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Originally Posted by maxhifi
You stole it for what you paid
Go to vinylengine and download the service manual.
You will need to replace a belt which drives the tonearm, replace some old dried up lubricant, and possibly a turntable drive belt (not sure if this is a direct or belt drive model)
For the ground wire, I just thread one though the hole for the proprietary technics cable and screw it to some metal inside the unit. You may prefer to order a cable, I believe they're about $10 online.
Get a replacement stylus too.
As for sound, etc? I love the full auto linear trackers of the 80s. I have a technics SL3 as my workbench turntable for testing amps, and I also have a Sansui P-L95R which goes one step farther and plays both sides. They're a bit fiddly to get into top working order but the reward is a trouble free and relaxing experience.. all manual works for some people but I like automatic players since I listen late at night and often fall asleep with the music on.
Linear trackers get rid of the inner groove tracking distortion which plagues cheap record players. Cheap ones dont sound we nice as expensive ones but this should come as no surprise  anyhow good luck! |
Thanks for the information!
I had already downloaded the service manual and owners manual for this machine and its definitely got impressive specs to say the least.
This machine thankfully is a direct drive machine so no belts to have to worry about (at least not with the platter anyways).
I have inspected the machine and even tested it out with a record I had handy and it works perfectly yet, the needle is still in good shape and the cartridge it has on it is a Shure M92 LT cartridge which from what I read online was one of the best cartridges these Linear Track Turntables could have.
As for the Ground Wire I did find some for sale on ebay for $16 and free shipping.
From what I could tell this turntable seems to be a low hours unit.