Good Wurlitzer-like Jukebox for Conversion?

[Mameham]

 Anyone have hands on experience with this jukebox -

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3265304972

 I've seen them around on the web, but not close enough to touch...

 I'd love to rip out the CD player and put DOSCAB and/or VM Jukebox in there... it's got a lot of nice hackable buttons on the front too!

 But does it _look_ good... or is it cheesy plastic?

 And do I care?

 $400 isn't sooo bad.

[Chris]

Here's a better pic of the model with the "jukebox" (which is actually an AM/FM radio with 3 CD changer).  It looks smaller than a full-size jukebox.  I'm willing to bet all those "buttons" on the front are dummy buttons just like the ones on the real Wurlitzer CD jukeboxes.

[Chris]

This "Jukebox" Cd-player's dimensions: 44" x 16.5" x 27". Weight: 48 lbs.

Real Wurlitzer 1015's dimensions: 60" x 32" x 25". Weight: 355 lbs.

Still, it's pretty... probably mostly empty space, so you'd probably want to build a small cabinet and use this as an outer facade.   Also, I believe it only has 10 watt speakers, so you may want to upgrade those as well, though.

--Chris

[Mameham]

 Yeah, probably fake buttons... but good holes...

 And no I'm not talking about the woman...

 Only 16" deep? Or is it the 27" that's deep? I gotta see one of these up close. 16" wouldn't be so bad, cause 32" is a lot...

 New speakers definately...

 - Eric

[Chris]

I took the dimensions off a sales page for the box, but I suspect that it's 27" wide to the Wurlitzer's 32" wide.

And yes, they are nice holes if they are actually in holes, but they're likely to just be molded protrusions that you'd have to cut off and make into holes.

Still a promising facade, but I'm not sure it's worth $400 just to use as a facade.  Now if you could find one of these where the CD player was dead and you could get it cheap....

I can't find the actual manufacturer, but almost all of the ones I found on the web traced back to egadgets.com.  If you could find the manufacturer, you could try to see if you can purchase a refurbished, dead or empty unit cheap... (Tell 'em you're using it for a prop in a play ("The Rocky Horror Show" (Columbia's jukebox) if they ask).)

[Mameham]

Yeah, $400 is a bit high for a facade, but odds are no matter how cool it looks the wife won't let me put it in the living room anyway...

So until the basement gets waterproofed a lot of projects are going to have to wait.

Which means I'll have more time to find the MFGR... where-ever the hell they might be... ( I couldn't find em either... )

[Chris]

Yeah, $400 is a bit high for a facade, but odds are no matter how cool it looks the wife won't let me put it in the living room anyway...

You might be suprised.  My wife was dead-set against having our MAME cabinet in the house until I wrote DOSCab... once she saw the jukebox, she invited it in.  Now whenever we have people over the first thing she does is fire up the cab and put it into jukebox mode...

What you need to find is a small LCD screen that will fit between the buttons, where the "Jukebox" logo and mini-LCD display are now.  I'm going to really pour some work into DOSCab, and hopefully will soon have a version that is skinnable so you could have a skin that will let you display just the labels so you don't have a "jukebox within a jukebox" effect... If the 27" width is correct; that middle area looks to be about 7-1/2" x 5"...

--Chris

[NiN^_^NiN]

Wish i could get that juke box

what i think would be cool is having a 5" LCD connected to the pc and put where it says juke box its the perfect size and where that small LCD is you could put a new LCD which displays the song playing

altho i dont know of anything that displays on a LCD and monitor besides winamp but im sure im wrong

leave everything there (unhook the CD but leave the lights on)

i think it would be great wish we had that down here for $400 id buy it

also i love doscab and i did worry about using it cause of the jukebox in jukebox effect but i like the way it is

plus u can run it on a 486 dx4 100 it doesnt skip but its a bit slow on the gui side but its all good  

[Mameham]

 But what we really have to do is find the manufacturer... so that we can get them cheap and broken...

- Eric

[Generic Eric]

I have seen those at Foley's.
Foley's is a department store, kinda like sears (but without bob vila & not as many tools.)  The first place I saw a Foley's was in Texas.

...So if you have a Foley's in your area, you might check there.

[Generic Eric]

Well, you found the pic from somewhere...
I found it on ebay for $369 (buy it now)

It is listed as a "Wurlitzer 1015 Replica Jukebox," so that may help in an online search for a cheaper deal.  Oops...thats already in this thread

[Mameham]

 Yeah, he's the guy I found it with first...