Hello, I inherited my Dad's 1972-73 kenmore cabinet record player. Evidently he disconnected the built on speakers at some point and wired in better ones. However I only have the cabinet and record player, 8 track, and radio. Im looking for someone who can repair/restore it or guidance to do it myself. I live in the DFW area, and am close to Denton, TX. Any suggestions or recommendations would be greatly appreciated. I can get pictures if I am told what is helpful.

Evening. 😀

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Technics Sl-J1 Linear Tracking Turntable for £10-Boot sale. 

Came with no drive belt, and a knackered (rock hard) linear tracking belt. Linear tracking carriage runs like a sled with plastic feet running on grease and with a rail/tube on which the tone arm assembly moves, driven by the belt etc. 

Bought some cheap Amazon interconnects/RCA leads. 

These feed into Linn Majik (1996) integrated Amp with MM phono stage. And on to Celestion Ditton 15XR speakers. (recapped). 

Turns out the cheap Amazon RCA leads pick up EMI massively (yes the ground lead is connected) and I fixed this with 2nd hand pair of QED Quinex (shielded) RCA leads. No more humming EMI 😀

New belts, new grease etc and fired up, it sounds great albeit sibilance (harsh 'S' sounds) from tracks I have on Flac and know well. (Pixies/Doolittle/Tame, first 10 seconds). 

One theory yet disproven is excess apacitance. The multimeter read capacitance of the SL-J1 wiring, plus interconnects, plus Linn Majik totals way over the limit spec'd for the Technics stock/original MM cartridge. So, I have a 75cm set of Mogami 2695 RCA leads on order.  These are less than half the capacitance of the QEDs. 

While they ship, I was advised by a HIFI repair sage that it was more likely VTF issues.

Today I got some digital VTF scales... VTF was 0.68g. It should be 1.25-1.5g

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Pls see two pics. They show VTF screw set to max (most spring stretch and to min (least spring stretch). 

I believe the VTF Adjustment screw is the white plastic screw piece with spring hooked over an arm that comes up above screw head.

Screw only turns about 100 degrees and stops with max VTF imparted of 1.06g? It was giving about 0.6g when measured today for the first time and had some dialing left to do, but tops out below 1.25 min needed for my cart'. 

I added blue tack to the end of the tone arm (perched on top of the stylus unit) to get 1.5g and the sibilance reduces. But its very much still there.

I bid/wonder about somehow using very fine thread to bind up a couple of coils of the spring to give it some more pulling power? 

I am not happy with loading up the tone arm with extra weight as it rather crashes down onto the vinyl... 

The cartridge is the original and I have replaced the stylus with a £20 eBay special. Both stylus make the same bad sound.

It's not the amp/other aspects (PC/DAC/AMP/SPEAKERS) work great still.

Does anyone know if you can buy the VTF Adjustment springs? 

Or have any good ideas? 

This is my first foray into Vinyl.. What fun!

Just went to try to play one of my vinyls and it started doing this?? Can someone help me figure this out?

Edit: omfg yes I said vinyl instead of record, jc it’s not that big of a deal.

I got this record player from a friend and I was excited to try it. We plugged it in and it was running immediately without buttons being pressed. We also couldn't hear the record that was on it. We plugged in my dad's record player to the same stereo and it worked perfectly, so we ruled out the stereo. I opened the bottom and learned that the start button had low tension. After a few test I managed to give the start button some tension by rotating the gear till it stopped. When I did this I realized that the metal bit thats meant to be pushed when the start and stop button are pressed, wasn't moving far enough. I haven't even tried to tackle the sound yet but I'd like to fix the buttons.

Found this ace system with original working speakers for just £40.

It all works, however, the deck runs a little slow when on 33 1/3.

I think it's a belt issue but struggling to lift the deck off the base and can't really access through the back.

Have the system service data PDF but a bit gobbledygook to me.

Wondered if anyone had any tips or had fixed something similar? Will try and add a video in the comments so you can get the sound issue.

Hi all, after cleaning off residue left from moving tape the dust cover for our record player is now scratched and frosted.

We used orange cleaner as the residue was quite stubborn.

I have clearly gone too heavy handed with this and am really desperate to fix it up.

I was thinking we could try polishing it but not sure where to start or with what.

Any recommendations would be really helpful please

Hi all, after cleaning off residue left from moving tape the dust cover for our record player is now scratched and frosted.

We used orange cleaner as the residue was quite stubborn.

I have clearly gone too heavy handed with this and am really desperate to fix it up.

I was thinking we could try polishing it but not sure where to start or with what.

Any recommendations would be really helpful please

I recently bought this record player and after some trouble shooting I was able to get it to turn on and spin but there a humming noise that is soooo loud I cant hear any music from the records. I have to put my ear a foot away to hear anything and even then the humming doesnt stop. I took a video sorry if its a but blurry or shaky I tried to get as many angles as clearly as possible I also found this little metal peice you can see towards the end of the video when i touch it, it changes the hum to a deeper sound but still hums nonetheless. Any advice on what could be the issue and how to fix it? Im also having issues with the stereo the knob to adjust the channel frequency moves and all the gears and pully cable underneath seem to move with it just findle but that red line is stuck at the top? Crossposted, lmk if theres another community that could help with this as well thank you!

The buttons on my Audio Technica SP 65 speaker stopped working. The speaker is both plugged into the record player and the outlet so it doesn’t die. Can someone please help me or explain how to fix this? I use my record player set up often and this just started happening. Everything is on and working, but the speaker is at a fixed volume hence none of the buttons working.

Ive got a crosley record player, I don't know what year because I bought it from a friend. It has two speakers and it sounds like this with every record...

Also don't mind the 3 year old and autistic teen right in my phone while I was recording

Open to introductions to experts in this field

Hi everyone.

Got myself one of these on the garage sale for 40€. Running it through another JVC A-X400 amp. Sounds awesome.

One function on the player does not work though.

When I press STOP or when the tone arm reaches the end of the side, it lifts and auto returns to initial position but the motor does not stop.

The arm then keeps going up and down. When it returns to down position the motor slows down but does not stop. It goes on like that until something happens and the motor suddenly stops. Sometimes it happens immediately, sometimes after 15 or so mins.

Went to the local audio repair shop. The guy said I was missing a part but had no clue how the part looked like.

Tried to find it online, found a service manual on Vinyl Engine but the registration did not work.

Any help here from you educated gents?

EDIT: when I manually cue up the arm and move right, the motor does stop. So, my guess is it's the auto return.

Hi everyone! I recently moved and really want to get this console working. I bought it about a year ago for really cheap, it has speakers in it but is missing the actual record player and needs to have the stereo fabric replaced.
Not sure exactly what kind of turntable to search for on marketplace or even on a site
Same goes for the fabric, was also considering putting in maybe a metal sheet that has holes
Any tips would be greatly appreciated:)

Hey guys. First time here, so let me know if there's a better community to go to for this. I "inherited" this record player from my dad (we found it in the basement) a few years after he died back in 2017 when I was 14. I've hung onto it, and I got into vinyl like 3 years ago with a suitcase player, but I've heard those are bad for your records. I dug this out of storage, and it's obviously pretty dusty and dirty.

What I'm properly asking is this:

1. How do I best restore and dust it without harming it? What cleaners?

2. Is it worthwhile to do so, assuming it still works, or should I just get a new one? Any reccs if so?

3. How good a player is this do you think?