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| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II The following, about overhauling the main (spindle) bearing, is from Sander Mommers on the Lenco Lovers forum athttp://www.lenco-lovers.com/forum/=================================================Main bearings.. here's how I do it. First, see if th... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Plastic idler, or metal?For years I haven't seen a single plastic idler whose rubber is still usable. That stuff hardens and inevitably makes for rough spots.If it's a metal idler and it is developing noise due to rough or hardened rubber, you can... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Participants in this forum may be interested in an article by Garrard chief engineer E. W. Mortimer, in the July 1967 issue of Component Technology magazine, a technical publication of the Plessey Group, which owned Garrard at the time.Go to:http:... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II A typical 401 runs fast without the magnetic brake, so if you remove it, you need to reduce the turntable's speed. Other than a variac which reduces torque and motor RPM (and thus motor inertia) another way to alter the speed downward so it's accu... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II On the 401 the eddy current disc should run true to avoid generating vibration, because the braking magnet is only on one side of the disc. The 301 magnetic brake is a horse-shoe shaped affair with the magnetic force transferred from the magnet it... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II With the Decca, adding mass to the headshell seems to be the most effective, in my experience.I have observed this with the modified Rabco SL-8E on my Garrard 301, and with a homebuilt Well Tempered clone that was on my modified AR belt-drive. On ... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Eico HF-87 is legendary. Any time you have a chance to get one at a reasonable price, don't pass it up!Of course since many were built from kits, workmanship can vary, but we're not going to be putting them into service without some upgrading and ... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II The same result, reduced vibration with lowered operating voltage, was observed in the Garrard 301 and 401 many years ago.Something like 90 volts or so (in the USA where 117 volts is nominally "Normal") was generally considered optimal. | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II THOUGHT it was a 500C, as soon as you mentioned 7591 tubes. The Fisher 400...no "C", never had one...used the even scarcer 7868. At least the 7591 is available in a current version from a Russian factory.A relative of mine bought his system in 196... | |
| Bogen B62 / Lenco L62 The Bogen B62 is a dressed-up version of the Bogen B61. Where the B61 was a rather drab plain light grey, the B62 is charcoal grey with a brushed chrome trim plate on the right side. Under the skin they are identical.The Bogen versions of the LIGH... | |
| Anyone can tell me the cartridge shown here? As Hdm said...a Linn Basik which is a rebranded Audio-Technica AT93. That was a "cheap and cheerful" standard cartridge on many stack systems from Sanyo, Fisher and the like in the 1980s. Of course, Linn's fluffery in marketing it, made it sound l... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Widge, if there are four wires at the headshell, it's a stereo hookup there. Three wires at the tonearm to the junction might be a common-grounded stereo hookup: one hot for each channel and a shared, common ground.My in-progress Bogen still has i... | |
| Is a good Cermic Cartridge an Oxymoron? There once was a high quality, affordable ceramic cartridge, from Grado (Yes, THAT Grado). It was the Grado B series, from the mid-1960s. It fed a magnetic phono input, tracked light, 1.5 to 2 grams depending on how you set the user-adjustable com... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Ozzy, I would say that "Despot" was intentional on Jean's part.Is there any wonder that I shop at Lowe's? | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II I'm still in the process of reviving my Bogen (Lenco imported to the USA in the early 1960s) but play my white, grease-bearing Garrard 301 almost daily. It is GREAT that the "high-end tables cheap" mantra lives on, despite the disappearance of Jea... |