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fixerup said:
The bearings on my busybee bandsaw B2442 horizontal and vertical were completely seized up.
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Very timely post. Just bought a boat trailer tonight for my son. It will need a new bearing on one side. It feels a wee bit gritty. Given that it's a boat trailer that gets shoved into water fairly often, it could be dirt or corrosion, or it may need a new set of bearings. I think it's worth a try cleaning them first.
 
Susquatch@ Do your son a favor and install some bearing buddies if he doesn't have them. They work really well at keeping the grit and water out. The spring-loaded grease reservoir prevents anything from coming in.
 
fixerup said:
Susquatch@ Do your son a favor and install some bearing buddies if he doesn't have them. They work really well at keeping the grit and water out. The spring-loaded grease reservoir prevents anything from coming in.
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Yes, I forgot about that. I did that myself on a boat trailer I had years ago. It worked REALLY WELL.

My current boat trailer has oil bath bearings. They are the cats ass! No problems 25 years later, three boats, and thousands of launches. But that isn't happening on this trailer.

I'll get a pair of bearing buddies for him.

Thank you!
 
Don't know if this belongs here.

I purchased 4 turntables for $30 about a month ago. They were all sitting outside on a concrete patio, covered in dust, kinda piled on top of each other.

This is the Pioneer before I started the servicing/cleaning.

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Took it apart. Replaced all the electrolytic capacitors, replaced the neon bulb and series resistor for the strobe, and performed general cleaning, greasing, etc.

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Finally, followed the user and service manuals to set it up. Seems like a decent turntable. It definitely plays a record and all the features work. Just missing one nut for the mounting cartridge hardware. On order.

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Has an interesting strobe light feature (neon bulb) that is used to set the speed. When the platter is spinning if you see the dotted line through the viewing window moving left or right you can adjust the speed with a thumb wheel. Once the line is perfectly still the speed should be correct.

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Now, just have to figure out how to mount it inside my truck...for when I am driving😉

Of the remaining turntables I have a Marantz and Nikko to look at. The 4th was garbage.
 
I don't how the bulbs work in a CB but the top one has a mind of its own. So it's a crapshoot if you're on channel 14 or 19. All you have to do is click to 20 and back it's just funny
 
Chicken lights said:
I don't how the bulbs work in a CB but the top one has a mind of its own. So it's a crapshoot if you're on channel 14 or 19. All you have to do is click to 20 and back it's just funny
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Depending on how old it is it could be a loose or dirty/corroded connection.

I was working on a guitar amp and everything seemed to work fine until you touched it, moved it, tapped it... The sound/signal would cut in and out. Checked all the solder connections, multiple times, and wiggled components. Nothing. Finally found that the problem was a solder connection that looked good but apparently wasn't. Hours and hours...
 
Elektrishun said:
Depending on how old it is it could be a loose or dirty/corroded connection.

I was working on a guitar amp and everything seemed to work fine until you touched it, moved it, tapped it... The sound/signal would cut in and out. Checked all the solder connections, multiple times, and wiggled components. Nothing. Finally found that the problem was a solder connection that looked good but apparently wasn't. Hours and hours...
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Which is why I just live with it. Unless I have to go to a yard frequency like 3 or 10, it usually stays on 19.

I have two Dale Earnhardt edition Cobra's I'm assuming they aren't last years models 😀IMG_6381.jpeg
Edit- found one on eBay
 
Elektrishun said:
Finally, followed the user and service manuals to set it up. Seems like a decent turntable. It definitely plays a record and all the features work.
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That sure looks a lot like a turntable my buddy bought new in 1981! (What's a young man to do with his first tax refund?!?)

Maybe it is "working" but...what about the cartridge and needle? There has probably been a lot of miles go under the existing setup. Time for a replacement? Or upgrade? 😉


Honestly it is a wonder than anyone ever liked lp records. Using the RIAA curve to deliberately distort the sound to compensate the innate limitations of the media? Plus rumble, flutter, wow and all other potential playback problems. And what drove me crazy when we moved here—AM radio signals. There are AM transmission antennas about 4 km from our house and the signal would somehow 'bleed' in via the turntable. Eventually I figured out that if I turned the volume away up, I could hear AM 680 (or 640, I forget now) via the phono input! And it continually bled into any music that I actually wanted to play. Argh. Never solved that.

CD's had a lot of advantages, IMHO.

Craig
 
trlvn said:
That sure looks a lot like a turntable my buddy bought new in 1981! (What's a young man to do with his first tax refund?!?)

Maybe it is "working" but...what about the cartridge and needle? There has probably been a lot of miles go under the existing setup. Time for a replacement? Or upgrade? 😉


Oh definitely, more to do before it's fully ready for the good vinyl. The record I trialed it on is a duplicate of lesser quality. A sacrificial record to deal with all my blunders.
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Elektrishun said:
Don't know if this belongs here.

I purchased 4 turntables for $30 about a month ago. They were all sitting outside on a concrete patio, covered in dust, kinda piled on top of each other.

This is the Pioneer before I started the servicing/cleaning.

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Took it apart. Replaced all the electrolytic capacitors, replaced the neon bulb and series resistor for the strobe, and performed general cleaning, greasing, etc.

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Finally, followed the user and service manuals to set it up. Seems like a decent turntable. It definitely plays a record and all the features work. Just missing one nut for the mounting cartridge hardware. On order.

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Has an interesting strobe light feature (neon bulb) that is used to set the speed. When the platter is spinning if you see the dotted line through the viewing window moving left or right you can adjust the speed with a thumb wheel. Once the line is perfectly still the speed should be correct.

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Now, just have to figure out how to mount it inside my truck...for when I am driving😉

Of the remaining turntables I have a Marantz and Nikko to look at. The 4th was garbage.
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I remember as a young teenager my brother in law having one of those turn tables with the light for setting speed. I thought that was the coolest thing ever. He had VERY high end stereo equipment and I remember the turntable looking just like the one in your picture. I have since seen several different makes (many years after) that have had a similar feature.
 
DPittman said:
I remember as a young teenager my brother in law having one of those turn tables with the light for setting speed. I thought that was the coolest thing ever. He had VERY high end stereo equipment and I remember the turntable looking just like the one in your picture. I have since seen several different makes (many years after) that have had a similar feature.
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Somebody on an audio forum said basically what you said. The strobe speed gauge started out as a feature on high end turntables. Later it became a more common feature on lower end tables to boost sales.
 
DPittman said:
I remember as a young teenager my brother in law having one of those turn tables with the light for setting speed. I thought that was the coolest thing ever. He had VERY high end stereo equipment and I remember the turntable looking just like the one in your picture. I have since seen several different makes (many years after) that have had a similar feature.
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Nope on closer look now I remember his turntable had a light post in the one corner and it shone on the rotating base of the turntable. The base had 3 or for lines of raised bumps, each line at different spacing and you adjusted speed until one of those lines of bumps seemed to no longer move.
 
Ishmael said:
I have a couple thousand pennies (remember those?) They make great spacers/washers, and they also fit my old gumball machine.
Plus, I can't get nicked for defacing coinage, as these things have been decommissioned, as it were.
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They are perfect under a strap clamp so as to not mar the work.
 
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