Recent content by steerpike2

I'm not suggesting a fault with the encoding. I mean that your particular disc has either degraded with age, or there was a manufacturing flaw that has led it to be stamped imperfectly. Just as an LP record can become physically damaged only in certain parts so can a compact disc. If the disc...

It could be a disc that has a lot of errors and what you are hearing is the error concealment system working very heavily, and not quite coping.

Marantz was bought by superscope in 1964.

Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer 'neat' and 'kine'.

Says who?

Mineral turpentine works perfectly for removing the sticky plasticizer film .

Tetsh-nix hasn't been suggested yet .

Long ago and components have changed since then, a friend's girlfriend:" Oh my god, if you locked me in this room for a year I still wouldn't have time to press every button"

Magic! Thank you. I have tubing, so can now cut to exact length.

Hi all, In another post I mentioned I bought a GA-212 with a broken and poorly repaired arm. I need to replace the arm tube, but since mine has been cut and joined, it may be shorter than original. Please can an owner tell me the exact length of the exposed aluminium tube, from black ball entry...

Great find! Now you have a very fine record player!

From your video recording, I get the impression something is binding or jamming. Normal Adjustment of the dash-pot won't fix that. It may be as simple as dirt in the piston/cylinder. Or it may be the cylinder is mounted skew due to something being bent. When the solenoid is energized, the...

Is the solenoid energized when the machine is supposed to start playing?

Underneath that bracket, where the wires enter the lamp, that's where the retaining clip is. Can you push the long rectangular bar down ,or it stuck?

The cup must turn , that is the adjustment - it has a tiny air hole in the bottom that is opened or closed by rotation of the cup. Maybe it is just stuck due to age. It is held in by a spring clip on a stud that protrudes through the mounting plate. If you slide that clip off ,you should be able...