Brand new Technics SL-1210GR platter wobble ... disappointed!

The deformation is also in two spots,  not one, so it's impossible for it to be a side impact, as that would be one wobble for the spindle, not two unequal length ones per single rotation.

So it appears to be a platter wobble.

the way to check that is to lift the patter and turn the spindle a third of a rotation or half a rotation and then drop the platter back down onto it again, with the platter having done no rotations at all.

and check the wobble again to see if it changes it's character.

Wait... there IS a way to have two wobbles per rotation, now that I think about it. 

Where the spindle is bent and the spindle hole on the platter is stretched and/or the platter body itself is bent. That would be two separate wobbles if not aligned or one big one, if they are lined up. A single sharp hard impact would create the single big one that could be moved about to be two smaller wobbles.

@chakster and others,  I returned it because it is out of stock with no date when it will be in stock again. This table is always out of stock.

The crutchfield resident tt expert I talked to said this amount of wobble is "normal" with these tables. Which means if I exchange it, there is no guarantee of receiving a table with no visible wobble. Or if I send it to the factory, they will send it back saying this is within normal tolerances. He said most do not complain.

So I know most of us think it should have no visible wobble, but many do. Unless some SL-1200/1210GR owners can tell me they have a table with no visible wobble.

I don’t have GR, but owned 3 samples of the SP-20, one SP-10 mkII and still got a pair of upgraded SL1210mkII since 1995. The platter is spot on, never seen a problem like in your videos on any sample of my Technics turntables.

Dealers nowadays are know nothing amateurs.

I would not find that amount of wobble to be acceptable on even a used plasticy 40 year old $50 turntable.

In my mind there is no way that technics/panasonic would find it to be acceptable, either.

I just don’t see it.

I’ve probably handled and worked on nearly a thousand turntables.* And I’ve never seen a panasonic product with that much wobble/warp. 

*(I consider myself to be totally 'out' of analog, as I'm down to around 15 turntables. :P )

It is broken. Shot, Kaput