[Jukebox-list] Rockola 1438 Slug Ejector Problem

[Aaron Heverin]

That's a point I've always tried to make with clients who purchased AMIs from me in the past. I realize that putting a jukebox on free-play is a convenience - and a way to "buck the system" by getting something for free that you never would have been able to get had the jukebox been on location. But free-play takes away one aspect of the jukebox that makes it such a charm to have in a home. That "Select" light comes on after you drop in your coin as a way of saying "I'm at your disposal. Play me." I've got a jukebox here at my office that I put on freeplay only because my other co-workers were complaining that they never had enough change to play it. :)

Which brings me to a question I'd like to ask - since we're on the topic of the National slug rejectors. My AMI G-120 had the living piss beaten out of it this past holiday season with all of the parties we had. It's currently set up to take dimes (for 1 play) and quarters (for 3 plays). I realize that I can tinker with the settings within the AMI's credit unit to get more plays for dimes and quarters, but is there anything that can be done to the National rejector so that it can take a nickel? Many of my older jukeboxes all take nickels so I have thousands of them in all of the cups we have scattered around the house. I was running out of dimes and quarters for the G and had to keep opening it to empty the cashbox! I just thought it would be neat to have the thing accept a nickel. Any way to do this without major surgery? In restoring a juke, I was always more concerned about making the slug rejectors work properly and never gave a thought to "retro fitting" one. Was there a part that was removed from the rejector so that a nickel would just drop right out?

What was that old school of thought?...."you can't buy a cup of coffee for a nickel any more so why should you get a tune out of a jukebox for the same amount?"

Aaron Heverin