Having consumed thousands of hours of electronics repair videos, I have to say that the hinge fabrication was the most impressive effort that I have witnessed. Extremely well done. Bravo 👏 👏 👏
99.9% of repair shops would’ve turned down that repair .It’s so nice to see the speed of diagnostic tests done and repaired before most techs would explain it can’t be fixed.
That was one of the most impressive repairs I have ever witnessed. You not only master electronics, but you are a very skilled mechanical engineer as well. You deserve this channel.
The engineering of those hinges alone probably surpass the cost of the unit five fold! I love your approach to fixing these problems, it truly blows my mind watching a master at work. WOW!!!
Electronic troubleshooting and repair AND mechanical fabrication skills. Rare combination in this day and age. Fantastic channel. Keep the restorations coming. 👏👏👏
Hi Iam great fan of your channel. But am somewhat puzzled how you make the repairs financially viable as the amount of time spent on these repair is quite lengthy. Or are the repairs just for your own enjoyment
You're a rare find in the repair community... I have been involved in the HiFi industry since 1953. Lucky is the person that brings their equipment to your bench and persons like yourself.
My grandfather gave me a Montgomery-Wards Airline console radio with 4 6F6 power tubes driving a 15" speaker. It had a film projector dial on a ground glass screen. With lots of different shortwave bands, the film moved up and down as bands changed and rotated with the tuning capacitor under it. Thank you for my life in hifi repair! I'm 77 now. 73 DE W4CSC Charleston, SC
Is there anything you can’t fix? That repair was amazing. Not only are you and excellent bench tech but also a great machinist. Making those hinges was a real test of patience and engineering. Fantastic channel. Truly the best of TH-cam.
Excellent job. I repaired one of those lids back in 92 and those hinges took 5 weeks to arrive from JVC and cost a fortune. Happy memories and a nice mod to boot.
45 Jahre als NC/CNC-Dreher/-Fräser/-Schleifer gearbeitet, hat es mir Freude gemacht, Dir bei der Reparatur dieses JVC-Plattenspielers zuzuschauen, zumal du erkennbar viel Spass dabei hattest! Hi-Fi und High-End habe ich seit 50 Jahren als Hobby. Ich hatte und habe Telefunken, LoeweOpta, DUAL, Universum, Grundig, Mitsubishi, Marantz, Kenwood, Sony, LUXMAN, WEGA, Denon, Yamaha und Magnat. Plattenspieler, Verstärker, Tuner, VHS-Recorder, Video 2000-Recorder, Tape-Deck, CD-Spieler, DVD-Spieler, BD-Spieler, Vorverstärkrer, Endstufe, Mono-Blöcke. Lautsprecher waren DUAL, WEGA, Quadral. So, jetzt kennst du meinen Lebenslauf! Ich bin 67, ich hatte selbst nie ein Auto. .
All of your videos are incredible Mark, but those aluminium brackets were out of this world. If there's a trophy somewhere for the world's best repairman, then I reckon it's got your name engraved on it.
I was chuffed you repaired the motor and enjoyed the usual electronic diagnosis and repair but my mind was blown when you machined replacement parts for the hinge mechanism. 🤯 wow
Mark I am getting quite addicted to your video's, you always go above and beyond, the actual fix! I saw one where you made a switch cover out of metal and now you are making hinges, you are a true one of a kind, sadly there aren't too many repair techs who actually have the skills and patience to work on older gear, or nearly new gear if you are my age!!, one of my favourites was watching you repair that old Ducatti radiogram, I also love seeing you add Bluetooth and extra inputs to older equipment to make them more useable with all the modern tech we have, my 72 Rotel receiver for instance only has tape as an extra input and adding extra inputs would make it live longer with my dac and cd players. Great video's Mark keep up the great work.
I am in awe. Not only do you have the electronic skills, but to manufacture those hinge brackets that just blew me away. It's now better than new and in these days of vinyl resurgence will be very desireable. Great video.
Really loving this channel. Superb diagnosis and repair, and great fun to watch. I have binge watched the entire back catalogue. Hope you soon get the number of subscribers you deserve! And that would be 250k+, at least 😊
Linear turntables were all the rage in the early 80's and if they deserved to be. The needle sits perfectly aligned in the groove, the way it should be. This can only be achieved using linear tracking.
