Completed Seeburg Model 146
One final restoration note: I replaced the heavy crystal cartridge in the tone arm with a lighter weight dynamic one to reduce the record wear. It’s the only thing that deviates from the original design. To think that records used to be played with what is essentially a nail.
From left to right: Tone arm, new dynamic cartridge, old crystal cartridge.
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Jason
January 28, 2012 at 10:37 pm
wow!!!! Amazing work!
randyg
January 29, 2012 at 9:50 am
I’m real happy with how well it’s working and how nice it looks. It was a labor of love.
Liz
January 30, 2012 at 6:35 pm
What a great job you did! It looks amazing.:)
randyg
February 3, 2012 at 9:52 am
Thanks! 🙂
Marco Jonker
February 5, 2016 at 10:33 am
Hi,
How much weight do you put on the needle with the new cartridge?
Doesn’t the amplifier has to change also for the new needle?
Thanks, Marco
Randy G
February 15, 2016 at 11:41 am
The amplifier doesn’t have to change.
http://needles4jukeboxes.com/Seeburg-Cartridges.htm
Charles
March 22, 2019 at 2:43 pm
Hi –
I’m restoring the exact same jukebox, and I was very impressed with your work. I hope mine turns out to be half this good. Like yours, mine is still an unmodified one that plays 78s.
Thanks!
Charles