Bits and Pieces
It’s been a fruitful couple of days finding Seeburg treasure. A fellow who used to be an operator living close by in Oregon listed some more Seeburg parts he found in the basement. The first time around I got a bunch of black and gray boxes from him. This time I got three SHP3 amplifiers and a DCC4. I’m always pleased to get these as I rebuild the amplifiers and control centers to sell. Both models are the last of their series made by Seeburg and will fit any of the 70’s or microlog jukes. I asked if he had anything else. “Yes, got a few things in the basement”, he replied. Down we went and I got a pleasant shock. He has perhaps a dozen cocktails, video games in a sit-down format, stacked floor to ceiling. Original Nintendo Pop Eye and Donkey Kong cocktails!!!! Very rare. Many other rare cocktails and a goodly assortment of rare collectible arcade games. He has a Battle Zone, one of the first 3 D games made. I used to pour quarters in that machine. He has many pinball machines including a couple of rarities like 4 Million BC German version no less, a Ground Shaker, and one of my faves a Strikes and Spares. I refurbished a Strikes and Spares pinball one time while living in Garland Texas back in the early garage days. My room mate and I had a large living room so I would put all the finished games in there. We had so much fun playing the Strikes and Spares that I put off selling it for a long time. It and Black Knight I would buy for my living room in a heartbeat.
The guy also had a title strip lid for the STD series I was pleased as punch to get. It will go on the STD4 currently being renovated and will save me time and money as the metal on the old lid needed to be rechromed. He also had the selector button/horn panel assembly for a STD2 or 3. Unsure which it was but definitely glad to get it to have some spare treble horns in stock. I was down to a couple of ugly ones. You know, the ones you use if you must. First thing I did when I got home was to try the titlestrip lid in the STD4. Naturally it didn’t fit. The rollers missed the tracks. I’ve ran into this before. I got the Dremel tool out and used a metal cutting bit and elongated the holes on both the lid tracks. This allowed them to move outwards perhaps 1/4 inch in all and was enough to then meet the tracks and slide in place. I’ll check it better later and make sure I have a tight fitting lid.
And of course, treasure is where you find it including ebay. I came upon an auction for a remote selector with cable for the Seeburg HSC series consoles with perhaps 40 feet of cable. A rare find. Also two, yes two titlestrip books for the HSC’s. Very hard to find. This was an auction and I bid here and there to keep up with it and waited until the final day. It ended late. This is the only reason I can guess that this lot didn’t go for way more than it did. These pieces will end up being sold to someone who needs them. My last HSC was in the late 90’s at the shop I had in Seagoville. I enjoyed it greatly.
My Seeburg Life 