SME Series III, V15-3, Technics

In article snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com, pinnerite snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com scribeth thus

SME are still around contact them..

Going back to 1970s Hifi systems. Garrard was a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company I worked for. Anyone in the company (who wasn't in to high-end HiFi) owned a Garrard.

Yes, I had this sort of kit. SME arm, Shure V15 cartridge, Thorens direct drive deck, Quad amp, IMF Professional monitors. My hearing was sharper than most, so I could hear the difference. Most of my mates had poorer hearing and claimed their cheapo systems sounded just like mine.

Clearly for them, spending any more would not have been justifiable.

But I sold it all off five or six years ago, for £450 to a dealer.

Any way now my hearing has gone to pot, to I tend not to listen to all those CDs anyway.

Roughly how big is the hole in diameter?

It's possible to get kits of tiny screws as used for glasses repair, eg:

They might give you some examples you can try to see if they fit the thread. Then you know what size to look for (or, maybe one of these will suffice if it doesn't need to be a grub screw).

If it's possible it's a non-metric thread then you might have to look for equivalent screws. If a tiny screw, what thread would it likely be - BA, UNF?

Theo

I have an SME 3009 arm. Examining the weight, there are no threads in the hole which looks as if it might hold a grub screw. However, there is another blind hold beneath it. In this is a short spring and follower.

See

Anything of use here, particularly the "Directory: "III_Spare_Parts_List" contents..." at the bottom of the page

I still have, and occasionally use, my SP25 MK1!

The MkIII was current when I started, and later I moved to a Pioneer PL-12D, and got married....

Is that a new home for Jim's website? Long time no hear from him around here ...

Thanks. I've saved trhe link,

Alan

Before the Technics I had a 401. It looked thebees knees. (Leak amplifier).

Alan

Probably far removed from the original company but worth a try (Quad still has some decent support for example).

Failing which, worth a post on:

Yes, it's Jim L. But I'd hardly say it's new - I uploaded info on the Ferrograph F307Mk2 amplifier and Garrard SP25Mk1 well over 8 years ago to the Torrens website. Jim still has a website at

AP76 here. There must have been some reason why I bought that model, but it's lost in the mists of time.

I remember it as audiomisc

I had an SP25 for decades. Replaced with a Thorens which I still have.

I had a job in an electronics warehouse that sold hi-fi, with one branch in Tottenham Court Road.

Anyone remember Technical Trading?

That's one of the sublinks on the orpheusweb page.

I think so, but there were a few electronics shops in TCR. Was it between Proops and Tottenham Court Road underground station, perhaps near Stephen Street?