Impressive, especially the fact that you are a pretty decent machinist too. JVC was one of the first japanese brands that started pushing cheap plastics. I am old enough to remember Sony devices made solid from stamped and machined metal, with decent electronics and mechanical design. I can see the enormous pride of restoring even these old cheap JVC clunkers and giving them a new life.
The pride in your work shows! Whoever owns this turntable sure brought it to the right person. Funny to see a mill and precision instrumentation in the same room. Very happy to have found your channel!
One of the most impressive jobs I've ever seen, considering the product has very little value. Your time and effort were amazing for a turntable worth perhaps £100 tops.
Up to the point of starting to fix the lid I thought this was brilliant. Then when you started to machine your own replacement hinges my jaw dropped and I thought this was amazing!
I have to say, I’m impressed. Stumbled upon this channel lately and am since binge watching. Thinking, what will this funny englishman do next. And before a weekend was over you’ve presented an astonishingly equipped lab, rewound transformers and machined aluminium parts for an old turntable. Makes me rethink my own approach to repairs. Very well done!
Absolutely incredible job, you've not only repaired all the faults but you've actually upgraded the hinges too that will never break again, i love old school tech👌
Mark has , as always , reached a level of excellence that 99% of the population could never achieve - and I have only understood about 1% of what he is doing ! Fantastic , as always
my post-college roommate had this turntable, and guests used to marvel at the automatic process. It was beyond state-of-the-art for that time just before CDs became the standard. I must have played Linda Ronstadt's "What's New" album 100 times on that machine. Yours is now probably about the only one still in operation 40 years later!
Mesmerizing. More fun to watch than a Barbie movie. The engineers that designed this turntable would be impressed. Darn plastic parts. Excellent video and audio work. 👍👍
Exactly my kind of guy, you are the perfect example of what sustainability should be about, a great virtue in my opinion. Such a shame to see how much stuff gets tossed at the skips which could easily be good for years with some TLC. You deserve way more likes, subscribed!
Excellent repair job , Mark , you have a lot of patience with your repairs and you are very thorough with every repair .Well done and keep the camera rolling , love the videos .
Ability to think and utilize solutions from information that cannot be found in any books, a keen eye, that willingness to go further and possibly fabricating a better part than OEM...just pure genius, Mark.
Hello Mark, a wonderful work! Just a few notes: I would also check and adjust the platter speeds, these are often off the value in those old belt driven turntables. As we see the turntable in question reads just the motor revolutions, not the revolutions of the platter, which are affected by the condition of the belt... which changes over time. The aftermarket belts too, these often happen to be an imprecise lookalikes, so the re-set of the motor speed has to be performed after the belt swap. Here you have to read the platter revolutions either with a stroboscopic disc and a strobe, or via a smartphone positioned on a cushion over the spindle and a measuring app for turntables, which is also precise enough, mostly, depending on the smartphone used 😅(Droids have better apps available and tend to measure more precisely than those Apples). Then I would also check and set the stylus pressure, for the similar reasons. Last but not least, I would give it a new stylus. Should it be an aftermarket stylus instead of the original, I would set the stylus pressure to the usual safe value of 1.75 - 2.0g, which most of the basic aftermarket styli are made to. All the best from Marko.
Hi Mark. I follow a lot of people who travel with electronics on TH-cam. You are my favorite. Super professional and with a radiance and a mood that makes you completely happy just to hear and watch. We are very impressed that you can also do all metal processing. It could be great if you also made TV, Video and Broadcast Video. Hope you continue to post many more videos
when I saw the hinge I thought -- 3D printing time - but no - out comes the metalworker :D nice i've also noticed that you pulled 2 fuses and thought -- ok he put his DC voltage there but whats the other - and by the time the tonearm did not lower I had forgotten about it again :D learned a lot thx!
Very nice and professional work Even the idea of replacing the door halls with aluminum parts and their lathing was a very bright idea May God always help you. 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 ❤
I don't know how much you charge for your services but whatever it is, it probably isn't enough. Any other shop would never have fabricated new hinges like you did. Outstanding work.
