Seeburg 1962 Console Model LPC1
When this LPC1 came to us it was in really bad shape. It Obviously was a in a bar for many years and all its records were missing. Being in poor condition and cannibalized only made us want to get it working again ever more. Little did we know the amount of work that was ahead of us. Console Era jukeboxes are an insane amount of work. As soon as we started to dig into this unit we noticed a missing board in the credit mechanism. Being even more less optimistic we did some research and soon read up that these jukeboxes were geared to play two speeds of record, 45 and 33 and half. The 33 and half speed records were whole albums produced by Seeburg. If you wanted you could play the whole album at a greater price. The board missing allowed this to be done. With more research I read it never really worked right and the whole miniature album records were hard to come by so everyone just played 45s and bypassed the overly complicated credit unit. This was the reason the board was missing, it was bypassed. With this in mind we decided not to strive for complete functionality but just get her playing 45s again.
With two massive bags of capacitors as the recapping kits and a new soldering gun both the boards were completely recapped. There are an insane amount of capacitors in both boards. Many are not easy to get to. The pictures to the right show only one board. Once these were done we moved onto the mechanism. It was filthy and took a good amount of time to clean it out. While cleaning we discovered one of the starter cans for the florescent light was shoved down in the mechanism. Someone had once taken off the mechanism cover, placed the starter can on the horizontal cam, and put the cover back on. If played the can would have been eaten up and would have destroyed the mechanism. We also discovered that the retaining pin for the clutch assembly was out. How this happened who knows. I am thinking disgruntled servicemen. With a great deal of luck and many lights to see where it should go, we got it back in place without having to completely disassemble the mechanism.
Once finally all together with a great deal of new parts and many hours cleaning it the jukebox was tried. At first it did not want to play at 45 speed only 33. This was rectified with even more large capacitors and a great deal of machine oil. After this speed issue it had a new one. It would only pick up records in one direction. We played with it for hours until we went and did more research and discovered it was designed only to pick up records in one direction. It flips its needle to play B sides, which is neat to watch. With this all being said, minus a lot of our hair, and working, we quickly delivered it and thanked the new owner for the education on console era Seeburgs.
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