04-03-2016, 11:37 AM
Hey all,
Doc here. I posted about this radio/phono last April. I've come a long way since then (I had just started trying to restore radios and had never held a solder gun) but I am having turntable issues. I bought a replacement cartridge from Ed Crockett and the phono worked fine- for a while. This morning I was playing Nat King Cole when he started to kind of- quaver? You know, up and down like the turntable wasn't running smoothly. And the more I fiddled with it, the worse it got until now it plays noticeably slower overall along with the still- wavering sound. What should I look for as the culprit? All I did so far was to spray WD40 into the motor and blow it out with a compressor, took the hard-rubber wheel off and cleaned and replaced it, and checked the wheel for runout with a micrometer. It doesn't appear to be out of round but that's sure what it sounds like. Actually the wheel looks to be in great shape. Pile on! I need advice.
Doc
Doc here. I posted about this radio/phono last April. I've come a long way since then (I had just started trying to restore radios and had never held a solder gun) but I am having turntable issues. I bought a replacement cartridge from Ed Crockett and the phono worked fine- for a while. This morning I was playing Nat King Cole when he started to kind of- quaver? You know, up and down like the turntable wasn't running smoothly. And the more I fiddled with it, the worse it got until now it plays noticeably slower overall along with the still- wavering sound. What should I look for as the culprit? All I did so far was to spray WD40 into the motor and blow it out with a compressor, took the hard-rubber wheel off and cleaned and replaced it, and checked the wheel for runout with a micrometer. It doesn't appear to be out of round but that's sure what it sounds like. Actually the wheel looks to be in great shape. Pile on! I need advice.
Doc
