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Ol' Jean has moved uptown with his tonearms. I'm impressed - perhaps one day we will all have an address at the Tony Arms. Get it, huh, huh??? :0)

Well, I finally got my L59 set up in the new room and once again I am struck at how not-real cee dee counds in comparison - and Ray Price was sounding mighty fine on CD. Threw on the first record I laid eyes on, Miles / Nefertiti and was blown away with the natural timbres and timing.

In a related story, I am setting up my Garrard 401 and once again am confronted with the (slightly) bent eddy brake disk. It is enough to make the plinth vibrate so you can feel it through your finger tips. If anybody knows where to get a replacement or has other advise, please respond. At this point, I am going to dismantle and try to finesse it back into shape with my fine adjustment tool (hammer).

Mike

On the 401 the eddy current disc should run true to avoid generating vibration, because the braking magnet is only on one side of the disc. The 301 magnetic brake is a horse-shoe shaped affair with the magnetic force transferred from the magnet itself via the two "legs" of the horseshoe, which "straddle" the eddy current disc so that if the disc wobbles a little, the effect is minimized: as the disc moves toward one "leg" it moves away from the other and vibration cancels out.

Good luck with straightening the disc on your 401. Very occasionally someone will "part-out" a 401 and sell the parts on E***.

If I've got rust in the motor should I just bail out now? I started cleaning up an L75 I bought through an ebay auction and I wasn't too happy to see rust and corrosion spots underneath. When I opened the motor up there was rust inside and rust where the plug wires connect. It spins fine but I'd just like to know if this is a really bad sign.

Hi Leisual: if the Lenco is working fine, then buy some rust solvent and clean the Lenco up and go through with it. The cleaning up part will be more work, bt in the end it will be stellar. Apparently tea is an excellent rust solvent: TEA.

Hi Mike, the disc MUST be utterly flat or it's not worth the effort (too much vibration/noise). The other option is a variac with which you can adjust the voltage/speed and remove the offending disc completely. Do as Gene suggests and wait for a spare on ePay, as a variac will reduce torque, and Torque is Sacred.

Crem, take it as an attack if you are that defensive. YOU seemed to be saying that folks at NASA were testing the efficacy of steam cleaning vinyl records. No? If they were doing this as part of a taxpayer funded activity, I consider it a waste of money. If you are just talking about people who happen to work at NASA who are doing some sort of home testing, I'd only ask, so what? That's all.