Sir ALLAN . . . . .

First off, before anyone gets off on you . . . . for your all caps usage . . . . typing format . . . . and chastises you for "SHOUTING" or "FLAMING", let them know that there ARE certain people that initially had their first military typing " learning experience " on a old model 15 of
the Teletype Corp or der inveterate Kleinschmidtttttttttttttt Models TT-4 or TT-76's.

On those units , there were NO " #%$!!!ing " lower case letters . . . . . only CAPS and then, having bare minimal punctuation coverage.

Therefore, with time, you develop on up to your flaming 100 wpm speed.

Now . . . .. you got answers? . . . . I've got questions.

Most informative initially, was your :

THIS MACHINE PLAYS CONTINUOUSLY; PLAYS A DIFFERENT SELECTION EACH TIME

With an option of up to 24 selections, have you checked to see, and I certainly believe, that it is just cycling over JUST all of your previous songs that you had " PUNCHED IN " to play.

Therefore ALL of the units records are not being played in a continous giant repeating cycle, just repeating THOSE specific "preselected" ones..

Now, I don't know just how much you know about "Fertilizer" jukes, and possibly your BEING familiar only with the audio amp, phono cartridge and the units sound aspects.

Heres a quick cumulative rundown from the time right until the nickel ( 5-10-25 cent piece) hits the slot . . . . 'cause youse . . . . " got to get something that's really hot."

Initially the coin chute dumps into the coin selector mechanism where it precisely evaluates coins for their weight, thickness, magnetic susceptibility and a final overall diameter check, to then channel into one of 3 final thin chutes to roll down to, and finally brush across one of three leaf switches to do a solenoid activation of a latching relay.

(See the two "Fertilizer" photos below of the round "Sawtooth" discs, specific to that design of latching relay.)

That type of relay is functioning as the mechanical "credit memory" for the coins that were inserted. A nickel ratchets the relay one step, a dime, twice, and a solid quahtah ratchets it 5 steps.
As record selections are punched off, the relay backsteps sawteeth until all of that previous changes "credit" is used up.

When you press a specific record play button, its switching voltage is being routed to that records specific coil on a selector assembly where it "pulls a pin" on that selector assembly cluster.

That, or any " pulled pin ", then starts up the machine mechanics on a roll to seek out and find and play that selected record.

Over in the selector mechanism portion, it is intelligently doing a fixed sequence search to find that " pulled pin", there is also like mechanics linked to the tray selector for moving up and down between the records stored in their stacked trays.

When the pulled pin is found the mechanism stops its search and then starts a play cycle where that properly selected record starts a swing over in its platter to accept the rising turntable and then play the record. At the end of the record, the lead out groove of the record is then triggering the systems EOR switch and the system turntable drops down and lowers that record into its storage area tray and swings both back to the storage area.

There is also the moving of that records selector "pin" to its disengaged / dormant position and the whole mechanism stops . . . OR . . . it goes on its search, to find any other pulled pins, to stop and play those records.

So o o o o o when all of your play credit is used up and all of the selections have been played and their respective selector pins moved to their off positions, the playing should stop.

Suuuuuure seems like you should now be plugging in the machine and letting it play each selection and logging them in and "speed" playing them by lifting the tone arm up and over to the lead out groove OR by using the systems reject button.

See how many record selections are ACTUALLY being involved and then physically examine the selector unit.

( NO, its NOT that large vertical selection "thermometer" at the rear of the unit).

That unit is showing how many times a selection /favorite has been played.

You will recognize the selector unit by its huge number of coils . . . . one for each record position.Then use a bright light to find the involved pins "in-out" positions / conditions.

On a " Seeburger ", of which I am 1000% more familiar with, you can merely use your fingers to mechanically reposition pins to either their Activated (pulled) /or / Deactivated positions.

Once you get all of the "Fertilizer's" " pins " to their deactivated positions, with no playing then, you play yourself one song and investigate
why and if the pin is not deactivated at the end of that song.

Thassssit . . . .

Awaiting your feedback . . . . . .

"Fertilizer" electro/mechanics photos :

73's de Edd

If having dogs has taught me anything, it's to eat my cookies VERY-VERY
quietly.