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    Customer Service-- "Hall of Fame"

    In the Northeast Ohio area Heinen's grocery store seems to be the absolute best as far as service and variety...the only thing is almost everything they carry is a name brand and they don't offer many store-brand lower priced options. In Texas HEB grocery (H.E. Butt Grocery Co.) seems to be...
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    Customer Service-- "Hall of Shame"

    Credit unions are member-owned non-profit institutions that usually offer very good service and much better terms on loans and credit cards than banks. Have a credit card through a credit union and not once has the interest rate gone up, unlike bank cards!
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    Off topic. I just bought the last great American made luxury land yacht

    That's a great car you got there! I just finished another 800 mile round trip in my 1978 Grand Marquis with 400 CID engine and over 262,000 miles...still drives great. I replaced a lot of accessory components on mine just due to wear such as carburetor, fuel pump, alternator etc. but the...
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    HeyUp! Impact Wrench

    I have two impact wrenches (large and small) but it's been a while since I used them...they really came in handy for removing the steering gearbox to frame bolts on a Dodge van. To use the large ones you ideally need one of the really big compressors but you can use them with a medium-size...
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    Streaming Radio

    I have put my favorite streaming radio stations on our Links page...You can listen to almost all streams using the Linux operating system and the Mplayer program with no Windows-related problems. There also is a Realplayer for linux. http://www.retroaudiolab.com/links.htm
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    Council Bluffs Drive-In?

    Texas has a good number of Drive-in theatres still operating. In our area a brand new state of the art drive-in was built 2 yrs. ago and business is so good they're adding a 3rd screen. The drive-in is open year round though in Dec. through February or so it can get kind of cold...
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    My Next Great Adventure

    We have driven from West Texas to Indiana and West Texas to Ohio and back, about 1000-1200 miles each way....am not sure where you are coming from but we needed about 6-8 total days of driving and about $1500-2000 to do these trips, including lodging, food, gas and entertainment. Personally I...
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    In search of the perfect old phono/radio

    Personally I use grease very sparingly if at all...Zoom Spout oil seems to be the best lubricant for jukeboxes and turntables I have found. There is not much torque available in these mechanisms and gummy/hardened grease will cause them to jam. Any tube type equipment will need capacitors and...
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    1940's Frigidaire Stove plus piano!

    Thanks for the information! Yes, it is incredibly heavy, thank goodness for the Tommy Lift on the truck. It is in the barn at home now...there is an enclosed room in the barn which was used kind of as a kitchen so I may try to put it in there. There is 220 volt service out there so I will...
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    Bathroom Question

    Urinals can be outfitted with manual twist-type flush valves for lower water pressure areas. This is how they were when I was in school.
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    1940's Frigidaire Stove plus piano!

    Closeup of range.
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    1940's Frigidaire Stove plus piano!

    Here is a late 40's or early 50's Frigidaire I got at the thrift store for $30.00. Also there was an old piano that they let us have for free. This is our shop truck which has probably hauled more than 20 tons of organs, pianos, jukeboxes, refrigerators, etc.
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    Who knows early refrigerators?

    If you have estate sales or auctions in your area these are good to check for old refrigerators...sometimes they are still in use in the garage. Your best luck is in the older parts of town rather than modern housing developments though. I was lucky enough to find a late 1940's or early 50's GE...
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    TV scores from the other day

    That Zenith looks like the tube type model but down in the bottom corner you can see text: "Solid State". This is probably the horizontal solid state chassis as opposed to the later 70's vertical chassis. The tube model of this style used 4 tubes: horiz. output, vert. output, damper, and horiz...
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    TV scores from the other day

    Is that Quasar a solid state or tube type? I have a similar set with the works in a drawer that is mostly solid state but still uses about 4 tubes.
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    40's or 50's Crosley TV/Phono: what have I done

    On a TV/Radio this old almost all of the capacitors are likely to be bad...caps can often look good but still be shorted. Also, these devices rarely have any fuse protection built in. We don't even plug in something of this age until all capacitors are replaced. Even if it were to test out OK...
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    The Queen Mother of Jukeboxes

    Also here is a good website from a former Seeburg engineer which has good information on troubleshooting the Tormat memory problems (such as "scans but does not select") and also Seeburg pictures and a factory tour: http://home.pacbell.net/fmillera/ http://home.pacbell.net/fmillera/
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    The Queen Mother of Jukeboxes

    If the buttons don't latch down it is likely a credit system issue...have not worked on this particular model but it sounds like there was a switch wired in parallel with the coin switches to give free credits (simulating the action of a coin). Sounds like the mechanism in the credit unit may be...
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    The Queen Mother of Jukeboxes

    The memory systems on many jukeboxes through the mid-late 70's (Rowe, Wurlitzer, Rockola) were completely electro-mechanical...a solenoid on a rotating device would rotate around to push out a memory pin for the desired record, which was then canceled when the record played. Seeburgs from the...
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    The car eating trash truck!

    A good school bus website is www.schoolbuscentral.com They even have pictures of some of my buses on it. http://www.schoolbuscentral.com
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