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Audio Discussion => List your system => Topic started by: Doghouse Riley on November 14, 2017, 05:14:40 AM

Title: Boys Toys
Post by: Doghouse Riley on November 14, 2017, 05:14:40 AM
My collection, such that it is, all working  perfectly.

Apart from the jukeboxes and wall boxes I've had all this stuff from new. Except for the Leak 2000, which I bought cheaply on eBay about ten years ago (when they were unfashionable) to replace a 1972 Philips 709 tuner/amp that died.


2015 : Panasonic Viera TV TV is with memory stick with 3000 plus mp3s on it.
2015 : Panasonic SU-HT B18 Soundbar.
2015 : Humax HDR 2000T 2010 : Panasonic S75 DVD/CD player
2004 : Sony SLV-SE740 VHS recorder/player
1980 : Leak 2000 tuner/amp
1972 : Philips 308 turntable
1972 : Sharp RT442H cassette player
1972 : Goodmans Havant speakers
2010 : Yamaha YTS 62 tenor saxophone
2000 : Yamaha PSR 1000 electric piano. This is now so old, it records to floppy discs! It was my fifth electric piano
2010 : Datasync adapter for jukebox wall boxes

1969 : Rock-Ola 443

(https://preview.ibb.co/hLtoaw/P1030334.jpg) (https://ibb.co/m4ei8G)

1976 : Rock-Ola 468

(https://image.ibb.co/fz8DAw/New_Graphic.jpg)

1968 Rock-Ola Phonette Wall Box

(https://image.ibb.co/fotkOG/P1040486.jpg)

1976 : Rock-Ola 507 Wall Boxes

(https://preview.ibb.co/buEisb/P1000866.jpg) (https://ibb.co/mBWk5w)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=g4XFWqgV8XI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=g4XFWqgV8XI)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EFV25tY0fc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EFV25tY0fc)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4XFWqgV8X (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4XFWqgV8X)
Title: Re: Boys Toys
Post by: Doghouse Riley on November 14, 2017, 05:20:15 AM
Sorry!
Last video wouldn't load.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISeRK8vCa1M (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISeRK8vCa1M)
Title: Re: Boys Toys
Post by: scorpio333 on November 14, 2017, 09:32:18 AM
Love the jukeboxes, especially the wallboxes! Do you maintain or work on them yourself? I've got a '71 Wurlitzer Zodiac that I brought back from the dead and a '63 Wurlitzer 2700 that needs restored. The 2700 has to go, just don't have the time to work on it.
Title: Re: Boys Toys
Post by: Sir Thrift-a-Lot on November 14, 2017, 10:34:07 AM
I love the '69!
Title: Re: Boys Toys
Post by: Doghouse Riley on November 14, 2017, 11:56:40 AM
Thanks for the kind words.
Both boxes I bought on eBay several years ago.
Both were in reasonable working order and had been in separate  private hands for over 20 years, just needed a good clean and a lube job. I replaced all the fluorescents and obtained a "new old stock" graphic for the 468 and a "new old stock" record card insert for the 443. "Because everything goes blue after a time."
I remade the graphic for the 443 out of overlaid coloured and opaque A4 acetate.
Title: Re: Boys Toys
Post by: Sir Thrift-a-Lot on November 14, 2017, 12:55:00 PM

I remade the graphic for the 443 out of overlaid coloured and opaque A4 acetate.[/color]

Super job!  I never would have picked up on that if you hadn't pointed it out.
Title: Re: Boys Toys
Post by: Doghouse Riley on November 14, 2017, 01:45:10 PM
Thanks again.

This was the original eBay photo

 (https://image.ibb.co/gp0u0w/Rock_Ola_443.jpg)

The graphic was in a sorry state and I had to repair a crack in the grill.

(https://image.ibb.co/bDJE0w/P1020602.jpg)

(https://image.ibb.co/geuttG/P1020646.jpg)

Fortunately, there was a retaining strip top and bottom  which holds all the separate pieces of acetate firmly.

The record card insert came from "Victory Glass" At first they said they hadn't any, but I found the part number in the service manual, so they came back to me and  then said they'd found seven.
I bought two as they had a minimum charge and put they other on e-Bay, it was bought by an enthusiast in Malta. Victoria glass I doubt will have any left now as they bought all the original spares when Rock-Ola folded.

My camera doesn't pick up the purple very well it looks too white.


Title: Re: Boys Toys
Post by: narfen on December 12, 2017, 01:54:58 AM
Nice, I like the Rock-Ola 443