The weatherstripping arrived from good old Amazon and I installed it on the upper and front inner trim rail pieces. The doors shut against these. I noticed a “bumping” when lowering the lid and slowly traced it to the right horn speaker hitting the gas spring.Further investigation revealed that the mounting for the horn was bent, canting the horn toward the gas spring and hitting it. I took it all apart and straightened the mounting tabs. Seeburg (or Stern) used a different horn speaker in this model neccessitating a different mounting. These speakers look for all the world like they came out of an automobile. They sound good though.

Problems are rearing their ugly heads on the SMC2 with the computers. A big part of troubleshooting is to get a repeatable problem that can then be traced. And that is the problem. One day they work great, the next they don’t.In the middle of testing the mech suddenly started tripping as soon as it picked up a record. I sit with schematic and meter and start tracing the trip circuit. Changing out one MCU with the other I discover that one of the plugs was not squarely seated. Replugging solved the trip problem. After of course changing out the PCC’s as well. So after almost two hours of this I had enough SMC2 for one day.

Evening work consists of recapping an HFMA2 amp and TSR6 receiver.

Cleaned the bass enclosure inside and out on the SMC2. Looks tons better. No rebate money found. The cashbox door has many holes in it where the operator used what looks like two different lock and lock bar set ups. This is when it’s nice to own a MIG welder and have years of experience welding up holes. There’s a little trick I learned and that is to back up holes with a copper plate from the inside. The weld will not stick to the copper, it helps dissipate heat, and keeps the weld flat on the bottom. It took longer to drag everything out and get set up for welding than it did to weld up the dozen holes. After welding them up I ground them down, sandblasted the door, glazed it and painted it with the same brown as the frame and coin cup. It looks good and no-one knows it had holes. I’m good with metal but very so-so when it comes to wood. I’ll fill the holes in the cabinet but I know I won’t be able to match them well enough to hide them. Sometimes doing the best ya can do is all ya can do.