[Jukebox-list] Re: AMI Continental problem

[David Breneman]

--- Ron Rich <ronnnrich at yahoo.com> wrote:

>   Rowe bought out AMi either prior to, or during the Cont. One
> years. I have been told that they brought in a whole new
> engineering staff--guess that's why the mech changes.

I've never seen a Continental mechanism up close, but I
do have a G-200 and a JAN-200, and it seems apparent that
the prime motivator for redesigning the mechanism was to
take advantage of new manufacturing processes that
came about in the 1950s.  If you look at the original
200 selection mechanism, its full of cast and machined
parts.  Imagine what it would cost today to make the
selection pin assembly in one of those?  The newer
mechanism, in contrast, has almost no cast or machined
parts.  They're all stamped metal or molded plastic.
That mechanism, with a boatload of modifications to be
sure, is still being made today.  I'd imagine that the
tooling for the new mechanism paid for itself in
pretty short order.


David Breneman         david_breneman at yahoo.com

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