Post by doghouseriley on Jun 27, 2020 15:15:52 GMT
Well, I hope it was.
For years I've had a problem with my Rock-Ola 468. When I turned it on, it would sometimes trip out during the playing of the first record and I'd have to press the mechanism circuit breaker, to get it to go again.
As I keep it in our unheated summerhouse, I keep a 60w lamp in the bottom in the winter and put a couple of blankets over it and have a rechargeable dehumidifier in it to ward off any damp.
I was always using the scan lever to turn it over and play a couple of records every few days in the winter months. But more often or not it'd trip out during the first couple of scans, then behave itself. I was always pushing the play relay to make sure it was seated properly, as it's a big relay and vibration could disturb it. Over the years I've sprayed the contacts a few times with Servisol.
But the other day after it had tripped out, I noticed that pushing on it was actually pushing the socket back a bit, which was not secured to the front plate as well as it could be. So I held the point of a watchmaker's screwdriver on the top of the plastic socket to keep it firm, then pushed the relay again. It went in a bit further.
It's been behaving perfectly ever since.
Manchester is a sort of desert as far as jukebox service people are concerned so a visit from an engineer who'd have to travel a long distance would have cost me a fortune. So I'm quite pleased.
