Rock-ola 490 mechanism problem

Sumonewholuvzu <[email protected]> Sun, 29 Nov 2020 01:09:41 GMT
Newsgroups alt.collecting.juke-boxes
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello all, been reading posts for a while now and cant seem to find any that are similar to my issue.  I have 
a Rockola 490 that I purchased from a couple in not working condition.  They said it just quit working one 
day.  When I got it home it would light up and keyboard works, goes into normal operation on cpu, things seem 
to work normally.  Flip lever into operate mode and the big relay on the front of power supply starts to buzz.  
Disconnecting motor to gripper stops relay from buzzing.  Replaced gripper motor and the relay does not buzz 
anymore.  With the lever in operate mode the carousel just spins forever, never finding home.  If I push and 
hold the lever in scan mode, the carousel will spin around and stop at home.  If I push and hold the lever in 
scan mode, make a selection at the keyboard, carousel spins to selected record, gripper grabs record and 
places it onto the platter, needle comes over to play record but immediately starts the reverse process, puts 
the record away and carousel goes to home and stops.  Now if I push and hold the lever in scan mode, make the 
selection at the keyboard and let the gripper grab the record, I can flip the switch to operate mode and it 
will place the record on the platter and play the entire song, do the reverse process, put away record and the 
carousel will spin forever.  Any ideas on that one??  Thank you.


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