Thanks for this video, Phil! I had the 2nd problem (at 6:05 in the video) with the loose hidden 2mm Allen Key. Hard to remove cover plate, as not been removed before on my 2000 year Planar 3, but once off 5 minutes to tighten the Allen screw & now fixed. Thanks saved me a 25 mile drive to Crewe (& 25 miles back!). 🙂
Phill the workshops videos are great but please please sort out your camera. Perhaps a stand would be helpful and you would have two free hands. Keep them coming I look forward to next video
I am one of those who would caution about securing the arm too tightly , from my experience with a modified rega 250 arm that Michell used at the time to modify for their house branded TechnoArm "A', which I own. It is the old style single post design. Too tight is very detrimental to the sound , and is easily heard , as is too loose. Finger tight is about right. When I saw that huge rega factory supplied wrench , I knew this wasn't a concern of rega, they just don't want stuff coming loose, for obvious reasons. Because My arm is mounted on a Michell gyro SE, a table with only a vestigial plinth, I can easily reach underneath to manipulate the fastening screw, which I sometimes do when critical listening , to align with the thickness of the record I might raise from normal. Thus came the experience with the optimum torque on the securing nut. Good and tight is not good in this instance, at least on my rig, which only shares some design principles with rega , and is not a rega . But the Arm is basically a rega, just hardened and lightened.
Hello. Thank you VERY much for this video. My RB300 has been loose in the body for years. I was almost on the point of trying to squirt some glue in it!!! All now fixed took about 5 minutes. Thanks again
Thanks for your very informative video, I have been searching on how to tighten this since last year, until found your video yesterday. My RB300 RP3 also has this issue. But after I tightened one allen bolt/screw, I am thinking, this is not balance if only one bolt, so I look carefully at adjacent to the bolt that you shown in this video, then yes, there is another bolt there..so I tightened the other one..now it is totally rigid. Thanks again Phil.😀
Hi Phil Unless Rega had stuff manufactured for them , that lock nut on the base could be 25mm . A pretty common size in the electrical world , but I like the spanner they provided . As an owner of a modern P3 I have yet to have any problems with the unit , apart from the squeak on startup that many have mentioned . But it’s not a problem to me Best wishes and kind regards. 😀👍👍👍
Hi, I also had the second problem, now fixed after watching your video instructions, thanks so much. Would there be any issues with not replacing the little round cap?
The little Allen key bolt under the cap is to adjust the height of the arm, you do this when the nut is loose then tighten the nut. You shouldn't need to adjust the allen key bolt because by rotating the body should tighten it against the key for the right height then you tighten the nut.
@@iancasson62 My honest opinion, I had a Rega 3 back in the late 70’s and they haven’t really improved since then. Motor, bearing and tonearm all stuck to the same square bit of cheap MDF, no adjustable VTA, Tonearm fixed to the MDF with 3 wood screws.
Thanks for this video, Phil! I had the 2nd problem (at 6:05 in the video) with the loose hidden 2mm Allen Key. Hard to remove cover plate, as not been removed before on my 2000 year Planar 3, but once off 5 minutes to tighten the Allen screw & now fixed. Thanks saved me a 25 mile drive to Crewe (& 25 miles back!). 🙂
Phill the workshops videos are great but please please sort out your camera. Perhaps a stand would be helpful and you would have two free hands. Keep them coming I look forward to next video
I am one of those who would caution about securing the arm too tightly , from my experience with a modified rega 250 arm that Michell used at the time to modify for their house branded TechnoArm "A', which I own. It is the old style single post design. Too tight is very detrimental to the sound , and is easily heard , as is too loose. Finger tight is about right.
When I saw that huge rega factory supplied wrench , I knew this wasn't a concern of rega, they just don't want stuff coming loose, for obvious reasons.
Because My arm is mounted on a Michell gyro SE, a table with only a vestigial plinth, I can easily reach underneath to manipulate the fastening screw, which I sometimes do when critical listening , to align with the thickness of the record I might raise from normal. Thus came the experience with the optimum torque on the securing nut. Good and tight is not good in this instance, at least on my rig, which only shares some design principles with rega , and is not a rega . But the Arm is basically a rega, just hardened and lightened.
Hello. Thank you VERY much for this video. My RB300 has been loose in the body for years. I was almost on the point of trying to squirt some glue in it!!! All now fixed took about 5 minutes. Thanks again
Thanks for your very informative video, I have been searching on how to tighten this since last year, until found your video yesterday. My RB300 RP3 also has this issue. But after I tightened one allen bolt/screw, I am thinking, this is not balance if only one bolt, so I look carefully at adjacent to the bolt that you shown in this video, then yes, there is another bolt there..so I tightened the other one..now it is totally rigid. Thanks again Phil.😀
Hi Phil Unless Rega had stuff manufactured for them , that lock nut on the base could be 25mm . A pretty common size in the electrical world , but I like the spanner they provided . As an owner of a modern P3 I have yet to have any problems with the unit , apart from the squeak on startup that many have mentioned . But it’s not a problem to me Best wishes and kind regards. 😀👍👍👍
Very usefull video.
Hi, I also had the second problem, now fixed after watching your video instructions, thanks so much. Would there be any issues with not replacing the little round cap?
Easily solved with a 32mm bicycle headset spanner. Done mine (RB250) many a time.
The little Allen key bolt under the cap is to adjust the height of the arm, you do this when the nut is loose then tighten the nut. You shouldn't need to adjust the allen key bolt because by rotating the body should tighten it against the key for the right height then you tighten the nut.
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Rega turntable’s really are rubbish.
Unlike your considered, sage and wise opinion which is the very definition of practical and useful counsel and a great assistance to us all ;0P
@@russputin6294 You’re welcome.
your a great help Ron 🥵
@@iancasson62 My honest opinion, I had a Rega 3 back in the late 70’s and they haven’t really improved since then. Motor, bearing and tonearm all stuck to the same square bit of cheap MDF, no adjustable VTA, Tonearm fixed to the MDF with 3 wood screws.
That is not worth of an expensive tt