Excellent work! I have the same turntable and was faced with the same hinge issue. I do not have the machine tools/knowledge you have, and ended up putting a "kick stand" on the left side of the lid. I am able to swing the stand as I press the latches to open it up. Not as clean as your repair, but it works. Thanks!
Ooh, broken plastic hinges, there's no coming back from that, how on earth will Mark sort that out? Ah. Yes. He's going to make completely new ones on the mill out of aluminium, because of course he is. I'm a bit of a newbie with electronic / appliance repair, I feel like I'm really benefiting from your considerable experience Mark, so thanks very much for that. I'm mostly working on old turntables and amps, what the kids today call "vintage hi-fi". It's just so rewarding to hear the old gear come to life again after decades of neglect. It's just a hobby so I only manage roughly one piece of equipment a month, I wish I had more time as I have quite a stockpile.....
For some reason, I really like watching electronic repair videos, probably because it’s something I know absolutely nothing about. This particular one was fascinating to watch, so I’ll definitely be subscribing.
Brilliant channel Mark so glad I found it. I’m a mechanical engineer , but electronics fascinated me and what a brilliant channel to learn some of the tricks of the trade in daily diagnosis.
Señor, definitivo usted va más allá de solo poner componentes electrónicos y ya. No, se toma su tiempo para hacer las cosas y bien. Gracias por su trabajo honesto. Le felicito.
I've seen a lot of restoration and repair videos, yours are the top 10. Most people would have given up when the joint of the lid broke. You build the part again, fantastic.
Incredible amount of work put into this interesting turntable Mark really appreciate showing all the steps on getting it back to life 👍and rebuilding the hinge was absolutely next level stuff.
This must go down as one of your best ever fixes; the spindle motor, the blown transistor AND the awesome hinge-arm fabrication! Even just lubricating the little areas that need it. I'm in awe at your attention to detail. Wow.
The amount of enthusiasm, attention to detail and extra mile you go to even manufacture a hinge, boy its mind blowing, your videos are way better than 12voltvids (cranky old bastard). Keep up the good work and please do more videos.
Man! You're who I wanna be when I grow up. I just snagged one of these turntables on Marketplace. It's been sitting in a closet for over a decade. It works as I've seen video after the seller replaced the belt. I will, of course, be taking special care of the hinges. Great video!
OMG, what beautiful work. Thank you for demonstrating how to turn something cheap and "not worth fixing" into a work of art. The shop time to build those hinges (not just one, but both!) would surely exceed the value of the unit, even when new. But who can put a value on a labour of love? Bravo!
Always enjoy your videos. I used to (try) to repair computer printers. In the old days you undid screws. Then it became all clips. Be grateful for the screws.
I don't know how it took TH-cam so long to recommend your videos. I'm really enjoying them! I love to tinker with old audio gear. Watching you give a master class is awesome! And I enjoy your always sunny disposition. Thanks, and please keep it up!
During the pandemic, I decided to revive my old Realistic linear tracking turntable. I took it to a repair shop, and just as one problem was fixed, I would get it home and find another. The motor started making noises, but I found a vintage replacement part on ebay. Got it installed only to find that records played about 1/4 revolution too fast. Ugh! I finally broke down and bought a cheap new player. Good on you to keep the old stuff working.
Love to see your briliant work of all sorts - including molding and mechanical work. Those hinges were brilliant! And your workshop is brilliant - with all sorts of testing equipment and also metalworking tools - and even an old coil winding machine! Your diverse work gives me flashbacs to my earlier carriere when I was running my own workshop, doing independent service work for all sorts of electronic gear. Love it! Keep up the good work! 👋
Hi Mark - I have throughly enjoyed your videos tonight and I look forward to your next one! I am few years older than you and grew up in the 70's in my teens during the tube to transistor change in my father's TV and stereo repair shop! My interest and early education in electronics has repaid me many times over throughout my lifetime both professionally and personally. Thank you for sharing your expertise and wonderful content! Until next time sir!
Having consumed thousands of hours of electronics repair videos, I have to say that the hinge fabrication was the most impressive effort that I have witnessed. Extremely well done. Bravo 👏 👏 👏
It was the chef's kiss.
not only he fixed it, he made it better than it ever was
@@gusti77 yeah now it's a $20,000 turntable.
@@Apocrypha303 Why, did Tom Evans make it?
