asemisldkfj
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So my Dual 1228 has a bunch of very confusing symptoms that I don't care to explain (this is not the simplest turntable ever and I slightly regret buying it for this reason). But on the bright side, I've narrowed things down to a particular area.
The segment, the piece with the green arrow pointing to it in this picture, seems to be bent a little bit, so the pawl (red arrow) isn't engaged correctly by the pin (right next to the green arrow, protruding from the side you can't see) on the segment.
This problem makes itself obvious in this picture, where the segment bumps into the shut-off slide and the tonearm doesn't want to move the last couple of millimeters into the tonearm rest.
If I push up gently on that part of the segment everything works fine: the motor engages and disengages when I move the tonearm, and the tonearm moves into its rest with no resistance (picture--sorry for the progressively more blurry photos). It also seems to work if I loosen the two hex nuts that hold the segment to the tonearm (you can see one of these nuts in the first picture, bottom left just above the spring).
Any ideas? I'm afraid something is bent beyond repair, but it would be real nice to get this working. Thanks in advance.
(Attached pictures are in the same order as above.)
The segment, the piece with the green arrow pointing to it in this picture, seems to be bent a little bit, so the pawl (red arrow) isn't engaged correctly by the pin (right next to the green arrow, protruding from the side you can't see) on the segment.
This problem makes itself obvious in this picture, where the segment bumps into the shut-off slide and the tonearm doesn't want to move the last couple of millimeters into the tonearm rest.
If I push up gently on that part of the segment everything works fine: the motor engages and disengages when I move the tonearm, and the tonearm moves into its rest with no resistance (picture--sorry for the progressively more blurry photos). It also seems to work if I loosen the two hex nuts that hold the segment to the tonearm (you can see one of these nuts in the first picture, bottom left just above the spring).
Any ideas? I'm afraid something is bent beyond repair, but it would be real nice to get this working. Thanks in advance.
(Attached pictures are in the same order as above.)