Record Deck dismantle - Dual CS505-2

It has stopped going round !! Or at least it doesn't start going round now.

I suspect the switch operated by the playing arm, but I can't see how to get into the thing ! I've got the platter off, but am flummoxed thereafter. Anybody help please.

Thanks Rob

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robgraham
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Eh? How can the belt fall off if it's not a belt drive?

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Ronald Raygun

In message , robgraham writes

Don't know the Dual

I presume its not a belt drive and the belt has fallen off

Reply to
geoff

Sometimes I think English should be written with help from mathematics

Evaluate the contents of the brackets first !

"I presume its not (a belt drive and the belt has fallen off)"

Bob

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Bob Minchin

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John

Magic ...

Yeah, it looked clumsy when I looked at it

I just thought "what the f*ck, the pedants'll all be out building snowmen"

I was wrong

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geoff

It's too dark to build snowmen. Besides, if I were a proper pedant, I'd have picked you up on your "its".

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Ronald Raygun

Last one I played with had a stapled on base sheet of hardboard. Taking that off revealed all, refit it with screws instaed. A lot of decks are accessed this way.

NT

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Tabby

I can no longer be arsed to apostrophise the possessive pronoun every time, in much the same way I don't always bother to capitalise

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geoff

A friend's one did this, it was the start / run capacitor on the motor.

Access from underneath IIRC.

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Ron Lowe

It's interesting how quickly a query can get de-railed isn't it, and also how quickly people don't read what is written - I said I had got the platter off, so I get instructions of how to do so; it's also reasonable to assume that having got the platter off, that would expose the belt.

OK Rant over.

Thanks Ron and Tabby - I saw the staples and rejected them as an access route pretty quickly ! I did find a website where I down loaded the Service Manual - but that didn't help one iota. Obviously servicing what drives the whole thing was not considered; German so it will last more than the 30 years since I bought it !!

Hey-ho off with the staples then.

Rob

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robgraham

me neither, i was on about this when i went fishing in march with my mates rod and tony today...the pair of us were freezing.

(March in Cambridgeshire, with my mate's rod, and Tony)

:-p

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Phil L

Yes, quite so. Man up. Get into the gubbins and then we can get to work.

Does the thing spin if you give it a helping hand?

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Ron Lowe

Actually, now I remember more clearly, it was not a capacitor. It was a power resistor.

Open the bottom of the thing, and take some * good quality* photos and post them somewhere we can look.

Are you electronically knowledgable enough to make resistance measurements?

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Ron Lowe

If you'd slipped your mates over your rod, you might have been warmer

Tony would have thanked you for it

Reply to
geoff

Hi Ron - can do all electronics (degree that is now useless as it was

50 years ago) but that amount of experience will manage a resistance measurement!

Thanks for your help. With 12 " of snow here (Edinburgh) I think this might be a suitable indoor job for today.

Rob

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robgraham

IIRC that's not the way to go. Remove the platter, then the top plinth. The transit bolts are 'keyed in' to the bottom plinth. A bit of jiggling and the top plinth lifts straight out.

Rob

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Rob

There's a niche market in restoring valve kit, fwiw.

NT

Reply to
Tabby

That's just as well, because the possessive pronoun must not be apostrophised. You should only (and always) apostrophise "it's" when it means "it is".

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Ronald Raygun

Tooooo late !!! Now discovered that !!

And of course now that I have fought to get at the mechanism, and could see nothing wrong, it worked. Bugger. Now to put it all back together again.

Either the microswitch is being troublesome or the operating mechanism has developed a bit of slack.

Rob

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robgraham

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