I have an Americana i'm working on. if you make a selection the buttons latch but then a substantial long delay before they release and the magazine starts rotating. Wondering what is causing this? Leaking cap, cube relay? I'm not a wurlitzer guy so looking for help.
Thanks Rick
I would clean the: cube relays and re-test. I once tried to narrow down to specific relays but gave up when I found a couple were linked. I just clean all.
Selector switch board leaf switches and re-test.
Credit unit leaf switches and te-test. There is a red relay here also.
Strips of business card dipped in Craig De-Oxit works for me.
Shankar Singh
On Jan 20, 2026, at 14:17, Jukebox Repairman via Jukebox-list jukebox-list@lists.netlojix.com wrote:
I have an Americana i'm working on. if you make a selection the buttons latch but then a substantial long delay before they release and the magazine starts rotating. Wondering what is causing this? Leaking cap, cube relay? I'm not a wurlitzer guy so looking for help.
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Rick -
My W2910 was doing this years ago...after pressing the key combo....it started to buzz...the mech took off searching...and finally the keys released. I swear...and likely unrelated, I replaced the cap/resistor...something in the junction box....and it cleaned it up. Here we are now....and it's been doing it again for a year or so.....press keys....starts to buzz...mech starts...and finally they release....can be 10 seconds or so....Guess it would help if I lifted the dome...and found out where the buzzing is. Probably where my fault is. I don't play it much...so have not got back into it. Hopefully someone here with much more experience than me....can help us both out.
Good luck.
-richmyers
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I have an Americana i'm working on. if you make a selection the buttons latch but then a substantial long delay before they release and the magazine starts rotating. Wondering what is causing this? Leaking cap, cube relay? I'm not a wurlitzer guy so looking for help.
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Hey Rich, longtime no hear. Yeah so this one doesn’t make any noise at all. Buttons latch then nothing. Then after a minute or sometimes even longer the buttons release and carousel rotates to and plays the selection. Selector contacts are clean and adjusted.
Regards Rick
On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 6:27 PM richmyers@att.net wrote:
Rick -
My W2910 was doing this years ago...after pressing the key combo....it started to buzz...the mech took off searching...and finally the keys released. I swear...and likely unrelated, I replaced the cap/resistor...something in the junction box....and it cleaned it up. Here we are now....and it's been doing it again for a year or so.....press keys....starts to buzz...mech starts...and finally they release....can be 10 seconds or so....Guess it would help if I lifted the dome...and found out where the buzzing is. Probably where my fault is. I don't play it much...so have not got back into it. Hopefully someone here with much more experience than me....can help us both out.
Good luck.
-richmyers
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I have an Americana i'm working on. if you make a selection the buttons latch but then a substantial long delay before they release and the magazine starts rotating. Wondering what is causing this? Leaking cap, cube relay? I'm not a wurlitzer guy so looking for help.
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