectly, 
> both vertically and laterally when viewed from the side of the rack.  
> I've adjusted the bolts till I'm blue in the face.  Is there a 
> "proper" procedure for this?  The service manuals don't seem to give 
> any information on alignment except for turntable-to-gripper.  I've 
> noticed some of the AMI E's on Youtube do the same thing as well.  Is 
> this just a quirk of this series?  How do our wise experts deal with 
> this?
>
> Thank you!
>
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The only adjustment on that is the placement of the tip of the gripper 
box, AND the alignment of the two record racks.

If the gripper bow (and/or the plunger) is NOT dropping to the same 
position each time, then chances are it is gummed up somewhat and needs 
to be taken apart, washed with Varsol, then reassembled and oiled.

John :-#)#

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