1982 Linear Tracking Turntable Repair (JVC L-E600)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ม.ค. 2023
- Mark repairs a dead 1982 vintage JVC record player. Typical of any dead vintage gear, there are multiple problems - including some that Mark causes himself. Idiot... But he redeems himself by making replacement hinges for the floppy lid!
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.
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?
Those aluminium hinges are a work of art and nobody will ever see them. Good job you showed them to us.
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
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!!!
Never seen a person quite like him. On earth how many people even know how to repair older things like this ?
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.
Mark is a real technical artist, love it to watch him working.
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
First class repair Mark. Your hinge repair was a bonus I wasn’t expecting. 💯👍
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.
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
Those new hinges really proved you’re a professional with an eye for detail. 😊
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.
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 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.
Came for the motor, stayed for the hinges. Very impressive! New subscriber.
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!
I jumped on this channel from Techmoan. Wasn't sure. Just clicked on this video first. So glad I did!! This is premium content!!!
with the skills that Mark has, I think he definitely deserves more subscribers, everybody please give him a thumbs up.
Knowledge is power
As I always say the craftsmanship at it’s best, nice one Mark, it’s always treat to watch your videos.
That new hinge is a work of art
Mark that was by far the most extreme repair of a broken hinge I’ve seen. 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👌
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
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!
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. 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 ❤
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!
Electronics Technician and Machinist absolutely impressive.
awesome work, sir. Love seeing things get fixed rather than tossed.
I wish your skills and disposition were available here in the USA. Extraordinary dedication to doing the job right.
Wow, impressive hinge making Mark
Imagine the engineer who designed this lid, watching Mark. "Dammit! We should have done that!"
Wow Mark. What an incredible range of skills you have from micro electronics to machining. Just brilliant. Binge watching all your shows.
You "just start milling your own aluminum hinges". Seriously talented. You are my new hero!
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!
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!
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!
Man, you are the whole package.
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
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, many people could fix the electronics but few could also sort the hinges, that's superb work!
Really enjoing cherry picking my way through this channel - Mark is a great personality with such skills.
Outstanding work, Mark. so you're not just a Sparks but also a multi talented guy. Well done. I love your workshop
This channel is a bit of a hidden gem. Happy to have found it (as someone who has always struggled with electronics).
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...
The art is being lost, We need more of these blokes! You are killer dood!
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.
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.
Just reached the end. Standing ovation, round of applause.
I thought I watched all of your videos… I somehow missed this one. Nice job on the hinges 👍👍
I knew he was next level , but then the hinge I was like OMG !
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.
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.
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.
Your level of craftsmanship is incredible . Coupled with your electronics experience... amazing.
I've picked sides now. I'm a fan of this channel and an enemy of screws.
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.
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.
Good job Mark. It excites me to see you repair electronic devices with the ease that you do. I never saw an engine repaired until today. Greetings from Barcelona
Love the way you just casually set aside the old soldering iron and oscilloscope and machine a hinge out of aluminium 😄
Good work repairing the electronics, making that hinge was genius.
I think you are amazing! Just wish that the build quality of all our stuff was amazing as well.
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!
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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As you produced those hinges.....wow! like a proof. Another 50 years for that turntable :)
Great job mark nice to see these older hi fi units getting repaired the hinge makeing was a master stroke!
I am addicted to this channel 😢
Great craftmanship......thoroughly entertaining fault finding and fixes 👍
The hinge work was brilliant , well done
really nice milling job Mark... you're a true jack of all trades
I could watch these all day long..
You are much more than a brilliant electronics technician!!! You also have a particularly brilliant ability to improvise!!! Your lab is equipped with the best equipment, and beautifully organized!!! I really enjoy watching your great videos!!! Thank you so much!!!
You didn't fix those hinges, you gave them superpowers!
What a fantastic job, not only fixed but upgraded the hinges from a piece of metal. Mark you are a genius.
Magnificent job on the hinges!
Your machining was just delightful. You could say the whole project "hinged" around that. :P
You are an artist, sir. Very satisfying to watch.
I worked on all this stuff for Highland Applicance in MI. Theyd ship my friend a semi full of broken stereos, video players, tvs etc. at a time. Fun days.
Great fun watching! Machining was quite unexpected. Excellent work.
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.
Great job and dedication to repair this player 👏
Stunning workmanship.
It could have easily ended up in the tip, but now it's better than new. Very rewarding.
amazing ... the last of the true engineers big respect to you Mark
It is so enjoyable seeing you resolve issues. Making the Hinge was the icing on the cake. Brilliant.
That was amazing. You really are the most incredible engineer.
The way of the future Mark, fix things , not discard them ... when its possible . nice job .
Insane repair! Congractulations Mark.
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!
great machining skills - impressed - love watching your repairs
Speechless... New fav repair guy. Thanks, Mark!
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!
Just can't get enough of these master repair and refurbish videos. Superb skill level!
Wow… such a delight to watch… Thank you so much for the beautiful shots, the narration and sheer craftsmanship.
Fantastic work mate! Above and beyond!
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.
Very enjoyable Mark, I like the way you fixed the hinges to, it was more of a restoration, fair few faults.