Proud owner of a 1962 Wurlitzer 2600

[Skeleton Man]

Got the service manual today    The schematics should definately help things. Just gotta wait for the tubes to arrive in the mail and I can get to work.

Chris

[Skeleton Man]

Got the new tubes and the right needle today and it worked for a few hours, then the sound just cut out and wouldn't come back. Preamp works because I can hook up the external amp jacks to my home theatre and it pumps out sound! Just no speaker output. It did this a couple of times before, but turning it off and back on always fixed it - no dice this time.

Got one other problem too: occassionaly the record fails to cancel - it will kill the sound but the turntable continues to spin. If I unplug the machine for about 20 minutes it
will finish the cancel cycle when I plug it back in.

Does this sound like bad capacitors or should I look elsewhere for the
problem ?

Last but not least, I have a record that's 45rpm on one side and 33rpm on the other - it has a small hole in the middle, not a big one like the rest of the 45s.  The 33 side plays fine, but the 45 side also spins at 33rpm and as such plays too slow!  Is there anything I can do about this ? I heard that small hole always means 33rpm - is this true ?  and why on earth would you have both sides at two different speeds ?

Chris

[davethebirdman]

Chris

Yu may have a 45 from the UK ... For some reason we have small holes on all our 7" records and have to dink them... I have some 7" that are 33RPM but they play at that speed on both sides... Never heard of one that plays different speeds on different sides...

Dave

[Kilroy]

I've never heard of a record with two different playing speeds on each side either, are you sure it isn't playing normally, but one of those weird  hippioe  acid induced songs that just sound lsow?
The amp cutting out could bea bad cpaacitor , or a bad tube, . I've got a friend I can bounce your issue of off, the fact you would power it off   to get it to play suggests once the cap colled down again  it could handle the load , but finally gave out.

[Skeleton Man]

Damn, when did U2 become hippie acid induced music ? 

Side A: With or Without You @ 45RPM
Side B: Luminous Times & Walk To The Water @ 33.3RPM

I'm guessing the machine sees the small hole as 33RPM and plays both at that speed.

Chris

[Kilroy]

That's exactly wahat's happening. interesting  marketing ploy though, and now I don't suggest dinking it 9 making the hole a 45 rpm size)

[Skeleton Man]

Yes it's definately different, I'm guessing the 33RPM B side is so they can fit the extra song ?

Chris

[BrianB]

That's wild! I'll have to remember that problem.

[Skeleton Man]

I must have something rather rare here, I just figured it was common place to find two sides at different speeds.

[collecture]

I must have something rather rare here, I just figured it was common place to find two sides at different speeds.

You might...I never seen a record with different rpm's!

But why do they have the 2-song side at 33rpm?...45 rpm is faster!

I have an old Coca Cola Tony Bennett 45rpm with 3 songs on each side called an 'Extended Play'