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Originally Posted by zeno
Depending on how bad it is you can give the idler a
cleaning with lighter fluid. They also used to make
some commercial cleaners. Dont forget the motor
shaft & the inside rim of the platter & be sure the platter
spins freely when not engaged.
73 Zeno  |
The platter spins quite freely, in fact I spun it with my hand and clocked it out at about three and a half minutes before it finally stopped spinning (which is about how long my old Dual turntable took to spin down, and it has a heavier cast aluminum platter as opposed to a standard aluminum platter like the Zenith has.) Anyways I think it just needs a new idler tire because the one that's on there right now is as hard as a rock so to speak, it feels like plastic in some ways consistency wise, whereas my old Motorola which has the same 1297 changer but from the early 1960s works fine (it actually has a different type of idler tire in it all together.)