I hear you loud and clear--I'm just saying that this is a weird electronic   
   phenomena... I've been playing song after song now (30-40) and even put the   
   circuit breaker back into action. I cleaned and lubed it in the garage (it was   
   dropped off from a    
   church cleanup effort). I had to jump the breaker the day I got it. It would   
   blow the mechanical fuse every 7 songs or so. I decided to move it into the   
   house as a nice discussion piece. I almost died getting it to my lower level   
   by myself. Seems that    
   the shake up must have kicked the carbon dust in the motor around and I   
   couldn't get it to load 2 records without blowing the fuse. Now it was a big   
   heavy embarrassing boat anchor just taking up space. But from reading this   
   thread I was motivated to put    
   my own supply onto the motor to see the amps. The needle completely pegged   
   (only goes up to 3 and 20 volts output). The motor would spin and forced to   
   stop when the record sat down. I reversed the polarity and put the record   
   back--again the motor was    
   forced to stop with my current still on it.  I noticed that in the process of   
   back-and-forth, back-and-forth the amps started reducing. Back-and-forth,   
   back-and-forth it eventually showed under 1 and near 2 when the motor was   
   forced to stop. At that    
   point I put everything back and right now I'm blowing the ceiling off the   
   house. Really.   
      
   Can you tell me, if I remove the motor to clean it, does the motor slide out   
   of the gear box? Or will I have to remove that and open it up too?  Thanks for   
   all your help here.  Also, this is in really nice shape. It came with an extra   
   of every module,    
   extra speakers, and two ice cream containers full of extra records--all in   
   really nice condition. Can you guess at what this might all be worth?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)