Those aluminium hinges are a work of art and nobody will ever see them. Good job you showed them to us.
I didn't expect to see you manufacture a hinge, but it sure was fun to watch you make one! Great work!
He didn't make a hinge, although he probably could. He made aluminum replacements for the plastic hinge levers.
Amen!
Yes, they'll outlive the rest of the machine :-)
He wanted to play with his Lathe hahahaha 😊
@@amelophile Mill?
99.9% of repair shops would’ve turned down that repair .It’s so nice to see the speed of diagnostic tests done and repaired before most techs would explain it can’t be fixed.
Mark is absolutely the most impressive repairman ever. I only wish there were more competent people like him around.❤❤❤❤
That was one of the most impressive repairs I have ever witnessed. You not only master electronics, but you are a very skilled mechanical engineer as well. You deserve this channel.
The engineering of those hinges alone probably surpass the cost of the unit five fold! I love your approach to fixing these problems, it truly blows my mind watching a master at work. WOW!!!
You didn't just fix it, you improved it! You're the repair guru.
Electronic troubleshooting and repair AND mechanical fabrication skills. Rare combination in this day and age. Fantastic channel. Keep the restorations coming. 👏👏👏
Hi Iam great fan of your channel. But am somewhat puzzled how you make the repairs financially viable as the amount of time spent on these repair is quite lengthy. Or are the repairs just for your own enjoyment
Those new hinges really proved you’re a professional with an eye for detail. 😊
Never seen a person quite like him. On earth how many people even know how to repair older things like this ?
You're a rare find in the repair community... I have been involved in the HiFi industry since 1953. Lucky is the person that brings their equipment to your bench and persons like yourself.
My grandfather gave me a Montgomery-Wards Airline console radio with 4 6F6 power tubes driving a 15" speaker. It had a film projector dial on a ground glass screen. With lots of different shortwave bands, the film moved up and down as bands changed and rotated with the tuning capacitor under it. Thank you for my life in hifi repair! I'm 77 now. 73 DE W4CSC Charleston, SC
Mark that was by far the most extreme repair of a broken hinge I’ve seen. Amazing!
Is there anything you can’t fix? That repair was amazing. Not only are you and excellent bench tech but also a great machinist. Making those hinges was a real test of patience and engineering. Fantastic channel. Truly the best of TH-cam.
Excellent job. I repaired one of those lids back in 92 and those hinges took 5 weeks to arrive from JVC and cost a fortune. Happy memories and a nice mod to boot.
I jumped on this channel from Techmoan. Wasn't sure. Just clicked on this video first. So glad I did!! This is premium content!!!
By making the hinges, this repair has gone from being merely excellent to truly outstanding.
Quote - "It's the curse of this channel" When it comes to electronics repair we all have that curse hanning over our heads . Great video. Cheers !
45 Jahre als NC/CNC-Dreher/-Fräser/-Schleifer gearbeitet, hat es mir Freude gemacht, Dir bei der Reparatur dieses JVC-Plattenspielers zuzuschauen, zumal du erkennbar viel Spass dabei hattest! Hi-Fi und High-End habe ich seit 50 Jahren als Hobby. Ich hatte und habe Telefunken, LoeweOpta, DUAL, Universum, Grundig, Mitsubishi, Marantz, Kenwood, Sony, LUXMAN, WEGA, Denon, Yamaha und Magnat. Plattenspieler, Verstärker, Tuner, VHS-Recorder, Video 2000-Recorder, Tape-Deck, CD-Spieler, DVD-Spieler, BD-Spieler, Vorverstärkrer, Endstufe, Mono-Blöcke. Lautsprecher waren DUAL, WEGA, Quadral. So, jetzt kennst du meinen Lebenslauf! Ich bin 67, ich hatte selbst nie ein Auto.
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Impossible to stop watching this video! At first I thought, I'll watch just a little bit, but when I saw it, I had watched the whole video!
with the skills that Mark has, I think he definitely deserves more subscribers, everybody please give him a thumbs up.
Knowledge is power
You "just start milling your own aluminum hinges". Seriously talented. You are my new hero!
All of your videos are incredible Mark, but those aluminium brackets were out of this world. If there's a trophy somewhere for the world's best repairman, then I reckon it's got your name engraved on it.
