Two Lyric Fs ready for restoration.
I’ve been buying in a few machines for restoration and seem to have a glut of Lyrics recently. I have three Lyric Fs to do and one Lyric E. I tried doing two in tandem as you can see from the photo but I ran out of room.
I came across a Rock-Ola 451 in very bad condition as a part-ex on one of my other machines. At first I was just going to break it down and keep the good parts but then I thought it’d be interesting to strip it down to its nuts and bolts and see if I could build it back up again, customising the colour scheme as I went. It will need new ‘glasses’ for the door and a lot of other attention but it should turn out quite nice. I haven’t got the photos sorted just yet but when I do I’ll post them.
If it was a ‘classic’ then I’d obviously restore it as near to original as possible but with a machine like this the value of the jukebox doesn’t warrant that sort of expense. So I am mainly doing this one out of interest, just to see what I can make of it. The new colour scheme is a pearl effect purple/lilac and metallic blue. Not boring anyway.
If you are interested in my jukeboxes go to www.jukebox-repairs.co.uk
I have now finished the Wurlitzer Carillon and it is available for sale £1250 on my website at www.jukebox-repairs.co.uk/forsale.htm
It’s a really tidy looking jukebox and has a very gutsy stereo sound loud enough to rock anyone’s party.
The jukebox I am working on just now is a Wurlitzer Carillon from 1972. It plays 50 singles, which is 100 selections. The mechanism was in a bit of a bad state so I stripped off everything right down to the base plate and gave it an aluminium finish.
I then had the interesting task of putting the gearbox and gripper assembly back on, which took a bit of head scratching to get everything lined up correctly, but the end result was worth it.
