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@@ClareRollo there is no belt. It is an idler drive changer. Access to that is accomplished by removing the turntable clip and lifting the platter off.

Thank you so much for your kind words. I'm beginning to really enjoy making videos of things I repair and then posting them.

@@Munakas-wq3gp oh, I think they're worth much more than that. They really sound good, especially for the size. Sometimes good things come in small packages!

@@Munakas-wq3gp i don't know where you get your information from, but jvc made some very good audio equipment. These speaker systems are very well built with quality drivers and crossover networks, so I think we've covered this topic enough

Thanks for the compliment. I really enjoyed doing this one. I need to get a clip on mic. Every noise I make at the bench comes through very loud!

Aha! That is the $5.00 question. It used to be an inside joke........not so much inside anymore! 😊

HI. No. It's been gone for quite a while

i haven’t had another bad i.f. transformer since. a lot of repairs but no silver mica disease

It seems a bit pricey, seeing as how its incomplete. It might not even work! Maybe check Kijiji or market place for an alternative

Idler is the logical place to start. Also motor bearings may be dry or gummed up. Thanks for the kind words. I'm still waiting for the new cartridge to arrive

Sounds like a good idea. You might consider a mono cartridge for the project or an older shure cartridge like an m44 with 3 mil stylus. I believe you can still get that stylus. I'm just about ready to video and publish my final findings and my thoughts compared to Dual tables.

How do you get the platter off? I bought one for $40. It looks immaculate. There’s not even a scratch on the lid. Came with the original box and manual. The platter barely turns when the tonearm is engaged.

I'm very aware of this problem. You have to tread carefully here. On the auto chang gear there are 2 pawls. They must be carefully disassembled and carefully cleaned and reassembled. Under no circumstance lubricate them. Sometimes you need to carefully burnish the hole that these gears mount on by using some fine emery cloth wound on a screwdriver or drill bit that barely fits the hole. Use some light grade oil then completely clean the debris with q tip and alcohol. Reassemble and try again. Sometimes I've resorted to grinding away some of the surface of the bigger Pawl. Unfortunately these garrard trip assemblies were not designed for light tracking situations. I hope this helps

mostly tube radios. transistor radios as well if i can get parts. no cb anymore

Not sure what you mean by harder!. I have no experience with the td160

I meant the springs....( I am not a native english speaker )@@dontheoldradioguy7180

i remember them. mostly in crwam colour

@@dontheoldradioguy7180yes, with turquoise highlights on the headshell.

That's a lot of record changers. I have quite a few but not that many. While I like the type A, it is unusual with the pusher platform, I don't think it is suitable for playing my quality record collection. I prefer manual turntables with anti skating systems. The one exception I find is just about any 1200 series Dual turntables. They are a giant step above most changers

When did you buy it? I bought mine a couple of years ago, second hand and is still working almost perfectly

@@brambaas999 I bought mine back in the late 80's

Hi Don. Thanks for your response. I love precision made equipment. I'm a big fan of Dual and Thorens turntables, some of the best on the planet. By the way, I've been glued to your channel watching your herculean efforts with that Bush radio. Impressive cabinet restoration. Cheers

all the ones I've seen have 4 pole motors

Easy answer. No to both. You need a receiver with a mag phono stage or an outboard mag phono preamp and then an amplifier

@@dontheoldradioguy7180 Thank you.

Well it wasn't rocket science, that's for sure. Since magnetic cartridges weigh usually substantially more, a counter weight is necessary. In my case I found an old steel ferrule that with a hole drilled into the back of the tone arm and a bolt and nut to attach, it wasn't much of a problem. The spring tracking pressure adjustment can be adjusted with the aid of a stylus pressure gauge to set it to, in this case it was 3.5 grams. The changer now tracks flawlessly and the trip mechanism works as it should. The only other concern is that the motor should be a 4 pole shaded motor and not a 2 pole. 2 pole motors usually radiate too much ac field and the result is excessive hum in the output. Check online for the difference in how a 2 pole phono motor looks as opposed to a 4 pole motor to figure out which you have. Don't forget that if you change to a magnetic cartridge, you will need to add a preamp

@@dontheoldradioguy7180 Thanks for the quick reply. I appreciate it.

There could be many different cartridges used on this model. You need to have a lose look at the shape of the stylus and go to a stylus supplier like my needle store and find one that looks exactly the same

There could have been any number of choices for cartridges for that model. Some were ceramic and some like mine have magnetic cartridge. If you're looking for advice, you'd need to send a close up picture of the cartridge in question

@@dontheoldradioguy7180 i saw the stylus number N50SD needle

@@dontheoldradioguy7180 i think i found it from Amazon thank you Sir

@@bobetization If I'm not mistaken, you lift the tone arm as high as possible, take the stylus by the lp/78 flange twist it gently forward and release it from the brass clip that holds it in place

@@dontheoldradioguy7180 thank you Sir th-cam.com/video/e3w9y8AkN0Y/w-d-xo.html

Not knowing what kind of system i don't know for sure, but the cartridge in that turntable does require an riaa compensated magnetic preamplifier