I wish your skills and disposition were available here in the USA. Extraordinary dedication to doing the job right.
Mark is a real technical artist, love it to watch him working.
As someone who has zero clue about electronics, watching a video like this is like watching magic being done. Mesmerising atuff
I was chuffed you repaired the motor and enjoyed the usual electronic diagnosis and repair but my mind was blown when you machined replacement parts for the hinge mechanism. 🤯 wow
Came for the motor, stayed for the hinges. Very impressive! New subscriber.
Mark I am getting quite addicted to your video's, you always go above and beyond, the actual fix! I saw one where you made a switch cover out of metal and now you are making hinges, you are a true one of a kind, sadly there aren't too many repair techs who actually have the skills and patience to work on older gear, or nearly new gear if you are my age!!, one of my favourites was watching you repair that old Ducatti radiogram, I also love seeing you add Bluetooth and extra inputs to older equipment to make them more useable with all the modern tech we have, my 72 Rotel receiver for instance only has tape as an extra input and adding extra inputs would make it live longer with my dac and cd players. Great video's Mark keep up the great work.
I am in awe. Not only do you have the electronic skills, but to manufacture those hinge brackets that just blew me away. It's now better than new and in these days of vinyl resurgence will be very desireable. Great video.
Really loving this channel. Superb diagnosis and repair, and great fun to watch. I have binge watched the entire back catalogue. Hope you soon get the number of subscribers you deserve! And that would be 250k+, at least 😊
Same opinion, indeed :)
I have just done the same. Amazing channel.
Agreed
Linear turntables were all the rage in the early 80's and if they deserved to be.
The needle sits perfectly aligned in the groove, the way it should be. This can only be achieved using linear tracking.
That new hinge is a work of art
awesome work, sir. Love seeing things get fixed rather than tossed.
Impressive, especially the fact that you are a pretty decent machinist too.
JVC was one of the first japanese brands that started pushing cheap plastics. I am old enough to remember Sony devices made solid from stamped and machined metal, with decent electronics and mechanical design.
I can see the enormous pride of restoring even these old cheap JVC clunkers and giving them a new life.
Electronics Technician and Machinist absolutely impressive.
The pride in your work shows! Whoever owns this turntable sure brought it to the right person. Funny to see a mill and precision instrumentation in the same room. Very happy to have found your channel!
One of the most impressive jobs I've ever seen, considering the product has very little value. Your time and effort were amazing for a turntable worth perhaps £100 tops.
I used to own one, dang. It's not good? Lol. I was a kid
Up to the point of starting to fix the lid I thought this was brilliant. Then when you started to machine your own replacement hinges my jaw dropped and I thought this was amazing!
As I always say the craftsmanship at it’s best, nice one Mark, it’s always treat to watch your videos.
Really great Work, but you are the only electrinic Guy thats make's all new. Normaly Guys dident make this. Very good Video and You a great Guy.
Not only do you repair the thing, but you improve on it's design too another great video it's such a treat to watch you at work Mark.
I have to say, I’m impressed. Stumbled upon this channel lately and am since binge watching. Thinking, what will this funny englishman do next. And before a weekend was over you’ve presented an astonishingly equipped lab, rewound transformers and machined aluminium parts for an old turntable. Makes me rethink my own approach to repairs. Very well done!
Absolutely incredible job, you've not only repaired all the faults but you've actually upgraded the hinges too that will never break again, i love old school tech👌
Mark has , as always , reached a level of excellence that 99% of the population could never achieve - and I have only understood about 1% of what he is doing ! Fantastic , as always
As you produced those hinges.....wow! like a proof. Another 50 years for that turntable :)
my post-college roommate had this turntable, and guests used to marvel at the automatic process. It was beyond state-of-the-art for that time just before CDs became the standard. I must have played Linda Ronstadt's "What's New" album 100 times on that machine. Yours is now probably about the only one still in operation 40 years later!
Another great repair job Mark. Thanks for sharing your work with us, your style is so unique and fun to watch. ❤
Wow Mark. What an incredible range of skills you have from micro electronics to machining. Just brilliant. Binge watching all your shows.
Mesmerizing. More fun to watch than a Barbie movie. The engineers that designed this turntable would be impressed. Darn plastic parts. Excellent video and audio work. 👍👍
Wow, impressive hinge making Mark
Outstanding bit of subtractive manufacturing.
