this is the inner workings of a bag of
laughs no electronics and this was the
battery and a motor and a little tiny
record this was made by Marx toys in the
United States
I bought this back in the late 60s and
they made this they didn't expect
anybody to take it apart to work on it
they had glued all these edges together
so I cut it apart
the only control on this is the push
button when you push the button you rock
the record
this is the mechanism that's attached to
the speaker this works like the old
Victrola listen there's a little tiny
needle this arm is spring-loaded
as this follows the grooves and the
records this arm comes up and will push
on this wire this is your switch you
push this button down that releases the
needle from the record so that would be
in this position
and that will swing back and allow this
to make contact again I mean you let go
of the button the needle will engage the
record the spring in here makes this arm
go up there's a drum on the back of the
record the old drug belt set in one
position so long that it stretched and
got distorted so I've taken a rubber
band and I put it around there
and then the belt just runs against this
motor shaft and this motor shaft on this
unit has been knurled so it has a little
bit of grip I was a little bit surprised
to see that they hadn't put these metal
rivets on top of these two wires to hold
them in position at some point in time
and this plastic insulation gives away
that could cause a shark there but again
this was not intended to be a long-lived
toy these battery terminals had like a
white oxide on them they would not make
electrical contact with the battery so I
had to clean those up and the ends of
these wires were just riveted underneath
these metal plates so that's not a real
good electrical connection but the
biggest problem I had was with the
spring switch that wires just stuck
under that plate and I had quite a bit
of trouble of getting that to make a
good electrical contact again put the
rubber band around the drum put the
spring inside the button
gently push this dance and engages
the battery in there to make sure that
it's working and then this you just put
it down on top of there I'm just going
to use a couple of pieces of tape to
hold this together well I know that
rubber bands not going to last very long
and the way they had made this his piece
of plastic was a separate molding and
they hinged it with a rivet here and the
snap together and they went ahead and
they glued all that together again I'm
not sure why I put very fine
drop of oil on this end and on the other
end of the motor shaft we put the
battery in soon as an iron comes down
hips left wire that stops the unit
