Zenith Turntable is up and going

[Larry N]

Decided to work on the worse one first, the Zenith only had the radio working. Took off the turn table and gave it a thourgh cleaning underneath, everything seemed to be all dried out. I used Q-tips with a little bit of PB Blaster on it to go all over anything that slides or moves up and down. I then clened off the blaster and then took vasiline and used where needed for smooth operation of the parts. Turned the whole works by hand for three or four minutes and could feel everything getting looser as I went.
Put in back in the player and powered up and away it went with a squeak here and there. Threw a record on and zooooom it went clear across the record in a second, forgot to the needle. Put the tone arm up and it looked as if it had weld slag on it, couldn't even see the needle. Took the needle out and checked it closer, needle was there but was buried under this crud. Took some head cleaner and soaked the needle in it and you could see that crud melt away. Put needle back in, fired her up and out came the music. Had to do a few arm adjustments to get it too drop at right place and return when over. Next weekend the 8 track TAPE player, that is what the site is about, right. Any whooooo thanks for listening.

Larry N.

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Once you get to that 8-track a few ears around here will certainly perk up,,nice job on the Turntable

[retrokeeper]

Yep...that 8-track will need a new belt,for sure.Clean out the deck,i.e. remove all the dust bunnies and pieces of tape that broke off from previous cartridges,spray some Deoxit where needed,clean the head and sensor post,and cycle thru the track changes and see if the head responds well,and hear what happens!! You'll need some tapes if you don't already have some...but wait...don't play those tapes in that newly refurb'd deck until you do the "thing" to the tapes,PM me for the proper procedures to make the tapes sound as good as the deck should. Rob

[Larry N]

Nothing left of the belt other than black sticky mess, gonna take a lot of Q-tips and alcohol to clean this one. Capstan does turn with my test cart in it, its just a empty cart, thats a plus. Will do as you say retrokeeper, thourgh cleaning of the head, capstan reconditioning and evict the dust bunnies of years past. I have close to a thousand tapes, so that shouldn't be an issue. Going to stop at the thousand mark. *liar* I would appreciate any tips you can give me, fresh new ideas are always good. One thing I have found with the players I have is, lack of TLC is usually what made them stop working and they are fairly simple to get going again. Every once in a while I have to pull out the soldering gun to renew a connection or change a simple part. I got a 8 year old Pioneer Turntable on Free Cycle that did,nt work tore it down and all it needed was a new belt and needle. Finding a new home for the ones you save is a big problem, because most everyone whats newer things. The older analog stuff they don't care for.

Larry N

[stuwee]

We have faith in ya Larry! You'll get 'em going, the all-in-one's are heavy to ship however, I always tell folks and, you'll see if you don't already know, the speakers are the weakest link in the chain. I've heard so amazing tunes come from them with nice speaker's, even decent ones from newer stack rigs from Wallyworld units kicked to the curb. Do you live in a college town? The kids are crazy for retro stuff, and dude, the Superscope with the pink dial is sweeet! Hell, I want it*Hi5**devil*

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Once you get to that 8-track a few ears around here will certainly perk up,,nice job on the TurntableSee I told ya