Assembling the Gripper mechanic

After painting the Gripper parts the mechanics was assembled.

It took me four hours to get the Gripper in place and working!

New red paint 

Painting parts with a new spary can paint system, mixed result.

All the green parts was painted with 2K spray paint.

The paint was a pita to use and I'm not to happy about the result right now.

The paint had very low viscosity and on the smaller parts there is drips everywhere.

This paint system is compleatly new to me and I should have stayed with the system I know from past.

But I cant complain on the result on the large plastic covers.
Perfect gloss and no drips at all :-)

Carrige rebuild

The Carrige is mounted and slides on the Selector mech (Pinbank).

I dont have a clear picure of how the Carrige itself works with the Selector but it will definitely need to be cleaned.

Carrige with the Carrier plate

Dirt in all connectors

Finished and ready for installation

Mounting the Magazine & fixing the Scanning mechanism

The magazine and the "bearing" in place

The guide unit with the rocker arms and springs mounted on the magazine.
(The rocker arms prevents the records to fall out under the magazine rotation)

Just a little cleaning was needed to the Scanning mechanism.

I also measured the coil and switch, everything was great.

Before cleaning & painting......

 .......and after

Magazine motor & Gripper motor

Magazine motor before cleaning and checking

This motor have been refurbished, the grease was soft and the cable is in good shape also. Just added new grease and brushed the outside.

Gripper motor was compleatly stuck and my heat gun was needed once again to thaw the grease in the gearbox.

 I had to open the motor and cut away the hard grease with a knife.

Inside near the brushes the cables insulation was falling apart so a new cable is a must here!

Except for the dirt and bad leaders the gripper motor looked ok inside.

New fresh grease was also added

Turntable motor refurbished

Just a cleaning and painting was needed.

Brass bearings seems to be ok, no radial play was seen.

Record Magazine almost finished

Masked before a new glossy black paint is added

 New paint and refurbished numbering, the nebering is a little worn and not perfect but for now I let it be as it is.

What is left to be fixed on the magazine is a broken tab on one of the 30 "rocker arms".

I will try to glue it with epoxi, it might work with a little luck .

This is how my quick fix looks like!

Gripper mechanics

Gripper was a bit tricky to disassembel, the heatgun was needed as the grease was hard like glue.

Cleaned and ready for painting