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Christmas holiday plan: repair a 60s turntable

Jan Cumps

I have a turntable from the mid-60, Thorens TD 124. It has a mechanical issue: the speed selector has a worn-out component.

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This holiday I'll see if I can fix this. These tables, and the components, go for crazy prices (check ebay for anything related to a TD 124, it's a strange world out there).

The worn component is part of this contraption:

 

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  • in reply to Andrew J

    Glad it's sorted! I was planning on visiting two days ago, and would have reached out to you closer to the date to see if you were around. Planned it about two months ago as an Xmas time off thing, but a friend fell seriously ill a couple of weeks before (fortunately almost recovered now) so we had to cancel. Will hopefully try to visit sometime in the next few months, because it's been at least 3 years since I visited there.

  • Checking the player while it's standing up. Washers and circlips are replaced.

    Test to see if the idler wheel engages at the right height of the tapered axle:

    And a test with the platter on:

  • in reply to shabaz

    Please do, I'd be happy to meet up and show you around.  Not sure what has changed in the last 3 years - the Bombe went there in 2018 so you probably saw that, EDSAC is more finished, Heath Robinson is up and running and there's typically a rotating gallery.  You'll still get a chance to better your score on Manic Miner!

  • Worky:

  • needledrop: Janis Ian and Giorgio Moroder: Fly Too High. (c)&(p):1979 CBS Inc. Fair use.

    Recording (mp3cut.net).m4a

    Sampled with the SoundBlaster external soundcard that   sent me.

  • in reply to Jan Cumps

    Hi Jan,

    That sounds great! Awesome repair work.

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  • in reply to Jan Cumps

    Looks like you spent some elbow grease and wiped down surfaces or was the plastic cellophane removed:) 

  • in reply to colporteur

    Grinning it was clean, just gathered dust from being stored away for about 3 years.

    I lost the photos of how it looked like when I bought it. It was sitting inside a tent in a yard sale, on a table in a puddle of water.

    I also lost videos and photos from when I took apart the motor and the complete tonearm.
    Still surprised to this day that I managed to get that tonearm (and it's plethora of ball-bearings) back together. Cheapest replacement I can find online (with issues) is above 400€.