Great diagnosis techniques! So many different skills too. Great job, Mark a pleasure to watch.
Exactly my kind of guy, you are the perfect example of what sustainability should be about, a great virtue in my opinion. Such a shame to see how much stuff gets tossed at the skips which could easily be good for years with some TLC. You deserve way more likes, subscribed!
Amazing watching you fix those hinges and make them way stronger than the originals!
Those hinges will outlast the whole rest of the unit.
First class repair Mark. Your hinge repair was a bonus I wasn’t expecting. 💯👍
Excellent repair job , Mark , you have a lot of patience with your repairs and you are very thorough with every repair .Well done and keep the camera rolling , love the videos .
Ability to think and utilize solutions from information that cannot be found in any books, a keen eye, that willingness to go further and possibly fabricating a better part than OEM...just pure genius, Mark.
Wow, many people could fix the electronics but few could also sort the hinges, that's superb work!
Hello Mark, a wonderful work!
Just a few notes: I would also check and adjust the platter speeds, these are often off the value in those old belt driven turntables. As we see the turntable in question reads just the motor revolutions, not the revolutions of the platter, which are affected by the condition of the belt... which changes over time. The aftermarket belts too, these often happen to be an imprecise lookalikes, so the re-set of the motor speed has to be performed after the belt swap. Here you have to read the platter revolutions either with a stroboscopic disc and a strobe, or via a smartphone positioned on a cushion over the spindle and a measuring app for turntables, which is also precise enough, mostly, depending on the smartphone used 😅(Droids have better apps available and tend to measure more precisely than those Apples).
Then I would also check and set the stylus pressure, for the similar reasons.
Last but not least, I would give it a new stylus. Should it be an aftermarket stylus instead of the original, I would set the stylus pressure to the usual safe value of 1.75 - 2.0g, which most of the basic aftermarket styli are made to.
All the best from Marko.
Hi Mark.
I follow a lot of people who travel with electronics on TH-cam.
You are my favorite.
Super professional and with a radiance and a mood that makes you completely happy just to hear and watch. We are very impressed that you can also do all metal processing.
It could be great if you also made TV, Video and Broadcast Video.
Hope you continue to post many more videos
What a fantastic job, not only fixed but upgraded the hinges from a piece of metal. Mark you are a genius.
The art is being lost, We need more of these blokes! You are killer dood!
when I saw the hinge I thought -- 3D printing time - but no - out comes the metalworker :D nice
i've also noticed that you pulled 2 fuses and thought -- ok he put his DC voltage there but whats the other - and by the time the tonearm did not lower I had forgotten about it again :D
learned a lot thx!
This channel is a bit of a hidden gem. Happy to have found it (as someone who has always struggled with electronics).
Very nice and professional work
Even the idea of replacing the door halls with aluminum parts and their lathing was a very bright idea
May God always help you. 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 ❤
I am truly humbled. Really enjoying this channel, seems like sound bloke.
I don't know how much you charge for your services but whatever it is, it probably isn't enough. Any other shop would never have fabricated new hinges like you did. Outstanding work.
Excellent work! I have the same turntable and was faced with the same hinge issue. I do not have the machine tools/knowledge you have, and ended up putting a "kick stand" on the left side of the lid. I am able to swing the stand as I press the latches to open it up. Not as clean as your repair, but it works. Thanks!
Ooh, broken plastic hinges, there's no coming back from that, how on earth will Mark sort that out? Ah. Yes. He's going to make completely new ones on the mill out of aluminium, because of course he is.
I'm a bit of a newbie with electronic / appliance repair, I feel like I'm really benefiting from your considerable experience Mark, so thanks very much for that. I'm mostly working on old turntables and amps, what the kids today call "vintage hi-fi". It's just so rewarding to hear the old gear come to life again after decades of neglect. It's just a hobby so I only manage roughly one piece of equipment a month, I wish I had more time as I have quite a stockpile.....
I can hear the repair shop owner screaming when the drill press and milling machine is delivered...
For some reason, I really like watching electronic repair videos, probably because it’s something I know absolutely nothing about. This particular one was fascinating to watch, so I’ll definitely be subscribing.
