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Coin Slot Magazine - #088 - 1982 - June[International Arcade Museum]
was cut only from the cabinet The 24-select mechanism
remained intact and the sound system superior to any
prior model. Today the collector weighs the value of
the jukebox mostly on the cabinet style. The 950 may
have been short of a mechanical and audio disaster,
although the cabinet is the most beautiful. The 1100 is
the Plain Jane of the 1940s. When a suitable set of
replacement plastics are made available for the 1100,
many 1100s will receive the face lift they need. The
1100 will prove to be one of the best buys for the
money at the present. It still has the charm of the 40s,
but the blush in the cheeks had worn to a grey. By the
time the model 1250 was introduced in 1950, the sun
had set for the classics. A new decade was beginning
for Wurlitzer and those years are another story.
Footnote:
As the song "Where Have all the Flowers Gone" in
the 1960's, the same applies to Wurlitzer jukeboxes.
Where did they all go? A small percentage went
straight to the dump. They were stripped of any usable
mechanical parts and scrapped. Another small per
centage was forgotten at the jukebox's last location.
The majority ended up in the operator's warehouse
and private owners purchased them for their base
ments. This accounts for 60 to 75 percent of the total
amount manufactured. The rest were shipped overseas
from the factory in the 1940's, and in the 1950's the 78
rpm jukeboxes found their way to South America and
Latin America. Many of the 78 rpm record presses also
followed when the United States market totally had
converted to 45 rpm in 1959. It was cheaper to press
78 rpm recordings rather than convert to 45 rpm in the
less developed countries. These 78 rpm records were
still being pressed in the late 1970's in South America
to supply the abundance of 78 rpm American jukeboxes
An indication that the larger platter is beginning to lose
popularity is when a Midwestern jukebox dealer can
purchase 87 model 1015's in Brazil and profitably
compete with current U.S. prices after shipping costs.
With so many 78 rpm jukeboxes to the south of us, and
with an ample supply of records, why not get every bit
of usefulness from what is considered antique here?
Somehow I have the feeling that more large groups of
jukeboxes will be arriving in the near future. How will
they affect the market? Let's wait and see.
Pinball Troubleshooting
Continued from page 39
'normally closed' switches the exact reverse of this
should occur, the actuator blade moving by a small
amount before the points start to open and by a similar
amount after the points separate. Reference to Figures
2A and 2B should help to illustrate override.
Adjusting of switches for proper override
should be performed by slightly bending
the 'non-actuated' blade (the one not
moved by the external device). The switch
should be in its open position (for'normally
closed' switches the switch should be actuated by hand
to open the points). The blade should be bent slightly in
whichever direction is necessary to provide a small
gap between the two mating points. This bending
should be done using a special contact adjusting tool
or a small pair of needle nose pliers gripping the blade
immediately adjacent to its fixed end. The switch
should then be actuated by hand (or released in the
case of a 'normally closed' switch) observing when the
points first touch and then noticing if both blades
continue to move a small distance further, as described
above. If enough override does not occur readjust the
blade until proper override is obtained.
It may take a person a while to develop this point
adjusting technique (it is not easy) but once perfected
it will be one of the most important skills in game
maintenance. One should very seldom have to bend
the 'actuator blade' of the switch unless it has become
bent itself. Also remember that an 'SPDT switch has
both a 'normally open' and a 'normally closed' side,
each of which should be treated as a separate switch.
Once one side is adjusted the other side's adjustment
should be rechecked since movement of the common
actuator blade can occur during adjustment.
This completes the discussion of pingame compon
ents. Next month some of the basic circuit configur
ations used in games will be discussed starting with
connections of switches to perform complex switching
functions
CORRECTION:
The Coin Slot regrets the error made in Jerry
Noel's ad in the May, 1982 issue on page 16. We
hope this has not caused any inconvenience. The
last item for sale should have read:
(7) Cash Registers: 4 National, 1 American,
1 Illinois and 1 Michigan,
for all $1,800
Jerry Noel
points to rub slightly against one another providing a
type of self cleaning action for the points' surfaces A
general rule for the proper amount of override would
be that the actuator blade should continue to move,
after the points first touch each other, by an amount
about equal to its movement from its rest position to
the position where this touching first occurs. For
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