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Title: Looking for someone with reapair knowlage of 70s era Wurlitzer jukes
Post by: br549autosales on March 11, 2014, 02:19:55 PM: I am working on a 1977 Wurlitzer X5 jukebox and am having some sound and selection issues. The sound is only @ 50% at full volume and it will only select 25 or so songs, the rest of them the record carousel just continues to spin but will not select and play the record. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Title: Re: Looking for someone with reapair knowlage of 70s era Wurlitzer jukes
Post by: LINDAM on March 11, 2014, 04:21:52 PM: Steve is pretty much in the know when it comes to Juke boxes.

Lindsay
Title: Re: Looking for someone with reapair knowlage of 70s era Wurlitzer jukes
Post by: br549autosales on March 11, 2014, 04:36:42 PM: slotsteve?
Title: Re: Looking for someone with reapair knowlage of 70s era Wurlitzer jukes
Post by: LINDAM on March 11, 2014, 04:44:56 PM: He du man.
Title: Re: Looking for someone with reapair knowlage of 70s era Wurlitzer jukes
Post by: br549autosales on March 11, 2014, 05:09:15 PM: Thanks, I'll give him a shout
Title: Re: Looking for someone with reapair knowlage of 70s era Wurlitzer jukes
Post by: buybestslots on March 12, 2014, 05:10:32 AM: if it was a 70,s rock, seebreg or rowe I could help I know sh t about wurlitzers , I have 3 here I can not get going they were winter project that like a lot of other stuff got pushed to back burner, we been very busy since oct
sorry
steve
Title: Re: Looking for someone with reapair knowlage of 70s era Wurlitzer jukes
Post by: br549autosales on March 12, 2014, 06:19:18 AM: Well I do have a Rock Ola 483 that I need some advice on, are you familiar with that model?

Thanks,

David
Title: Re: Looking for someone with reapair knowlage of 70s era Wurlitzer jukes
Post by: buybestslots on March 13, 2014, 10:23:08 AM: whats it not doing?
Title: Re: Looking for someone with reapair knowlage of 70s era Wurlitzer jukes
Post by: br549autosales on March 13, 2014, 10:34:42 AM: :Please_Post_Pictures_2:

It will not attempt to select a record, the carousel will not turn. I can manually turn the motor on the bottom of the carousel and it will turn/spin. There is another motor, I'm guessing that may be for the control arm, that I can turn a few revolutions but it gets in a bind and will not go any further. I can take pictures of the area of the motor that won't turn all the way and post them if that helps any.

Thanks,

David
Title: Re: Looking for someone with reapair knowlage of 70s era Wurlitzer jukes
Post by: buybestslots on March 13, 2014, 10:46:03 AM: 1st make sure there nothing jammed in record rack . those motors should be on with 3 screws or blots I would drop them down and see if they turn when they have nothing to turn , those motors jammed a lot if units where sitting a while, there is a small opening held by 1 screw that you can open on motor to see inside make sure no rust in there , the motor that movers record gripper might not work if tone arm or gripper is jammed but same deal drop it down and try by hand
Title: Re: Looking for someone with reapair knowlage of 70s era Wurlitzer jukes
Post by: br549autosales on March 13, 2014, 02:04:34 PM: I took the motor with 3 10mm bolts loose and dropped it away from the gears and it turns just fine. The record gripper is in the over the carousel position, the tone arm is is in the non playing position and appears to be locked into that position. The turntable is turning as if there was a record on it. What controls the gripper arm and or the tone arm? I did not see a motor that turns either one of them unless I'm overlooking it.
Title: Re: Looking for someone with reapair knowlage of 70s era Wurlitzer jukes
Post by: buybestslots on March 13, 2014, 02:38:26 PM: should be a 2nd motor like the one for record rack , but 2nd motor works gripper and tone arm , if its missing that could be your trouble
Title: Re: Looking for someone with reapair knowlage of 70s era Wurlitzer jukes
Post by: br549autosales on March 13, 2014, 02:48:15 PM: I am seeing 2 motors total, 1 for the carousel and the other I believe is for the tone arm and gripper, that particular motor is the one that han the 2 bolts and I took it loose and it is turning fine but when it is engaged with the gears/spindles that (from what I can tell) that operate the gear shaft that operates the gripper and tone arm, it binds up. So it looks like the gear shaft is what is locked up, I inspected it pretty good but don't see anything that could be causing it to bind up and not move
Title: Re: Looking for someone with reapair knowlage of 70s era Wurlitzer jukes
Post by: buybestslots on March 13, 2014, 05:13:41 PM: out of gripper comes a wedge like part that grips the record make sure that if free
Title: Re: Looking for someone with reapair knowlage of 70s era Wurlitzer jukes
Post by: br549autosales on March 14, 2014, 06:20:42 AM: That part seems to be fine. All I guess I can do now is to remove the gripper assembly from the jukebox and see what's got it in a bind by removing piece by piece to see where the problem is. I'm not sure if this is the correct picture of the parts list for this model, but it looks pretty close.
Title: Re: Looking for someone with reapair knowlage of 70s era Wurlitzer jukes
Post by: buybestslots on March 14, 2014, 06:26:27 AM: you did drop gripper motor, and there js still no movement
Title: Re: Looking for someone with reapair knowlage of 70s era Wurlitzer jukes
Post by: br549autosales on March 14, 2014, 07:12:28 AM: drpped the gripper motor and it spins fine as does the carousel motor. The gripper arm is just above the carousel and with the motor dropped i can only manually lift it 3/4" or so, the gears won't move any further than that to allow it to come up and over to where it would place the record on the turntable. The tone arm is all the way towards the rear of the jukebox and it won't move either.
Title: Re: Looking for someone with reapair knowlage of 70s era Wurlitzer jukes
Post by: br549autosales on March 14, 2014, 07:15:59 AM: I see nothin externally that could be causing the gripper assembly to be binding up so I'm guessing it has to be internal?
Title: Re: Looking for someone with reapair knowlage of 70s era Wurlitzer jukes
Post by: buybestslots on March 14, 2014, 07:34:10 AM: try lifting tone arm off the pin its on it should only be 1 inch or so from edge of record on turntable , sounds like tone arm is in wrong spot send me a pic to buybest@aol.com , if tone arm is on wrong side of tonearm cam everything will jam
Title: Re: Looking for someone with reapair knowlage of 70s era Wurlitzer jukes
Post by: br549autosales on March 14, 2014, 08:00:34 AM: pics sent, thanks!
Title: Re: Looking for someone with reapair knowlage of 70s era Wurlitzer jukes
Post by: jukeboxmarty on May 25, 2014, 07:32:12 PM: Quote from: br549autosales on March 14, 2014, 07:15:59 AM
I see nothin externally that could be causing the gripper assembly to be binding up so I'm guessing it has to be internal?

Just wondering if you ever resolved your issue.

-Marty