Thursday, January 17, 2019

Tonearm Mounting


At this point I was growing a little impatient, so I threw-in the tonearm mount so I could power everything up and see what the results would be.

However, once I installed this nasty looking thing I couldn't bear looking at it very long:



I mean everything, even the tonearm wiring, had a uniform coating of oil and dirt on it!




So I took it out, took quite a few pictures, and took it apart:




Pieces destined for paint were prepped and painted:




And to paraphrase an old saying, Assembly was simply the reverse of Disassembly, resulting in this:





I have to admit that I powered-up the unit at this point and tried to at least get the Magazine Motor  to spin. 

But it didn't turn, or at least it didn't do so properly, so I will cover the reasons why (misadjusted switches) and how to set them up properly in a further Post, along with video links showing the procedures I used. 






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