These need a receiver that has a phono input and with a built in pre amp. Not sure what a stack system is that you got, but actually all turntables need a receiver with a phono input with a pre amp. Many of the receivers from the mid 90’s and up did away with the phono input to save money plus record players were not very popular in the mid 90’s and up. When I was a teen in the late 70’s, I had this top of the line Sanyo boombox with the 2 detachable mics. I used to have a tt plugged in and I think it had a phono input or aux and it ran the tt and like a fill in stereo receiver. So in the mid 80’s i bought a small JVC boombox to do the same and you could barely hear the records on the TT and then when you switch back to the radio, it was like full blast. I took the boombox back not knowing back then what the issue was and got a Sony boombox and the same thing, but kept the boombox but didn’t try to connect the tt to the boombox. I guess the Sanyo I had, had a phono preamp and since it was top of the line. Later around 1998, I bought a mid range Sony receiver and it didn’t have a phono input and when you ran it through the aux, nothing came out. So that’s when I learned about the preamp to support the tt through that channel. Sorry for the long story and hope I made sense. So I would look into getting a preamp and that should get it running unless you get a vintage receiver with a phono input and with a built in preamp. Amps should work the same, but I don’t have much experience with them but should power everything.

​@jacknjill3000 Thank you for the details, I had found my way to a pre-amp and sorted the issue, at some point I will go the extra mile and upgrade to a new system when budget and time allows for this guilty pleasure

HI I don't have the turntable anymore. I not only made a new plinth, but I made the whole base out of many layers of baltic birch plywood. I had a template and I made several sections of the base and glued them all together and with a spindle sander I made all the layers even. Putting a new cartridge in was easy. The headshell is removable and it has the standard mount for all standard cartridges. Cheers, Don

Send me an emailto donsaudioservice@gmail.com with a picture or 2 and I'll try to help

Sorry for the late reply. My unit has a magnetic cartridge in it. Most of those changers came with ceramic cartridges like the astatic 181. Getting quality replacement ceramic cartridges are getting difficult. Those cheap Chinese cartridges with the red stylus are to be avoided at all costs. They are cheap and poor quality and don't fit the standard 2 hole mounts of ceramic cartridges of yester year

@@dontheoldradioguy7180 I've picked up a turntable with a pickering v15 cart, which I find to be pretty decent with an elliptical stylus. I feel that would go well with this turntable. Your thoughts?

@@andrewdmandru3756 HI. In a word no!. That cartridge is high compliance and meant for tone arms that have better "trackability" The fact that it has an eliptical stylus means it would need anti skating compensation which that Garrard doesn't have. Get a basic mag cartridge, the lowest price one from China would do. It will need to track at about 4 grams, much higher than the pickering.

@@dontheoldradioguy7180 thanks

I guess it's not clear, but it was a complete failure and I abandoned the effort

I agree on the restuffing thing. I think it's overkill. Besides I love to play with the design, trying to better the performance. Sometimes it works, sometimes I de-mod the circuit. The go to for getting the absolute best sound from a mantle radio has to be Zenith. I've had 2 Zenith mantle radios with almost unbelievable sound from a 50C5 output tube. The pushbuttons are a waste of time where I live. There is only 1 station that comes in reliably. On a good winter's night and with all dimmers and such turned off I can get quite a few more stations.

@@dontheoldradioguy7180 A least you have an AM station. Where I am here in the Arkansas Ozarks there are no AM stations that will pick up with a built-in antenna. So I transmit my own station of old 30s and 40s tunes.

@@JWimpy Yeah, but it's a goofy small town wonder that broadcasts obituaries every afternoon. I have a long wire outdoor antenna and it's easy to couple to the loopstick or loop antenna. I even have a home brew impedence matcher and especially with the short wave bands does help to better the reception. I agree on the rebroadcast device. I've started on two versions, one solid state and one tube. They've been put on the shelf so I can do up something else. I'll have to get them out and get at least one of them going over the next winter

Funny thing that your're from Arkansas. I've become addicted to the TH-cam videos on your state troopers and their chase videos. Nice country down there!

@@dontheoldradioguy7180 I would love to watch the build when you do the tube version transmitter.

These mechanisms that Garrard built after the Type "A" series were the most reliable and easiest to repair. Unfortunately Garrard's idlers did not age well, and most have to be rebuilt, which is very expensive. The contemporay changer brand of "Dual" I have found that most of the idlers even though over 50 years old, can be resurfaced and ready to go for another 20 years or so.

That is the first of that model I've come across. I did have an sl-220 which I heavily modded. I sold it and now I wished I hadn't

I sure do! And I've only just begun to start on 1

I think it's more apt to say that both the active woofer and the passive radiator resonate at different frequencies, so your comment would be appropriate only when the passive radiator is in resonance

Hi. I definately would NOT use it until it's been serviced. More than the household hazard it will likely be seriously damaged with use under that condition. Get it to a good service centre and get it serviced.

I think that up here these things are treated like throw away items. Most were tossed when better designs came out. I just happened to acquire what I have from a friend who collects everything!

Hi Bob. I doubt that I would spend any time on a pocket transistor radio. They tend to be a.m. only and we get only one a.m. station up here.

just like most everything these days. Just cheap stuff to go to the landfill just after warranty expires.