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Old January 19th 12, 09:38 PM posted to alt.collecting.juke-boxes
robert
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Default Rockola 440 Gripper and Magazine Motor Blowing Fuses

Hi Tony,

I ran the machine for a couple of minutes with both motors
disconnected and it did not blow a fuse.

I connected the gripper motor that I had cleaned out previously and
ran the machine, only to blow the fuse within a few seconds. I
couldn't connect the carousel motor, because the brushes broke apart
during disassembly

The cam switches are aligned and from what I noticed, only one motor
runs at a time.



Robert


On Jan 19, 8:21*am, Tony Miklos wrote:
On 1/18/2012 4:58 PM, robert wrote:



Thanks for the advice Rob.


I called one of the ads in the classified section of Always Jukin', my
wife's boss gave me a copy. *(Thanks again, that was a great idea)
Ironically, the the guy I called about purchasing two motors,
suggested that I try a few things before spending the money for the
motors.


1. *Running the motors while disconnected from each of their
respective gear mechanisms to see what would happen without a load.


* * * I tried it and it still blew the fuse.


2. *Clean the motor out:


* * * So far I took the Gripper motor apart and it was filthy inside.
I cleaned it out but need to do the same with the carousel motor.
Once I do that I'll try it again and see what happens.


I certainly appreciate your advice. *But I would like to see if there
is any way that I may be able to fix this first before having to
purchase another set of motors. *On one hand this is frustrating, but
on the other, I am learning A LOT about the way these things work and
it's really quite interesting


Did you unplug both motors and see if the fuse blows without them? *Did
you try plugging in one motor at a time to see which one is blowing the
fuse? *It's possible but highly doubtful that both motors are bad...
unless it was used as a parts machine and the good motors taken out and
replaced with the bad ones. *Besides, the two motors _never_ run at the
same time so unless the cam switches are screwed up, only one motor is
blowing the fuse at any given time. *If both motors are trying to run at
the same time you have some other issues.


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