All right folks. Now then, you are looking at that and you are wondering, “What on earth is going on?” But basically, that is the underside of Technic SL 1200 turntable. What you are looking at there is the other half of the motor. Now, there is one half of the motor. That is one the actual platter. And, there is the other half of the motor. Now, the reason that I am doing this video, I have an email from a guy who said that whatever he is doing, the needle is still jumping on the platter. I did suggest checking the anti-skating et cetera. Then, he emailed me back and they said that the actual platter was wobbling. It was not straight. Now then, there could be a reason for that.
Now then, if you want to find this procedure, the only that I would suggest is when I say, do it at your own risk, everything is very, very logical. Now then, two pointers, one thing is when you unscrew screws, put them in a set together. In other words, when you unscrew because what you will have – by the way, this one does need a clean. When you take this guy off here and of course to bear in your mind, this is from the SL 1200 mark 2. Now then, you got these little screws here. You can even leave them in where they are or put these screws together on here somewhere. Bear in your mind that the reason that I am saying this is because you are going to have other screws that are going to come into the equation and you do not want to muddle them up because if you do muddle them up and you rescrew a wrong screw into a wrong hole, then what happens is you could knack the thread. So, it is only a tiny pointer but it is worth watching out for.
So what I have done is that I have taken the platter off the turntable, I then removed from underneath the platter this. It is almost like a piece of plastic that covers around that area. Now then, if we look now, what we got here is that we got this area which is basically the circuit board. Now then, what you will find and this is an old SL 1200 mark 2, in fact, this one is about 25 years old so it does not need a damn good clean. Now then, you have three screws, what you need to do is unscrew those and you remove that area there. Now then, the reason that I have done that is because these three screws here are the only actual screws apart from the screws that are holding the circuit board down. Those three black screws are the only ones that are actually holding the motor spindle in place. Now you watch, if I lift that up, you can see that the other half of the motor is moveable now. Watch this, if I pull this up like so – now, bear in your mind that you could in fact. If I just undo that bit there, that is the bit that goes to the pitch control. What I can do now is I can take away this guy here and that now is basically the spindle. That is where the platter will sit. So, if I will show you, we will fit that on there like that. There you go.
Now then, the reason that I am doing this is that the guy, like I said, he said that the actual platter was a bit wobbly. Now then, there could be a reason. All right, I will put this back in. Like I have said, this is all quite self-explanatory because underneath, the actual circuit board, this particular piece here can only go in one position. So, you have not got to worry about it. If you think about it, and again, here is a bit of advice for you, this I what I used to do in the past. Again, it is quite logical, if I pulled apart an amp or a turntable, what I would do is that I would actually video myself doing it. Now, the reason for that is that then if I thought, “Shoot! Where did that screw go? Or, where did that cod go or this wire go, whatever.” Then all that I do, I would look back at the video and I would know exactly where it goes because I videoed myself doing it.
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