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Audio Desk vinyl cleaner disassembly

After my vinyl cleaner passed the 2-year mark, the water pump failed.  It was sent to Germany for repair and it costs a lot.  When it came back, one of the blower fans was not working, which means Audio Desk did not do a good job checking everything before shipping it back.

I will not send it back to Germany for repair and would like to try self repair.  But trying to disassemble the vinyl cleaner is a real challenge.  I remove the bottom rubber legs but cannot find any fasteners.  The front, back, and top covers are glued together, I think using PVC glue.

If anyone here have experience with the vinyl cleaner disassembly and/or self repair, please can share the methods which worked.  Thank you.
anwar
anwar OP
119 posts
 
Hi everyone, I hope those who have successfully opened the Audio Desk vinyl cleaner (for service or repair) are kind enough to share the method how to open it.  Thank you so much.
g_m_c
443 posts
 
anwar, any luck over the last year with your AD cleaner?  or has anybody found a US repair person?
Thanks for any help
anwar OP
119 posts
 
Hi gmc, maybe due to large number of AD cleaners sent back to Germany for repair, Reiner Glass decided to send repair instructions to the dealers Nov last year.  The local dealer shared the instruction with me.  For replacing the blower fans, the top cover needs to be removed by gentle knocking with mallet.  Once the top cover is removed, the fans are visible.  The fans were glued to the side walls and need to be pried off.

The new fan were installed to the side wall using hot glue gun.  The top cover requires Tangit PVC glue which the dealer gave me.  This whole unit was assembled using glue, no fasteners!

For water pump replacement, the external bottom cover needs to be knocked off and then the internal bottom cover needs to be drilled (large hole) for access to the water pump.  What a design...
ebm
9,311 posts
 
Sounds like its but together cheaply this is why i have the Kl Audio its a much better unit.Good luck.

crs_cng
2 posts
 
Hi Anwar, I got the water pump dead problem too, I try to fix myself, but when I took the bottom plate off, I could not locate the pump position, so I can not drill a hole at random position. Do you know where should I drill and what is the drill size, I think this will help some one try to fix this bad quality machine.
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