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I decided to give the RCA combo a rest, and take another look at the TT on this combo. It would not cycle off when I got it, so at the end of the record it would just stay on. I decided to pull it and go thru it completly. The platter bearing had a bunch of old hard grease, I cleaned it out, put in some fresh, and lubed all the moving parts, lithium grease on the sliders and thin gun oil on the rest of it. I loaded up the motor bushing felts with some fresh bearing oil. After watching the mechanisim operate several cycles I finally saw the problem. I little metal arm that attaches to the switch was bent up a tiny bit, just enough for the main caridge to miss. I was able to get some needle nose plys in there an nudge it down a mm or two. I swear these things were designed by some demented genius, I dont see how you could fix them if you could not see them in operation AND they rely on gravity to set all the multitude of levers in the right position so they have to level (you cant flip them up on the side and manually spin it.
anyway this one is fully functional now, was spinning some old records, got the sound track from "the graduate" on it, some really great tunes.
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