Best Of

Cutting Armacell Armaflex TAP18230 insulation tape

Monotonous tedium!!

Jay already had bulbs from Bulb Town, so best practice is to replace them while the tables apart. Especially the two inside the tonearm. Deck takes sixteen 7219 12v along with two 680 5v for the record size bulbs. The control panel takes 11 bulbs. Sadly Bulb Town closed September 12.



Bulbs were tested before and after install with my Fluke PM2811. All harness's unplugged from board so no back feed issues.



I've seen pics where guys tear or cut the glued rubber block off the PCB. After desoldering with the Hakko, I was able to knock them out easy.




This is how I found the wiring in the tonearm. That is not the factory way.



This is how it's supposed to be. The SM pic was pretty bad but someone took a nice pic of how to do it. My cell died but I kept on going. The mute switch was cleaned with DeOxit and flushed with 99% iso. The after-Ohm test was better than the before.



A little glue holds the wires in the photocell bracket that bolts to bottom of tonearm. Previous repair used tape so the photocell bracket wasn't lying flat. You have to insert tonearm wiring into the open square then attach it to bottom of tonearm without pinching any wires. Some wires were flattened from previous repair work, but not broken, insulation intact. I found it easier to route wiring and attach the photocell with arm not installed in deck.



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New entry level series!