{"id":650,"date":"2011-09-04T09:51:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T15:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/invertedsky.net\/?p=650"},"modified":"2019-11-23T07:47:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T13:47:10","slug":"seeburg-jukebox-restoration-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/?p=650","title":{"rendered":"Seeburg Jukebox Restoration, Part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like very little forward progress is being made on the jukebox restoration project, despite the time I&#8217;m putting into it.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of things are fighting me.\u00a0 Interestingly, it&#8217;s not the old stuff that fighting me, but the new stuff.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been really disappointed in the quality of reproduction parts from <a href=\"http:\/\/victoryglass.com\/\">Victory Glass<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The side plastics are not cut the same way as the originals, which will cause me to move the side chrome pieces up a little.<\/li>\n<li>The speaker grill cloth is not like the original which causes it to show the imperfections in the metal behind it because it&#8217;s highly reflective.<\/li>\n<li>The blue mirrors have a crinkled reflective background rather than a smooth reflective background.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A &#8220;reproduction part&#8221; should be a faithful reproduction of the original, not something that only vaguely resembles the original.\u00a0 Unfortunately, Victory Glass is the only game in town (the world).\u00a0 And I imagine the demand for reproduction jukebox parts is falling as most of the old jukeboxes have already been found and restored.\u00a0 When I was restoring my Wurlitzer, I don&#8217;t recall these issues.<\/p>\n<p>Another thing that has been fighting me, are the stains, paints and finishes.\u00a0 The overall quality has really gone down since the last time I restored a jukebox.\u00a0 A lot of this has to due with environmental regulations that limit the evaporative solvents used in a product.\u00a0 Nothing is very durable.\u00a0 Also, I suspect that a lot of it due to the corporate mentality of using cheaper chemicals.\u00a0 I had to redo a portion of the wooden cabinet twice now.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve redone parts of the metal selector panel nearly 10 times or more; I&#8217;ve lost count.<\/p>\n<p>Slowly things are starting to move towards going back together.\u00a0 I&#8217;m glad I took a lot of photos before I took things apart so I can go back and\u00a0 look at how things go back together.\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t expecting the cabinet to be apart this long.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_651\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/invertedsky.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/jb-5953.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-651\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-651\" title=\"jb-5953\" src=\"http:\/\/invertedsky.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/jb-5953-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/jb-5953-640x426.jpg 640w, https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/jb-5953-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/jb-5953.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A damaged piece of molding that had to be rebuilt.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/invertedsky.net\/?tag=seeburg-146\">See all posts<\/a> related to this jukebox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like very little forward progress is being made on the jukebox restoration project, despite the time I&#8217;m putting into it. 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