Nice jukes, everybody.
I have one. I'm not really a 'juke' person - hence why I only have one - but I have/had to have one with my games. I usually always have it playing some records as I'm working or playing my games. I'm a Rowe/AMI guy myself; I can take apart a 1100 Mech with my eyes closed, and on watching one operate, i can tell you what it's not doing right.
This came from having an MM-6 in my basement when I was a kid, when my dad had two of them, and game me one to take apart. That specific one is long gone, but I picked up another one a couple years ago. While the 50's and 60's machines and art-deco are fantastic, to me they're far too pretty and expensive to make it worth it to me. (I want the music, don't need the fancy-looking high-end restored game-room vibe.) Since buying this one, I've picked up three more 1100-based mech jukes - and across the 4 of them, spent only $450, total. (I parted the others out, saved what I knew I would need, sold or recycled the other parts, and burnt the cabinets.)
I'm also into the various options that Rowe AMI had - I have two wallboxes that will be connected up to my juke (as soon as I get stepper working), as well as a money meter and a dollar bill validator from the late '60s. I do NOT have the aforementioned PhonoVue - would be interested in seeing how it works, but it's too large for me to have one.
On mine, I also got rid of the florescent bulbs - as they do horrible work to plastics. So the only thing that's ''upgraded'' is the lighting with LEDs. I like how it came out, and in the door have manually color changeable strip to light up the titlestrips.
(And yes, I know I'm missing some strips..)
