I wish my turntable worked :((( it never seem to keep its speed and aside from a new belt i dont really know how to fix them
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you could try to put the belt in boiling water for 5 min and then in cold water for another 5 min. I havenât tried this myself but you find this tip in a lot of turntable threads.
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Not sure if this exactly the place to put this, but one day, I will fix my parents victrola that I broke when I was a kid XD
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i fitted a brand new belt a while ago and it didnt help things unfortunatelyâŚmost of my hifi stuff was just belts that had turned to goo so i had a day repairing those but the turn table is the only thing it didnt fixâŚwell it got it turning but the speed irregularity makes it really rubbish to use
I invested in a direct drive Dual 626 turntable some 40 years ago, and it is still running like new.
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I inherited a Dual 1229 years ago. It had spent several decades in storage and the lubricant had turned to glue, but I serviced it and ran it for a year or so till it ran into several issues with the power switch, which I have been unable to repair so far.
Old pic, but its there on the bottom right.
I have another Dual, a 510 belt driven one, which also needed repair. I think I got it working, so I will soon be moving it from the repair bench into service again.
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maybe some light oil to motor and spindle shaft ?
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I bought a SL-1210 MKII in the early 80ies and got laughed at because itâs all manual and costed almost 1000 deutschmark. Still works like the first day, my best investment ever.
Recently I bought 5 Thorens Turntables from an estate, various models including the 100year anniversary edition (Phantasie) which is completely in translucent acrylic.
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This looks SO COZY!!!
The illuminated meters are great!
When I was a kid, my father recorded the lord of the rings from a radio show to big tapes, because they could record for longer than MC and then whenever I was sick staying at home, I would listen to the recording. Thatâs my first association with big tapes and always a nice memory 
the tape machine is still somewhere, if I ever have more space I might bring it over and use it again.
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Possibly, once i get the speed fine it will sorta hold it untill i power it off again, i tried recapping it. cleared up some of the noise but no speed improvements.
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i broke my dadâs sl 1200 as a kid. couple years ago, got sum money and bought a new cartridge for it. paid for my crimes.
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imo i just think itâs personal preference. iâm not an audophile so iâm not looking for âthe perfect audio formatâ or âhardcore fidelity soundâ, so i wouldnât call it a better format. i like big artwork, booklets n whatnot. and i feel like the process of going thru an album is diff than jumping thru a playlist. my dad gave me the dj bug so thatâs why iâm into music stuff now.
noted, vinyl isnât eco-friendly, but neither is streaming or cds (idk about tapes). if shall i die, pvc poisoning will be it lol.
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Does anybody here have any experience with cutting vinyl?
I got a spontaneous urge to start making dubplates, then went down a YouTube rabbit hole on how itâs all done⌠last time I had this feeling, I ended up with an oversized modular synthesizer and a bloody great hole in my pocket.
But surely, making a vinyl lathe is an intelligent use of my time and money? Right, guys? Guys?
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have them too and almost all others of Yazoo as well but was never into Erasure
Dubplates are only worth the money if youâre a DJ in the pre-digital turntablist era or if youâre Hainbach 
. But, yes, I do have experience:
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Still digging on this, found a guys great build page: Project - idea #3
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The idea of using CDs as test media is inspired.
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I am only just resurfacing from the rabbit hole your link took me.
Keep us posted.
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