How do you take out the motor for the gripper bow/record selector on a 1967 Rockola Concerto model 434 Jukebox. Looking down onto the motor with the plastic trim removed. There is one large screw bolt and just below it there are two screws. If I undo these will it just lift/slide out or are there other screws. Do I have to remove other parts to remove it. I always find it is best to ask first in case there are hidden complications, you learn the hard way sometimes! The wiring to the motor has come away I want to somehow screw it/solder it back to it's rightful place. What drew my attention to the wire was when a record was about to reject there was a nasty buzzing sound. This used to come and go only when a record was playing. anyway as the record was coming to an end there was a thumping noise coming from the power supply and also smoke coming from that motor. Not much as I think I might have caught it in time before any real damage occured. I removed the fuses and was able to work the motor manually to select a record and it did and even played. I managed to wind it back to it's homing point and the carousel wheel spun to it's homing point. The record played without any buzzing. Other than that the old Jukebox plays great! Incidently, just behind the pick up arm there are three horizontal contacts, one of which will cancel a record if the coil on the write out carriage jams (which it has often) this happened prior to this new fault. But, the switch never worked that time. I thought the motor had jammed, so I checked the wiring which was hot and fell into my hand. I then wound the motor from beneath it to learn that it will operate the motor maually.

Ian, October 2009