1952 Seeburg Jukebox M100C Ground Up Restoration!  

1952 Seeburg M100C jukebox
"Happy Days" Jukebox

This is it! This fully-restored Seeburg M100C has been fully restored to the best of my ability and ready for another life time of use. I have done several of these units to date and know my around this particular model well. I have done everything that needs to be done to make it a reliable working jukebox for years to come. Nothing to do but load up your records and decide whether or not to charge or do free play. Listed below are some of the major points of restoration I have done on this particular Seeburg. Many other points of restoration are apparent in the photos. Please ask me questions.

SHIPPING: I can deliver to your door cheaper and safer than shipping it through UPS or anyone!!! I am located in the Boston MA area and can deliver in the surrounding states with my enclosed trailer specifically designed to transport a jukebox upright. Please contact me for a quote on delievery! You won't be disappointed!

• Fresh restoration completed as of Oct 2011. Complete strip down and rebuild of unit to avoid any major future issues with performance.
• Mechanism has brand new motor capacitor, rubber motor mounts and bushings, and fresh cleaning and oil. See last picture listed to see motor and new parts installed. Mechanism has no issues and tight. 
• Fresh blue paint and  red white and blue cover label on mech cover. Fresh coat of yellow paint on record tray. All done great and shiny. Inside gold foil and mirror panels all are new and looking great. All aluminum has been polished to a shine.
• New pilaster lights, front music panel light, and new matching ballast.
• Amplifier board and selection board have been recapped and have strong tubes. NEW OUTPUT TRANSFORMER installed on amplifier board. 
• All contacts cleaned. I personally disassembled the pin bank and hand polished all silver contacts. Put together with no issue, works every time.
• Casing veneer was done by me personally with thick real wood veneer. White Birch and Oak two tone. All done to the best of my ability and has three coats of mirror finish poly.
• New Grille plastic safe tubes and grille cloth.
• Fresh replatted Chrome on coin return, coin plunger, and featered below coin plate. See pics below.
• Fresh speaker coil rebuild to assure best sound quality.
• NOS quality checked "Red Head" Hi Fi Cartridge with brand new needles with desired 90 degree stance.
• New style Free Play adaptor.You can just flip internal switch for free play or work off of fully functional coin mechanism. This adaptor also has a built in safety circuit that does not allow the selection relay to stay ingaged for to long if only one button is pushed. Great safety feature!
• All needed keys for unit included and jukebox is completely lockable.

The best restoration possible performed by me, Third Bay Radios.

Some background info on this Model. This model Jukebox, the 100C, was the aniversary model for Seeburg. They wanted to really make it stand out more because of this. There are very simular models to this jukebox but this is the only model with the color wheel pillars that rotate slowly. Yes, it was featured in the credits of the show Happy Days and it is sometimes referred to the Happy Days jukebox even though I think Mel's dinner actually had a different model in the actual show. It has been along time since I have seen an episode. I have been told that the only more popular mode jukebox would be the Wurlitzer with the round top and bubble sides but that is always up for debate, they all were nice.

It stores 50 records. It only plays 45s which are the small records with the large holes.

IT WILL NOT PLAY FULL LENGTH ALBUMS WHICH ARE COMMONLY 33-1/2s.

It does play both the A and B sides of each 45 record allowing you have a total of 100 selections. There are many on-line record sites that sell 45s. They reprint (or brand new) many of these 45s with 'Hits' on both sides. You can still find many original press 45s online also but will cost alittle more. Most 45s go for 5 to 10 bucks a record.

This jukebox was designed for mono playback and with this "Red Head" Hi-Fi cartridge it sounds incredible. It was not designed for stereo records and stereo records will not play in stereo on this jukebox but will still sound good. This Jukebox has the original "Red Head" Hi Fi mono playing needle cartridge that came with the 100C originally.

PLEASE NOTE: I personally compared this included Hi Fi cartridge with the acclaimed Pickering 345-03D cartridge and heard no real difference in clarity or sound. Both sounded great on the same song and had plenty of range. The included "Red Head" cartridge has fresh new needles. These new needles are the new style with 90 degree angles to help in playback.

The record mechanism is from WW II  and are designed to play records for 24/7. They do not like to be turned off for long periods of time. I am sorry I will not ship great distances but I can hand deliever in NY, MA, and Cape Cod for a small gas fee. I have more before and after pictures posted on www.thirdbayradios.com. Contact me if serious. Thank you!