Tracy came by this morning to pick up his new G. First we went at the R mechanism addressing the only complaint left about the record landing. I explained the reason the tonearm was landing in the record. The trip wire was pushing back against the reset plate as the tonearm moved toward the record. It should not be touching after trip reset. I bent the wire a bit with a pair of pliers. These get bent in such a manner that you wonder if you really bent it-that light of a touch needed. Usually when you do this then the bottom half of this little assembly, called the trip switch actuator, hits the trip wire too soon causing early record cut-off. It can be a real back and forth pain in the butt til a happy medium is reached. We got lucky. That little adjustment was all that was needed and it didn’t cause an early trip even on a “long” record. I showed him the rest of the trip circuitry and Pickup 1 the needle landing adjustment. We played the mechanism awhile then took it out and loaded it in his truck.

When I moved the New G into the house my buddy Jeff and I took it apart to be able to lift the cabinet over the door thresh hold. The jukebox won’t fit through the doorway except sideways and no way I was putting a dolly on the side of the box even with a blanket. We removed the lower backdoor as an assembly, the upper back door, mirrors, and the mechanism. This lightens the cabinet considerably and we were able to easily lift it over the threshhold. I’d rather do a lot of work and not risk those fairly fragile pilasters or scratch that beautiful veneer. Tracy and I got the New G out of the house the same way it came in. We then re-assembled it and did a “blanket wrap”. He put a heavy moving blanket over the juke and then wrapped it round and round with a three foot roll of heavy duty stretch wrap. After loading on the trailer we secured it with straps. I thanked him again and watched another beautiful jukebox drive away.

Final run-throughs on the New G. No hum. Problem fixed. Amp had an intermittant bad ground which is usually the case when dealing with the B+ or high voltage circuit. It is selecting and playing like a champ with excellent sound. I re-assembled the jukebox completely for pictures with the Old G. It had occurred to me I’d never have two restored G’s in the house again. Beautiful G’s.

Then I tore it back down and put the R mechanism back in. I want to go through any trip switch adjustments with Tracy watching. As a collector he has several jukeboxes and it wouldn’t hurt to start becoming somewhat familiar with them. I try to push people towards learning about their jukeboxes. This is one hobby where you almost have to get your hands dirty because service people are few and far between.