Jukebox-list January 2026

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LPAD for side speakers - Rowe Ami
by Nigel Pugh 11 Jan '26

11 Jan '26

Hi all, For more years than I can recall, my JBM Tropicana has been across the corner of the room. Due to a room redesign it now can only go in one place, along a straight wall, one side speaker about 8 inches from the wall, and the other open to the complete room. The rub is the one open to the complete room now faces the seating area and the direct sound from that reaches your ears before the front facing bass does. So I have midrange overload in my ear until I walk in front of the machine and then it sounds fantastic. So I had an idea to use the speaker transformer taps to reduce both sides speaker outputs. This has absolutely fixed the issue, which I can only describe as a Rowe Ami design feature probably to show off stereo in its early days but a bit annoying. I remember having to do this on someone's Continental 2 30 odd years ago. Anyhow this is my ask here. The outpost difference between the 2 speaker taps is too large. It goes from lots of side speaker output to not that much. I would like to vary it. Could I use 2 LPADs connected to each side speaker, set them on high output tags and use the pots to lower the output to the sides ? This way I could get the precise output I want and also compensate for the fact that the other side speaker is smashing the sound up the wall which is reflecting it back more than the speaker in the open room. Hope that makes sense - it's a question about LPADs. Are they ok with tube amps. The spec is 8ohm each side speaker. Thanks, Regards Nigel

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Seeburg Turntable bushing replacement
by Jukebox Repairman 05 Jan '26

05 Jan '26

So just curious. With all the expertise on this group nobody has ever replaced TT Bushings and care to offer any suggestions on performing the operation correctly? Regards Rick

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Missing pages for Wurlitzer KIT 102 - adding Cobra Tone Arm to 1015 or 1080
by John Robertson 02 Jan '26

02 Jan '26

Hi Gang, Please check if you have any documentation on the KIT 102 - specifically Sketches 1, 2, and 4, as well as an overall schematic. This is what I have currently - thanks to Matt Potter: https://www.flippers.com/pdfs/Wurlitzer_USA/Kit-102_Cobra_Install_on_1015-1… What I have is missing those pages and while it explains how the kit is installed and set up those pages would aid in troubleshooting. The kit's pre-amp does NOT match the schematics for the 1100 Cobra pre-amp... Thanks! John :-#)# -- John's Jukes Ltd. 7 - 3979 Marine Way, Burnaby, BC, Canada V5J 5E3 Call (604)872-5757 (Pinballs, Jukes, Video Games) flippers.com "Old pinballers never die, they just flip out"

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Fast Autoranging DMM
by Tony Miklos 02 Jan '26

02 Jan '26

Does anyone know/use a really fast autoranging meter? I'm looking at this one to try. (I didn't see a price yet) I think it takes .8 seconds to read but I got that spec somewhere else. https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/fastest-dmm-ohm-autoranging-suggesti… I'm so used to my ancient Beckman 310 being so quick, but it isn't auto-ranging, so that of course makes it slow if I have to turn the dial. -- Tony Miklos Tony's Jukebox Repair

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