I'm buying another 8002. It allegedly has an MMC1 cartridge and fails to drop the tonearm. What's the likely problem? Will I need another capacitor kit or is it somehing else? Phil

I would use the 8000 board in my 8002 if you told me they were identical; I could replace the caps first and then it would be simpler to just install the re-capped board, Thanks for clearing that up, phil

First, let me thank the community for being so helpful; I'm so glad I found you folks! "Dillen" AKA Martin is sending me a capacitor kit, and I'm expecting my 8002 to make a full recovery. As I said earlier, I have the circuitboard out of an 8000 also. Can anyone tell me if it is fully interchangeable with the 8002 part as the service

Dillen-figured out how to get a PM and I replied but can't review what I sent so I'm wondering if you got it. For my sake and for the community's enlightenment, before ordering capacitor kits(s), are there any other failure-prone components I should acquire? Is the light source in the slave arm a consumable? Also, the arm descends about

Wonderful! How do we get going on this purchase? Phil

As far as I know, the 8000 and 8002 are virtually identical excepting the 8000 used a compsite tacho-disc (the 8002's was perforated metal) and the 8002 used a different arm for the mmc1-5 cartridges. Both used the linear drive motor/tacho-disc feedback system and were the respecive TTOL models when produced. The service manual covers the 6006,

My 8002 turntable has started to suddenly end play as if asked to, usually when I've gotten involved in listening to something-very frustrating.This seems unrelated to how long the unit has been run, or how far it's played the record, quite random. It's been suggested that I check C15, C19, R64/65. (assuming that the disc-sensing circuit