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First Juke - CD-100 converted to SKJuke
Meph:
A while back I picked up a partially stripped Rowe Cd-100 machine so I decided rather than building from scratch, I would convert it to an SKjukebox machine. I originally though I could cram a 32-40" LCD in there and make some badass juke but once I actually got around to measuring it, the glass portion has some rough proportions and the most I was going to be able to fit would be a 24-26" without the light shroud. Then I began thinking that I wanted to go with a touchscreen so off I went to nab one off ebay. My first one didn't power up but after a swap I did get a working one that I really like. I installed E-Touch 7.02 Demo and absolutely loved it. Unfortunately after more thinking (I need to stop doing that) I really didn't want to ignore the great keypad controls built into the Rowe Juke so I ended up with a 22" Acer LCD and SKjukebox like originally planned. I guess the touchscreen will go in a custom build juke 2.0. Enough jabbering, on to the pics.
This is the machine as it arrived at my house. Notice the dent on the top right speaker grill.
The button panel is missing a button but the guy I bought it from is going to pull a panel from another machine for me.
Meph:
So the gutting begins. Everything came out of the juke except for the lighting wiring and the speakers. I tried a lot of different speaker configurations but ultimately ended up just adding some resistors to the stock speakers and buying a 200w 2 channel amp. It sounds better than I could have imagined.
The right side of the top speaker grill was dented pretty bad. It looked like someone tried to put their fist through it. The guy I bought it from is also taking a good grill off a bad machine for me but I didn't feel like waiting so I decided to try hammering it out. The grills on the CD-100a also have this white speckled paint on them which may have looked good once but on a 20+ year old machine it just looked like crap. A couple cans of black spraypaint and im much happier with the outcome.
Meph:
My state of the art workstation....lol I dont know why I insisted on doing the computer part of this in my filthy garage.
All the original lighting works and today I added the LCD.
The lights for the spinning CDs aren't working. Im not sure if im going to replace them or not. Im considering removing the spinning CD and adding a backlit marquee/graphic instead. I need to add a bezel to the monitor. I gave my Ipac2 to a friend for his juke so my new one wont be here until tomorrow. Then I can get the button panel working. Im very happy with the progress and glad I chose to NOT use the toughscreen in this cabinet.
BobA:
Nice work :applaud: :applaud: Those spinning CDs look great on a juke. Hope you take a look to see if you can get them working. Much more attractive than a backlit marquee IMO.
Nephasth:
--- Quote from: Meph on April 28, 2011, 09:56:32 pm ---Im very happy with the progress and glad I chose to NOT use the toughscreen in this cabinet.
--- End quote ---
Love it! Can't wait to see this one done.
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