[Jukebox-list] Re: Aireon jukebox for sale, S.F. Bay area.

[dirksenj at bellsouth.net]

The records are standing on edge in a magazine with thin metal seperators 
between them. When the magazine stops at the selected spot, the record is 
pushed out by a metal arm on the left. It literally rolls out of the 
magazine down a narrow track where it enters a "cage" which houses a 
vertical turntable platter. Then the turntable is rotated 90 degrees up to 
the tonearm, where it plays in a normal fashion. There is no record gripper. 
Alignment is critical, and as Wes says, the mechanism doesn't care if the 
record is transferred or not. I've seen them break records three different 
ways - once because the record was still part way in the magazine while the 
turntable rotated, once because the record is bouncing around inside the 
"cage" after playing and rotating back, and it was not lined up with the 
magazine as it got shoved back, and finally because the pusher arm was not 
all the way back as the magazine started to move to the next selection. This 
breaks every record in it's path. The mech is very powerful and the 
crunching sound is not nice to hear. This is why I only made one selection 
at a time. Then I would open the door to see if everything was OK before 
making the next one. This got old real quick and I was glad to be rid of 
that machine. One fatal flaw? I don't think so. Even when the mech functions 
as it should, it is rough on records. The edges get chipped, spindle holes 
enlarged, and the grooves get scratched as the records scrapes along the 
guides on it's way back and forth to the magazine. Still, it's an 
interesting machine, and lights up pretty. People pay a lot more than $500 
for art that hangs on the wall.

Jim
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mechanical Music of S.F." <mechanicalmusic at hotmail.com>
To: <jukebox-list at lists.netlojix.com>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 3:17 PM
Subject: [Jukebox-list] Re: Aireon jukebox for sale, S.F. Bay area.


> Re: Wes adding a dynamic brake to the turntable.
>
> Sounds like otherwise, the records may have been gripped crooked, or 
> literally driven themselves part way, or completely free of, the gripper 
> arm during transfer. That would set up an ugly situation for sure.
> I wonder if a rubber coating at the grip points would also do the trick?
>
> Wow. ONE fatal flaw.
> You have to wonder if Aireon would have become a real player, how it would 
> have affected the styling of the jukebox over the next several decades.
> I think Raymond Loewy was a genius.
>
> Kyle ~
> Mechanical Music of San Francisco
>
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