Hi, I know this is a long shot but my local dive has a broken juke box and I don’t think they’re going to fix it. Is there anyone that specializes in jukebox repair that would be willing to work something out so that the jukebox can be played again?
After 26 years of sitting in my dad's library without being played (the movers "broke it" when he moved into our house), we got this gem going again. Still need to replace the front fluorescent bulb, fix the tweeters, and get the A-side resetter to fire. But she's operational!
This Victor recording made in 1908 disc captures Muench’s clear, disciplined tone in Kreutzer’s “Hobellied,” a sentimental craftsman’s song celebrating honest labor and melody. The label design — featuring the His Master’s Voice trademark and gold‑on‑black typography — represents the grandeur of Victor’s pre‑WWI aesthetic.Digitized and presented by The Neven78 Radio Archive, preserving the artistry and sound of America’s immigrant‑era recordings.
My ‘78 (purchased used in 2017) is still going really strong but I think it needs a new coin input mechanism. We have to manually raise the lid to trigger credits and it would be way cooler to drop in quarters
Is this a doable DIY fix? Or does anyone know of a repair guy in SE Michigan?
I've got a 1975 Rock-Ola spinning 45s, and I wanted its sound in the rest of the house. I couldn't use a normal analog to digital dongle because of the whole home audio system im running, so i had to custom build it and it turned into something potentially much bigger.
1. It plays the jukebox's own speakers AND your whole house at once — in perfect sync. No other device does this, and this is really what started me down the road of a custom build. Every analog-to-Bluetooth gadget forces a choice: play locally OR stream away. Try both and wireless lag makes the streamed rooms echo against the jukebox. My devicehas a tunable digital delay that re-aligns the local speakers to the stream, so the whole house locks together.
2. It knows what record is playing. This second bit kinda came out of no where, but its cool. It fingerprints the audio locally — no cloud, no fees — and shows a live "now playing" card. Hit an unknown record? Name it once and it remembers forever, learning your whole collection as you play it. I'm also thinking about the ability to auto-build a Spotify playlist of everything spun.
3. The best part: it works on ANY jukebox — or any analog source. Nothing here is Rock-Ola specific. Old console stereo, reel-to-reel, tube receiver — anything with an analog out. A universal bridge that drags vintage gear into a modern, song-aware world.
Install is minimally invasive and fully reversible, and failsafe — When not used the Juke plays normal through its own speakers. It's configurable with a browser based UX app.
Two things I'd love input on:
Happy to go deep on any part of the build. Here's a screen cap of the app.
hello! i recently picked up a vintage cabinet/console system that wasn’t working. i know absolutely nothing about any of this, but im stubbornly independent and have managed to locate what record/phono system is in this.
with that being said, I have a PE Rex-A. i realized i needed new belts for the idler pulleys, managed to source, order, and re install them. one of my pulleys is moving upwards on the shaft after relubing, which is taking one of the belts with it. how can i get it to stop sliding up? logically i’d try a degreaser, but i think i need to take the player out of the cabinet- and it won’t budge.