Unchained melody by Les Baxter on a Seeburg Trashcan jukebox

Hear the good sound of this 1946 restored jukebox in my home in Italy.

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Music

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• jukebox
• seeburg
• unchained
• melody
• baxter

[Meggibleu]

Bella!

[JbrickM100A]

2agray Yes, it's really getting hard to repair these guys; we're talking about a machine over half a century years old. I have to admit I too want perfection all the time and sometimes forget what I'm dealing with. I'm lucky to have a great mechanic who has taught me a lot just watching him. I'm going to have to learn myself at some point in time how to service my 2 boxes since this guy will retire some day. If you know where I could get a good deal on a trashcan or a M100A let me know please. 

[2agray]

@JbrickM100A LOL! I remember in the 70's when they went to all the box looking ones, I would do the same thing. Peep through the "now playing" indicator in the glass to watch them play. I'm with you about watching the records change but a trashcans just amazes people. I was going to get rid of mine but that's the one people zero in on the most out of all the others. I remember Seeburg V's and 201's being all over the place.

[2agray]

@OlegKostoglatov There may be one problem with it but when you repair that one problem it sets up a domino effect and something else will go wrong and then it's your fault! You touched it last! They are going to sue and you'd better fix it right this time and not charge them anything. They don't want to totally restore the machine. Just patch it up and that doesn't work.

[2agray]

@OlegKostoglatov You know I hadn't thought about that! You're right. People get jukeboxes and then realize they aren't just a record player. They are a complicated system and it's getting very hard to find people to work on them and the parts and labor are not cheap. I still get service calls frequently but I just don't do it anymore. People don't understand that you are dealing with a 40 - 60 year old machine.

[OlegKostoglatov]

@2agray I've been finding that with a lot of jukes lately, people picked them (particularly car guys) with the idea of turning their rec room into a diner and found out that they are much more complex to repair and maintain then they realized so they eventually put them up for sale. As to the muddy sound there can be a number of reasons for that, bad bias resistors on the power output tubes being one, it may be a matter of slightly redesigning the circuits as well for better treble response.

[yaktur]

Very nice! But the dome looks like from a 1948. I used to have one when I was young.

[JbrickM100A]

I'd love to have a Trashcan but the only drawback was you couldn't see the mechanism or the record playing although after looking all over as a young boy, I found  the vent slit in the back and I could watch the record spin. The records were on trays, 10 on each side of the turntable. As a selection was made, the tray would slide over the top of the turntable as it came up and brought it to the top to play and then return it to the tray and the tray would slide back in its slot.

[2agray]

The trashcans always get such a great response from guests. They just never sounded really clear. They were a bit muddy. They are a fantastic conversation piece and you can still pick them up cheap. They made a million of them.

[DivineLight59]

Neverknew how jute boxes were hee