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Unique record count system for keeping track of your stylus wear. Patented Magnetic antiskate, tonearm and motor design. Dual 33/45 speed Comes with a single play spindle and a long spindle for 33 stacking. Pickering XV-15 cartridge with D400 stylus w/brush. When stopping, it stopped much more suddenly instead of rotating for a while.Īlso, I examined the actual platter while it spins and it does seem to be out of round, as once area dips more than the other with visual inspection.Made in Great Britain. I replaced the idler wheel this morning and actually made the problem worse - the platter was having a lot of trouble spinning and took a while to reach speed. I did check out Klaus' guide to cleaning/relubing so think I'll do that today. It was serviced back in May, but am unsure about if the motor was cleaned/lubed. Yep, has been playing very well since I was lucky enough to find it on Craigslist earlier this year. Just to check, it's been playing fine for however long you've owned it, and the whir has just become a problem in the last week? Ravelax is right, it's really easy to do and pretty satisfying if you're at all mechanically inclined. Had the drum been struck instead, it would probably have been bent.ĭid you include the motor in the cleaning/relubing? When I got it, my 1214 had a motor that would only hum when power was applied once I took it apart and relubed it it was completely stable and silent. Looked fine, but it had a wobble which, surprisingly, did not affect the evenness of the sound. I have seen a 1229 platter which was damaged with no visible marks. This is a point which I've made before, and I've run into resistance with the notion when it is just nothing but good practice to service, clean, and realign them if necessary. (It likely won't happen with your idler bracket if it's perfectly new or well serviced). Retracting the idler by placing the speed selector between two speeds momentarily will guard against this potential damage. The bracket can become a bit bent, and I've seen it. Someone not knowing about this can seat the platter carelessly or just drop it in place, and catch a significant part of the rubber idler, pulling the entire assembly down to a point where it resembles a badly aligned front tire on a nice car. Older units develop stiff and sticky idler brackets which do not retract fully as they would when they were new. It should not be tilted down, as they sometimes are. Another thing to check is whether the idler wheel is horizontal as you sight it at rim-to-eye level, comparing with the deck. As good practice, retract the idler using the speed shift lever, each time you lift or re-seat the platter so that the rim does not catch the rim of the idler. This is particularly important with extra heavy platters. After, wipe the alloy dust from it using a clean cloth and isopropyl alcohol and then absolutely do not touch it before remounting it on the unit again, to avoid finger oil. You'd probably feel an out of round rim when doing so, as well. One of the small aspects of servicing is to not only dress the idler as Hugh describes (great to use a drill press for this if you have one), but to lightly sand the inside platter drum with 220 grit (or 300, something like that) evenly all the way around. This means servicing the motor, reading similar threads about operational issues for models land others close-in to the 1225 period. It is important to note that if a 1225 has never been serviced as per the guides here at the forum, it needs to be. How does the platter spin when not engaged with the idler? The issue is likely going to be something which has been mentioned in this thread. However, it might also be a very dirty platter bearing which meets resistance during a turn. But, I'm pretty sure if true that it would be visible. I agree with Hugh, and it suspiciously "sounds" like an out of round platter rim.