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Why are you rewiring? Is it an SL 1200MK2? If so, have you thought about buying a new original tone arm bearings and all? The new tone arm from Technics comes with the tone arm wires already installed and brand new original Technics tonearms can be had for around 60-70 bucks. Between, tone...

It really doesn't matter. It's not about you. These threads will be read by people doing Google searches for the resolution of problems they may be having with their TTs. Maybe the fellow doing the search doesn't have loads of other tables, doesn't want to spend hundreds of dollars to fix the...

Conceivably, when confronted with costs upwards of $300 (parts and labor) to get a TT to turn at the correct speed, an owner might elect to purchase an alternative TT that is known to run consistently at the correct speed for less than $300.

LOL, you do understand that it is bantering. I'm sure you have more serious issues in your life.

I believe that it is a very useless additional failure point, even with changers, much less with non changing TTs.

Fixed it for you.

If you are going to go Technics, try to find one of the single screw with mounting sled Technics head shells. They are my favorites and are the easiest to align.

How do you test the speed?

You are joking, right?

When I see something like this I like to post this link showing another 40+ year old turntable in operation and under test, so no BS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtO4YurFgqU

He would be wrapping it to the chassis ground, not a good idea.

There are no transport screws according to the manual I have, and, the manual has no adjustment for the springs.

1. You should de-ox those pots and the other two gross speed control pots. 2. You can burn the insulation off the end of the tonearm wire with a lighter. 3. Since it is at a point where it won't cause binding, I would get a piece of wire (just small gauge not necessarily tiny tonearm wire size)...

Rega runs fast, what to do? Buy a Technics SL 1200 MK2.

Actually, I think I prefer (marginally) the M97xE to the M95ED with the OEM styli. Don't know about how they sound with third party styli. This may be heresy but I usually compare my M97xE with my V15 type IV with the OEM N45 HE stylus. Of course it doesn't compare favorably to my V15 with the...

With the brush down you should track at 1.75 Grams, with it up at 1.5 grams.

Admittedly, the plastic Technics can go for very little. I saw an SL 2000 go for 15 bucks just a few days ago. Metal Technics (1300-1800s) even non-working without covers rarely go for less $100.

If it is floating at an indicated 2 grams, it isn't at 2 grams. You need to balance the tonearm so that it is floating by turning the counterweight inwards or outwards. Then, without moving the counterweight, turn the indicator ring to 0. Then set the counterweight (turning in concert with...

John, Should be 52mm. Actually, it should be measured from the head shell washer to the stylus needle. The cartridge could be mounted anywhere along the headshell.

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I always take "score" stories with a grain of salt. In fact, I always wonder what the point is of advertising the fact that a widow sold a mint Transcriptors for $50 from her husband's estate.

Packing the platter with plastique is a blast I hear.

You probably have a bad cable or RCA plug. It could be an open somewhere between the head shell socket in the tone arm to the cable pcb, but it is less likely. I would open up the TT and check continuity between the pcb where the tonearm wires and the cable ends are soldered to, and the RCA...

jsisk is absolutely right. For the o-ring (which is less elastic) to work it has to be too tight on the motor shaft which damages the shaft/motor.

It's not "so bad", but a metal tonearm and metal motor mounted to a metal plinth is better mechanically and sonically in my opinion. Technics went to plastic to compete on price. Those aluminum plinth castings for the 1200 thru 1800 series were probably the highest cost single component of...