Building your own jukebox casing

[RobCloke]

Hi There first post from a newbie,so I might have missed posts from the archives although I have searched.......

I have a Rowe ami R84 hideaway, which with grateful thanks to Alan Hood ,I have managed to get fully working, its such a great mechanism its a shame to leave it hidden,I have seen the Ami Continental build,and have the plans for it plus also the bubble top, but was there any others which people have made with the mechanism on show, if so what have other members constructed and what was the final achieved result?

Any ideas/help/advice

Rob

[ami-man]

Hello Rob,

Welcome to the forum and thank you for the mention, it is appreciated.

I have heard of a number of cabinets that people have put their mechanisms into.

There is the ones put into Coke machines, petrol pumps, ornate glass fronted cabinets and of course the back end of Mini's, I have done work on a couple of these, one done on a "busmans holiday" in Devon, in the village we were staying in I left the family on the beach and walked up the hill to look at this jukebox, it was not a very good conversion so I had to make good a lot of the wiring before I could start on the repair.

Please let us know what you intend to do with regards to a cabinet and if you could post a few pictures to show how you are getting on.

Regards
Alan

Alan Hood
ami-man
UK
alan-hood@datex.co.uk

[jennifer]

     Jennifer would be of the opinion to leave well enough alone.... If it works why butcher it into the rear clip of a car or something? rarely do those ever turn out like you would think and when its done its kind of a mophadite situation. However, a non working juke (the real deal) can usually be picked up pretty cheap and it a good platform for a new project. And Welcome to the BYOAC!!!

[RobCloke]

Thanks Alan, much appreciated ideas, as said your input last week was instrumental in getting this R84 working.................

[RobCloke]

     Jennifer would be of the opinion to leave well enough alone.... If it works why butcher it into the rear clip of a car or something? rarely do those ever turn out like you would think and when its done its kind of a mophadite situation. However, a non working juke (the real deal) can usually be picked up pretty cheap and it a good platform for a new project. And Welcome to the BYOAC!!!

Thanks Jennifer all taken on board, this one is a hideaway,and its cruel to keep the mech boxed up for no one see, it was cheap when purchased,and as said with Alans help its back to life, but deserves to be put into perhaps my ideal casing of a glass fronted orginal looking machine from the 60's era..
The wallbox is not the prettiest thing either, its large,dark wood ugly kitchen cupboard thing....

[jennifer]

     Im aware of what it is (in fact I have one)... The whole point is you can run wallboxes from it, and hide the ugly thing in the basement or something. If you want a beauty queen to show off, Id keep your eye open, they pop up fairly regular, and those too are usually pretty cheap.