Restored Seeburg V200 Jukebox

[rickr]

I purchased an original Seeburg V200 on ebay in January of this year. I restored it as a Winter project and finished it in April. I can only find a couple of the "in progress" pixs right now, however when I find them I will post those also.

Will also do a video at some point and post a link to You-Tube

Enjoy!

 

[rickr]

Teardown

As I said, only can find a couple. It was gutted and rebuilt. Only way to do it on one this old. Only way to get rid of the smoke smell too! YUK!

 

[rickr]

another

torn down for cleaning, refinishing,chrome replating, and de-smoke!

 

[rickr]

finished amp and selection receiver

Harold, of Always Jukin' magazine rebuilds my vintage car radios and juke amps. He does a very good job, and I know he can be trusted.
The rest of the work I do myself.

 

[selectomatic]

De-Smoking and De-Gunking is disgusting, but it sure makes a

Looking forward to more before, during, and after pix!

-kevin

 

[rickr]

hooked up and installed...

These both mount to the rear door of the juke. A chain limits how far the door can be let down, but the chain has not been put back in place in this pixs.

 

[rickr]

finished juke

looking good, like a Seeburg should!

 

[rickr]

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front shot

I guess I should explain that the title strips are mounted in a large rotating drum. There are 5 catagories of selections to choose from, like Folk/Western, Classics,ect, however I have mostly R&B and Mowtown records so the catagories are not in any order for my use. However, we just push one of the 5 pusbuttons to advance the drum to the next group of R&B selections. Then you simply key in the selection number by using the green keys, to hear your selelctions.

 

[rickr]

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Selectomatic! How fab! <:

 

[58limited]

That is absolutely awesome!! I have always wanted one of these. There is one in a burger joint in College Station - it needs restoration and was purchased strictly as a "crusty" display item, sad.

 

[rickr]

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Seeburg mono Redhead cartridge. I love the font on the silver label... SO 50's!

SEEBURG HI FI MAGNETIC

By Pickering of course...

The original cartrige had been replaced with a WACCO junker, I bought this used original Redhead for $181.00 They are not cheap

 

[rickr]

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Another

 

[jasonl]

Gasp! Gasp! Gasp! ok

Breathe in.... breathe out...

I'm ok now. Yes, I'm ok.

Looking at the controls, I'm seeing a bass and treble and "Record compensation". From what I can barely see, it's a noise limiter and a compression circuit (auto volume). Hmm... Interesting feature for a machine that old.

BTW, that's one beautiful machine.

Video???

 

[rickr]

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Holding my finger over the flash on the camera. The flash just kills the colours in the grill.

These came with three colours in the light defuser. Like red, yellow/orange?? Anyway the defuser was faded and stained brown. (think of their lungs) I could have bought a reproduction from Victory Glass for about $50.00, or I could make my own<: Of course mine would be nicer... <:

I used a clear piece of plexiglass and gel colour from work. (our company makes theatrical supplies) I gathered up the scraps of gel colour that I thought would look the best, then cut them in equal sizes and attached to the plexiglass. Done deal. <: But the pixs still don't do it justice....

 

[rickr]

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another

 

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side shot

 

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other side

 

[rickr]

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Playing a 45 rpm record on the "SWAN" label. (not R&B music)

 

[selectomatic]

These machines always look best without much external light.

I usually turn off most of the room lights, turn off the camera's flash, put the camera on a tripod, and use the self-timer.

They really were designed to create their own atmosphere. I think they succeed.

BTW: I have a few machines which had plain, cool-white tubes illuminating the grilles. The light was too bright, and too harsh. Theatrical Lighting Gel to the rescue!!

Your machine looks great. With a freshly-rebuilt amp and an original cartridge, I'm betting it sounds great too.

-kevin

 

[rickr]

Couple of my homies.... <:

These two are a trip! The smaller one's dad is a friend of mine, and both of these teens live in my hood. At any rate, they show up here at least a couple times a weekend and want to hang out, go get pizza, or ice cream with me. We go swimming at my sisters pool on Sunday too.

These guys love the antiques I have and are thrilled to be able to play with them. They run the train sets, play the jukes, or call their friends with the old dial phones in the house.

The first time Rock and Budder played the juke, the record came out, the tone arm sat down on edge of the record and Budder said, "look, it's reading it!!" I just fell out!! Had to get the camera out for the "Kodak Moment" <:

 

[rickr]

Thanks Kevin! It does sound great. I have a dimmer on the rec room lights and usually have it dimmed. I wanted to try to get the details in the pixs, one of the reasons I left many of the pixs too big. Better to see that way. <:

 

[58limited]

Again, that is fabulous! Its great that you involve the teens in your hobby - they have so many negative influences today and this will show them that there are a lot of good hobbies they can try instead of just hangin' out and getting into trouble.

 

[nasadowsk]

That's got the 2nd version selection reciever without the 2D21 tubes in it, right?

 

[selectomatic]

It looks like a TSR-3

With the Stepper 2050 missing. Of course, that's not needed until RickR gets Wall-O-Matics to go with it. I hope that's on the shopping list.

-kevin

 

[jasonl]

And not to mention all that great music that they get to listen to on that juke. Nothing like the Motown sound.

 

[drmitch]

Rick, as usual, your attention to detail is amazing. Beautiful Seeburg!

 

[gansky1]

OMG, Rick! It's absolutely stunning!!

Video! Video!

 

[swestoyz]

Wow Rick, that thing is over the top! Too cool - love the way it says Seeburg on the Select-o-Matic mechanism.

Ben

 

[rickr]

Thanks everyone! Glad you enjoyed the pixs of the Seeburg! Will try to find the "work in progress" pixs, and will make a video at some point this summer. <:

 

[goatfarmer]

Another fantastic job, Rick! Thanks for sharing!

kennyGF