Service my Philips 212 Turntable - Part 1: the defects

RE: Service my Philips 212 Turntable - Part 1: the defects

jbjb — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 11:09:15 GMT

Hi Jan from John in Brisbane in Australia..i have 3 good 212 tt and a good 202..bit of a collector. Amazing how they have survived 50 years

RE: Service my Philips 212 Turntable - Part 1: the defects

stevesmythe — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 09:04:51 GMT

I still have the Linn Sondek LP12 that I bought in 1975 for £105 and it still works perfectly. I have changed the drive belt a couple of times but that is all I have had to do to it. It was a good purchase!

RE: Service my Philips 212 Turntable - Part 1: the defects

Jan Cumps — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 12:36:47 GMT

Some progress: Service my Philips 212 Turntable - Part 2: initial measurements

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RE: Service my Philips 212 Turntable - Part 1: the defects

DAB — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 19:17:08 GMT

Good series, there is a lot of life left in these old devices.

DAB

RE: Service my Philips 212 Turntable - Part 1: the defects

memyselfandi — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 18:24:30 GMT

Please keep it coming Jan - I always enjoy reading about other's repairs and fixes of "consumer electronics gear".

And yes, DUAL and Thorens are THE brand names which spring to mind if you are German (yes, Thorens is a Swiss company, I know-...).
Technics SL-1200s? Meh, yes, but just another model for me and my friends back in the 80s [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-ad2c496b-6f90-4df3-9500-32a4d2027011/contentimage_5F00_3.png:16:16]

Cheers,

M.

RE: Service my Philips 212 Turntable - Part 1: the defects

Jan Cumps — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 14:43:12 GMT

I fixed this one in 2015:

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RE: Service my Philips 212 Turntable - Part 1: the defects

jw0752 — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 14:20:31 GMT

Hi Jan,

I will enjoy your series. In the hayday of turntables and particularly changers I repaired them for a living. I had a special jig so I could suspend them from the ceiling above my workbench. This gave me access to the underside mechanism so that problems could be observed while the table or changer was in operation. I found a lot of the time grease that had dried out causing semi frozen parts was the cause of malfunctions. Hardened rubber roller and belts was another common cause of problems. Here in the US we didn't see many Phillips. The names I recall were BSR, Girrard, Dual, GE, VM, Miracord, Realistic(Rebranded), and RCA.

John