Outstanding work, Mark. so you're not just a Sparks but also a multi talented guy. Well done. I love your workshop
Brilliant channel Mark so glad I found it.
I’m a mechanical engineer , but electronics fascinated me and what a brilliant channel to learn some of the tricks of the trade in daily diagnosis.
Good work repairing the electronics, making that hinge was genius.
You, Sir, are one impressive multi skilled engineer. Top job.
Señor, definitivo usted va más allá de solo poner componentes electrónicos y ya. No, se toma su tiempo para hacer las cosas y bien. Gracias por su trabajo honesto. Le felicito.
I've seen a lot of restoration and repair videos, yours are the top 10.
Most people would have given up when the joint of the lid broke. You build the part again, fantastic.
I am amazed that you went to the effort of making completely new hinges! I doubt any other repair shop would have done that! Superb work.
Incredible amount of work put into this interesting turntable Mark really appreciate showing all the steps on getting it back to life 👍and rebuilding the hinge was absolutely next level stuff.
This must go down as one of your best ever fixes; the spindle motor, the blown transistor AND the awesome hinge-arm fabrication! Even just lubricating the little areas that need it. I'm in awe at your attention to detail. Wow.
The amount of enthusiasm, attention to detail and extra mile you go to even manufacture a hinge, boy its mind blowing, your videos are way better than 12voltvids (cranky old bastard). Keep up the good work and please do more videos.
Your level of craftsmanship is incredible . Coupled with your electronics experience... amazing.
Very, very good, nice work! You're a master. 👍
Man! You're who I wanna be when I grow up. I just snagged one of these turntables on Marketplace. It's been sitting in a closet for over a decade. It works as I've seen video after the seller replaced the belt. I will, of course, be taking special care of the hinges. Great video!
As a retired TV Tech with 30 years experience under my belt, I think your work is awesome and I have subscribed 🎉
The hinge work was brilliant , well done
Great work mark, well done! That was absolutely amazing. You truly are an artisan of your craft.
OMG, what beautiful work. Thank you for demonstrating how to turn something cheap and "not worth fixing" into a work of art. The shop time to build those hinges (not just one, but both!) would surely exceed the value of the unit, even when new. But who can put a value on a labour of love? Bravo!
Always enjoy your videos. I used to (try) to repair computer printers. In the old days you undid screws. Then it became all clips. Be grateful for the screws.
You Wizard!! You keep on surprising me. You are a true craftsman. i just cant stop seeing your solutions and everlasting enthusiasm.
👍🤝
I don't know how it took TH-cam so long to recommend your videos. I'm really enjoying them! I love to tinker with old audio gear. Watching you give a master class is awesome! And I enjoy your always sunny disposition. Thanks, and please keep it up!
During the pandemic, I decided to revive my old Realistic linear tracking turntable. I took it to a repair shop, and just as one problem was fixed, I would get it home and find another. The motor started making noises, but I found a vintage replacement part on ebay. Got it installed only to find that records played about 1/4 revolution too fast. Ugh! I finally broke down and bought a cheap new player. Good on you to keep the old stuff working.
Love to see your briliant work of all sorts - including molding and mechanical work. Those hinges were brilliant! And your workshop is brilliant - with all sorts of testing equipment and also metalworking tools - and even an old coil winding machine!
Your diverse work gives me flashbacs to my earlier carriere when I was running my own workshop, doing independent service work for all sorts of electronic gear. Love it! Keep up the good work! 👋
extraordinar , urmăresc cu curozitate ,ca un copil, fiecare realizare a dumneavoastră !
Just can't get enough of these master repair and refurbish videos. Superb skill level!
Hi Mark - I have throughly enjoyed your videos tonight and I look forward to your next one! I am few years older than you and grew up in the 70's in my teens during the tube to transistor change in my father's TV and stereo repair shop! My interest and early education in electronics has repaid me many times over throughout my lifetime both professionally and personally. Thank you for sharing your expertise and wonderful content! Until next time sir!
really nice milling job Mark... you're a true jack of all trades
Great craftmanship......thoroughly entertaining fault finding and fixes 👍
Wonderful!!! You have all the tools you need to customize broken parts. Amazing.
Making them hinge mounts was absolute genius work!😮😮😮