Hello, Just came back from plugging the turntable back in to the power which I had done to get the platter to stop turning and all the lights to completely turn off. After plugging it in again, the lights were all off. So I pushed play button and the arm went to the beginning of the record, dropped into the groove as it should and played advancing in

Hello Jacques, Sorry I have not been back to report, night out with the wife. Good and bad news. It utns out that I had tried to get the tone arm level with the detector arm by making the "Lowering adjustment" shown in the service manual. Apparently the tone arm was not advancing because the needle was just not setting down far enough in the

Hello Graham and Olly, It turns out for whatever reason that the suction after I oiled the damper cylinder was too much for the spring to pull out the plunger from the cylinder, I had just put a little sewing machine oil on my finger to lubricate the inside of the cylinder when I oiled it. So I tried loosening the screw on the cylinder and it now works

Hello Olly, In my excitement about the table working to a great extent I was not accurate in describing which arm that is hooked to the magnetic coil is not moving, it is the one in the back of the coil not the front. It is the one hooked to the damper cylinder. I ahve removed the damper cylinder and cleaned and lubed it with sewing machine oil but

Incredible! I resoldered all the capacitors and the plugs around the edge of the board and almost everything now works! I am so grateful to all of those who contributed to trouble shooting this, your a great bunch. And to Martin who was answering questions about capacitor identification by private email that helped clearify some of the questions I had

Hello, I do appreciate everyone's feedback and will check out all of your suggestions this weekend. I intend to check all the wires and look for bad solder connections. I did try to checkout the lamp in the sensor arm to see if it were bad by tuching the two wires of the lamp with the probes of a meter in the continuity setting. I hate to admit

Hello, There was quite a bit of discussion since I last looked at the forum and my post about my problems regarding the lamp being out in the detector arm and the foto sensor at the base of the tone and detector arm being on as long as power was to the table. [quote user="Step1"] So when the arm comes to park, there is an audible click, the

Hello Jacques, Again my thanks but just so that I am clear, is the leaf switch you refer to the same one that stops the arm from going any further at the rest position and the platter from rotating? Both of these things stop when the arm returns to the resting position but the light remains on. I even tried manually pushing the switch so I could hear

Hello Jacque, Thanks for the encouragement with this suggestion. How might I test the bulb and I assume a continunity text with a meter could be used to do that? I certainly will check this out as possibility but I have a question. Do you think the foto sensor at the base of the arm alway being lit even when the table is in the stopped position and

Hello Martin and Jacques, Thank you for the reply. I checked out the IR detection as was suggested and I do see the blue-violet light in the dark. One other thing of note is that the end of the sensor arm does not light up as the arm travels which may mean nothing but I am mentioning it anyway. My table was one that had dual capacitors and there was