Repairing the Mirrorball lights in a Rowe R93 Jukebox!

ladies and gentlemen this is Joe's classic video games back with another really cool arcade game video for you today this is a repair video very simple one but we figured we'd videotape it cuz it's kind of neat we've got this juke box here that we're working on which is an r93 I believe let me check it's a row let me make sure I've got this right I don't want to mislead you h i saw a label somewhere where did I I see that yes r93 okay this is a row r93 as you can see and it had this really neat um look to it now right now it doesn't really look all that neat looks kind of rough right so we're going through and we're getting all of its Cosmetics going again so we're getting all the light bulbs to work all that and one of the neatest things about this machine is right here in the middle midle we've removed it but it has this little mirror ball that turns and it has a bunch of little lights that shine on it and that has this neat effect that looks really cool this would have came out in probably 87 88 something like that maybe a little little later than that so here's the assembly that we removed we'll walk it over here and put it on the shelf on the table check this out so that goes up in there and when we got it and we tested it the miror ball actually turns but none of the little light bulbs were working and so you get stuff like that in a lot where little minor stuff like that they've really ignored you know so it is our goal to get that working at least somewhat like it did originally so you can see the way the mirror ball works is there's just a little motor on the end with a little plug and then there's this other plug that basically sends the uh voltage to the light bulbs and so the light bulbs as you can see are different colored bulbs All Around The Edge they're kind of faded and things like that but we're going to leave that and uh basically the way it works is the voltage comes in and then it's split up through these three different boards so on this side you've got a board with three bulbs on this this side you've got a board with three bulbs and on the top you've got a Bo a board with six bulbs and those represent the ones that you can see on the uh inside that's visible through the front and so basically they have these little uh connectors these little twist things and a bunch of them are missing they fell out or whatever over the years so if you remove one and they're kind of brittle because they're old it's just a little bulb with a little twist thing now if you're not if you haven't seen one of these all this is is the same thing that's on an instrument cluster in a lot of cars and when I say a lot of cars I mean like 80% of cars so the side the thing you need to get is the right bulb and the right holder because we've got some missing so basically uh the bulb on this is marked number 73 which is a dash indicator light on a car so it runs off of 12 volts just like a car battery puts out um etc etc and that's what they used on this machine now the little holders are the the same holders that hold the bulbs in on a car they might look a little different but they work the same basically you've got a hole you twist the little connector into it which makes those two metal prongs the two gold prongs there whenever you twist it it makes it where one's touching this side and one's touching that side which is how it Powers the bulb and the the size of this connector is T5 which is basically just the base of the bulb it's called a T5 so we got on good old eBay and we couldn't find parts for an r93 juke box but wouldn't you know it they have plenty of bulbs for the indicator light on your dash right and wouldn't you know it they have plenty of T5 bulb holders for the indicator lights on your dash the illumination lights and things so uh we were able to figure them out somebody must have heard about this video and they're calling to see uh What uh what the next video is but what we're going to do is first we're going to ignore the phone we're going to fix up all of those uh connectors and I'm going to clean these uh contacts to make sure that it makes good contact and then we're going to twist our new ones in and then I'm actually going to check the the continuity from this side to this side to make sure that I'm getting the same uh reading that the bulb does I've already checked these new bulbs and it's got 15 ohms resistance so if I if I checked between here and there with that holder in I should get 15 ohms of resistance letting me know it's making good contact and so once I get all three of these boards all rigged up with just the right stuff and just the right bulbs we're going to put it back in and see what happens so I will film that video be right back all right so we've mounted it back in there there's just three or four little bolts that hold it in I've got the lights off cuz we're going to turn it on and show you what it looks like in the dark so there it is installed let's see if our bulbs work check that out very cool I'm G fill this one full of disco music so there you go that's repairing the little light bulb sockets like I said simple little thing I mean it's not that big of a deal but this is the kind of stuff we run into on a lot of things um you have to improvise a little bit and you can't find the original parts you got to use something similar blah blah blah blah blah but there you are hope you enjoyed the video and uh whenever we get this juke box up and running completely which will be soon we'll update a we'll upload a video for that as well so we will see you on the next video