I have the same exact player, and it’s a Wildcat stereo from 1975 which was one of the last of the GE record players, but the same as this one which is your Swingmate. I’m sorry that your video has abruptly ended right in the middle.
You took a working record player and f***ed it up. Why would you sand down the motor spindle? That will only make it play slow. The motor is a synchronous motor. That means the speed of the motor depends on the frequency of the AC power (60 Hz in the U.S.). REALLY accurate speed. There is probably a lever under the deck which is moved when there are no records stacked, so the tone arm will park, and not go back onto the record.
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I have the same exact player, and it’s a Wildcat stereo from 1975 which was one of the last of the GE record players, but the same as this one which is your Swingmate. I’m sorry that your video has abruptly ended right in the middle.
I was expecting it to drop the record on top of the tone arm when it was scraping on the platter.
Did you really trash it I would have gladly taken it off of your hands
You took a working record player and f***ed it up. Why would you sand down the motor spindle? That will only make it play slow. The motor is a synchronous motor. That means the speed of the motor depends on the frequency of the AC power (60 Hz in the U.S.). REALLY accurate speed. There is probably a lever under the deck which is moved when there are no records stacked, so the tone arm will park, and not go back onto the record.
Millions were made and are relatively easy to find so no huge loss.