Rega Planar 2 Refurb

Thanks for the responses, I'll take a good look at the sites, threads and services you have recommended.

I'm still keen on rewiring the arm myself, I'm a demon with a soldering iron, and have extensive experience prototyping electronic circuitry, just not played with an arm before. I'm sure with the resources you guys have pointed me to, I'll find out what the job entails.

As suggested, I think I may try Rega directly for the decal. I could replace the dust cover, but I spent so long removing the paint and polishing out the scratches on the one I have, that I'm loathe to abandon it.

Joel at Audiowood has quite a few parts. I know he has the complete dustcover, but might have a decal/badge.

http://audiowood.com/about.html

Great call on Joel at Audiowood. He has a badge on its way to me now. I know where I'll be going when I have the cash for a piece of Turntable art!

The Rega-refurb list of companies seem to grow by the year - so scour the web to find the one that fits your budget

I initially had the Cardas tonearm upgrade applied to my arm and it was a significant upgrade.

After a few years i decided to completely rebuild the TT, which now only has the power switch and dustcover left over from original components.

The arm I replaced with a Series 3 (classic) tonearm from Audiomods, which is just amazing and uses a Rega Arm Tube - highly modified.

They also do arm upgrade kits and a one piece harness

So it really depends on how far you want to take the upgrades

Regards...

+1 on the AudioMod arms. I have (2) of them and they are indeed excellent. Jeff’s a good guy to deal with too.

http://www.audiomods.co.uk/index.html

Inspire HiFi in the UK has some really nice table upgrades also.

http://www.inspirehifi.co.uk/quest.html