Post by juke46 on Jun 19, 2020 19:42:48 GMT
Rock-Ola 1422, 1426 – Misbehaving
I have restored several of these and currently own two of them. I have always cleaned and lubed the mechanisms for a flawless operation. I purchased a really rough machine and it now looks decent but the mechanism has been difficult for me. It is much smarter than I.
Make a selection and the SEECTOR SHAFT (part of the SELECTOR ASSEMBLY) lowers to locate the brass SELECTOR KEY that moved out when a selection was made. The selected record is located and played. As the record completes playing the return of the record to the stack causes a cancel plate to push the SELECTOR KEY in (anyway it should push it back in). This allows a STARTING GATE to return to “home” position ending the cycle unless additional selections have been made.
For some unknown reason, to me, the brass SELECTOR KEY is not pushed in so the mechanism continues to run instead of stopping as designed, with all trays in and the SELECTOR SHAFT parked at the top. Instead the selector shaft drops to the bottom of its travel and record tray 20 is selected and played, Tray 20, being the default tray if no others are selected. If multiple selections have been made it will play those and still end up at tray 20 and play record 20. At the conclusion of record 20 completing play all brass selector keys are now pushed in and the mechanism parks as it should. Writing this I am missing how that selector key gets pushed in after record 20 has played. I am missing something!
I'll be cycling it some more observing and hoping to find a reason for this mechanism's misbehavior and/or conditions and faults I have missed. I quit today, Anna thinks I should sell the thing for parts!
I have restored several of these and currently own two of them. I have always cleaned and lubed the mechanisms for a flawless operation. I purchased a really rough machine and it now looks decent but the mechanism has been difficult for me. It is much smarter than I.
Make a selection and the SEECTOR SHAFT (part of the SELECTOR ASSEMBLY) lowers to locate the brass SELECTOR KEY that moved out when a selection was made. The selected record is located and played. As the record completes playing the return of the record to the stack causes a cancel plate to push the SELECTOR KEY in (anyway it should push it back in). This allows a STARTING GATE to return to “home” position ending the cycle unless additional selections have been made.
For some unknown reason, to me, the brass SELECTOR KEY is not pushed in so the mechanism continues to run instead of stopping as designed, with all trays in and the SELECTOR SHAFT parked at the top. Instead the selector shaft drops to the bottom of its travel and record tray 20 is selected and played, Tray 20, being the default tray if no others are selected. If multiple selections have been made it will play those and still end up at tray 20 and play record 20. At the conclusion of record 20 completing play all brass selector keys are now pushed in and the mechanism parks as it should. Writing this I am missing how that selector key gets pushed in after record 20 has played. I am missing something!
I'll be cycling it some more observing and hoping to find a reason for this mechanism's misbehavior and/or conditions and faults I have missed. I quit today, Anna thinks I should sell the thing for parts!
