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5th May 2022, 7:42 am | #1 |
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Open this up? ALBA hifi
I can’t seem to figure out how to lift up the turntable. I’d like to have a look underneath and give it a little clean. It doesn’t have any C-clip. There’s an arrow pointing and it looks a bit different there. But I can’t figure it out. Has anyone got an idea? Thanks so much.
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5th May 2022, 9:13 am | #2 |
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Re: Open this up? ALBA hifi
Is this a modern player with USB or Blue Tooth?
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5th May 2022, 10:28 am | #3 |
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Re: Open this up? ALBA hifi
Most of the modern ones I’ve had just lift off, but they had metal turntable platters (Technics SL-5). Have you had a look from underneath?
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5th May 2022, 11:40 am | #4 |
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Re: Open this up? ALBA hifi
I seem to remember that there IS a c-clip, but you have to remove the aluminium disc in the centre to get at it. Be careful though, those discs are usually glued down and are easily distorted.
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5th May 2022, 3:34 pm | #5 |
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Re: Open this up? ALBA hifi
I've seen a few where the turntable spindle goes right through and the C clip is underneath but you have to remove the whole deck to get at it.
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5th May 2022, 4:02 pm | #6 |
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Re: Open this up? ALBA hifi
If it is one of the ones with a USB interface, the target market was people with a record collection in the attic who had a whim to start listening to their old LPs and singles again. They were expected to use the turntable to play through everything once and keep the resulting MP3 file on their computer for future listening.
Consequently, the turntables were not built to take a lot of use, nor were they built for high quality sound. So there may not really be anything that's gone wrong with it, they were made to minimal quality standards and not for a long life. As it's a fairly recent product, I think it's unlikely that it's something you have any emotional connection with, so you have an alternate escape route... There are many many far superior turntables from the 1980s on the go or gathering dust in attics. Some of them have famous names, famous reputations and silly high prices. But the many of the ones without the reputations are still rather good (sometimes just as good) and are cheap, sometimes dirt cheap. The same thing goes with amplifiers and speakers. If you know what's worth having, what's rubbish, and what's overpriced, you can put youself together a very good record playing setup for pocket money. Some decent items change hands on this forum as freebies. This is a good forum, for impartial advice on what's worth having and what's best avoided. Too much of the hifi world on the internet is cultist, so this is a calm oasis where good engineering and repeatable science are OK. There is the old joke that a man asking for directions for how to get to some place was told "Sure, If I was wanting to go there, I wouldn't start from here..." Similarly, if you want a turntable to give a good sound and to last well, that one isn't a good starting point. David
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5th May 2022, 6:59 pm | #7 |
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Re: Open this up? ALBA hifi
The turntable must be easily removable in order to replace the belt.
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5th May 2022, 7:14 pm | #8 |
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Re: Open this up? ALBA hifi
I wouldn't be so sure of that these days! So much stuff has built in obsolescence.
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8th May 2022, 3:21 pm | #9 |
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Re: Open this up? ALBA hifi
I repaired a similar Sony cheap plastic deck. The platter was a taper fit but stuck firmly on and the 'bearing' was seized solid. I undid a nut underneath that released the whole assembly and then had access to use penetrating oil and some brute force.
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9th May 2022, 1:02 am | #10 |
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Re: Open this up? ALBA hifi
Yes, I did one a while back and it was fixed from below. What I remember was that the bearing washers have two different diameter holes in them and MUST be assembled and 'located' in the correct order. It turned out that someone had been there before to probably replace the belt and got them in the wrong order, which was causing the platter to vibrate as it rotated in a horrendous manner!
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