! WARNING WARNING!

Record Needles

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Don't allow the lid to SLAM shut against the player case.

This is what causes the needles to break!

The tone arm with needle smacks the record and breaks and gouges the record.

Beware! The multilated mummy doesn't like to be bumped during play! 

He will let you know by sounding out,  "eerrrch" and scratch your record. 

After play and storage, use a small piece of bubble wrap or something equivalent in the player case so the tone arm can't slip back and forth during handling! Or use my black foam arrow shaped tone arm stop for storage or shipping.

The next slide are two handmade diamond tipped needles in white.  The white needles also work on the Milton Bradley Seance Board Game.

Need a new needle? Send that broken needle to me.  I'll send you a replacement.

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Mummy Speed Controllers

View the slideshow. Manually control also --->

Here is the stock motor speed controller. It rotates and looks fine from the top and bottom but inside the pot where the copper swipe touches the carbon film is usually corroded and fails to give the linear resistance needed to control speed.

The symptoms are dead or hot spots -ie the voice is too slow and then if you slightly rotate the knob CW then it plays too fast or  just nothing at all.  It just needs to be replaced.  Units that claim to have original parts will not work consistently and will require constant turning or tweaking of the knob to play at the correct speed.  The stats are only one that I've seen has ever operated correctly.

The slideshow shows what the inside of the stock speed controller looks like. The carbon resistive material is corroded and the copper wipe connected to the shaft is turning green.  This was an attempt for a game company to create a cheap part and it #1 on the failure list.

The speed controllers are replaced with better than factory results.  For the repair, the old part is replaced and the tan shaft is cut off to reattach to the new speed controller shaft.  This looks factory original and controls speed very precisely.  The control of the turntable motor speed works as it should! As the battery becomes depleted you make a small adjustment to keep the voice as the correct pitch!  The unit looks factory original when completed.

Need a new speed controller? 

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Battery Corrosion

Believe it or not this battery mess can be cleaned up! 

Replace the battery terminals and then back in the game!  Don't throw these away.  Send it to me!  All this corrosion is from the old leaky "D" batteries of the 70's.  The leaking corrosion of potassium hydroxide, would oooze out of the player case, disolve and creap up the copper metal, stain the foam staircase and often times leak so much that it started to dissolve the paper box. 

That's were those nasty brown stains came from!

Lid Close and

End Message Switches

LCEM (El Sem) Switches. These 2 small switches need to be properly bent and completely clean for the unit to operate correctly.  I clean and add a protective coating to keep the metal preserved and running strong!

 Record Discs Repairs

These little records are tough!

I have seen several that have severe scratches play just fine. 

If you do have a record that constantly skips on certain tracks,

I can repair these deep gouges. 

Send it to me and I'll repair it and send it back quickly.

Turntable Motors

Here is a crusty stock motor with the plastic terminals that have popped out and the foam has dissolved along with a second generation standard toy motor.  These can spin just fine but internally had dirty and worn parts or be completely froze from severe battery corrosion.  The motor just needs to be replaced.

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Turntable Motors for

Made in USA Players

Currently motors for the Seance player or the new style Mummy Record Player are unavailable.  The players have Made in the USA on the back. 

*** Made in USA or Made in Germany. Click here to see pics *** 

 These players use a custom shaped and custom internally wound motor.  I can clean them thoroughly with great results.   Send me the unit and I can get the motor spinning again!

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Turntable Belts

Here is a turntable belt that was attached for years to the motor pulley.  The bump is visible on the right.  This bump will make the messages sound noticibly "warbled" as the bump spins around the motor pulley. This problem is attributed to the belt drying out from age.  It may also have visible cracks near the bump also to identifiy that it is dry and no longer suptle. The belt will no longer grip the motor brass pully and turntable consistently.

Don't oil the belts, they will slip on the pulley and turntable.  When the lid is closed and the needle touches the record. It may either not play or you can't control the speed correctly.  The voice message will start out low and slow then speed up through the message.  Clean and dry the belt, motor pully and turntable belt slot.

I strongly recommend that if you put the game away for a while to pop off the belt from the motor.  It will keep it's shape and not develop that pulley "bump". This will ensure you smooth message playback in the future.

Need a new belt? Both Record players use the same belt. 

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Total Unit Overhauls

These two unit repairs are good

examples of what can be done to save a unit.

Click here to see a unit that arrived and needed some serious work from severe battery corrosion.  All done, and it looks brand new!

Click here to see another unit that arrived and had an extreme repair made to compensate for a bad motor.  All done, and it looks brand new! 

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Other Repairs

Paint Touchup:

There are many other repairs that I can perform as well.  Some players have had paint damage from battery corrosion.  I can touchup the paint or remove and repaint using the factory technique. 

Wobbly Turntable or Record Scrapes When it Turns:

Some units have had the brown turntable shaft support break underneath.  It shows a hairline visible crack. That can be repaired.  The symptoms are that the turntable scrapes and you can see it wobble when played. You can see this by pressing down on the lid switch lightly and watching the turntable rotate.  The message playback varies in pitch or sounds warbly or warblish as it plays and also the turntable with shaft pops out easily.  I have also replaced the turntable shaft cap, if yours is missing.

Unit does not play next message:

Another problem I have seen are the reset message lever fails to start a new message.    The symtoms are that the unit will play the first message when you close the lid but when you press the next message lever, it fails to play the next message.  So then the user always has to open the lid and let the needle fall back in place then close the lid, to play the next message.  This is caused by a message reset lever cam that has become unglued/lost and needs to be replaced.  I recreate these by hand and retest thoroughly!

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