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Guys,
This is advice needed for a non-B&O repair, but still worthwhile.
I am replacing the rubber seal for the dome on my Seeburg jukebox and would appreciate some guidance.
The current seal has turned to black “cement” and will be difficult to remove after 65 years. I am thinking using a Dremel tool to grind the rock hard residue off. I believe that is safer than a small chisel as with one slight miss-step, I could break the glass dome.
The seal is on aluminum if that makes a difference.
What do you guys think? And thank you.
Jeff
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I would try with acetone, soak, scrape backward with a chisel or hobby knife, when nearly off, use abrasive 3M pads maroon or brown and acetone for the last
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Lee:Could you not use some rubber renew? I.e. Wintergreen oil. Break fluid is supposed to work wonders on old rubber too. Lee
Thank you Soren, Lee, and Peter.... good advice all.
In the end it snowed last night and with three birds in the house strong solvents are a VERY bad idea, which left doing the work with a -1 degree temperature in the garage.... I didn't fancy that.
So I took the dome off and scrapped like mad in the kitchen. The old rubber was hard as a rock and brittle so to came off in chunks. Took some time, but got it all removed. Then went to work on the residue with a flathead screwdriver and that was successful.
The metal strip had bluing on it so I didn't want to damage the surface, took extra time and care, but worth it.
The new rubber is absolutely beautiful (if you can picture that) with a texture clearly from the early fifties, as opposed to foam weather stripping, which I "could" have used, but would not have been correct. THIS is correct.
Also replaced the record cushions (front and rear) and now the record drop in place with a thud rather than a bang. I liked that part a lot.
With a 65 year old jukebox it is never a straight line so the new record cushions had the 45's sitting a tad too high and the mechanism in motion just barely nicked the records. That would be VERY bad. A bit more pressing down on the strips with a screwdriver solved that problem.
Last but not least, as to install the rear cushion strip the back doors had to be removed and for a small eternity I couldn't get the lower panel back in place. This was frustrating beyond imagination. Simply could not get the latch to catch and FINALLY noticed the main cable from the mechanism HAD to go in a trough cut in the board. Once I "figured" that out, the back panel went right in place.
Success!
Thank you guys for your help.