VPI turntable repairs

From your original post, you state that you need a "repair". Then your replies seem to state that your table has scratches...this is a "cosmetic" issue, not a repair issue per se. Have you tried using the table and listening to it? These are wonderful tables. Also, the seller never should have had ANYTHING that could have come loose anywhere near the plinth. I understand that's water under the bridge at this point, but it's the seller's fault this happened for improper packaging.

Once and if you ever listen to it, maybe the cosmetic issues won't be a big deal.

Parts for the these do come up from time to time on Audiogon. There is a MKII plinth for sale right now that would upgrade your JUNIOR, (if that is what you have, we really don't know for sure).

What's that old adage...don't throw the baby out with the bath water...

The OP isn't giving enough info for anyone to give a reasoned reply. What model tt? What tonearm? Are the scratches on the arm board, or on the tonearm itself? Etc.

Saying that, I'll guess at what's going on:

You've got an HW-19 JR. These were often shipped with an Audio Quest tonearm.

Plinth scratches? VPI has no one on board to spend the time to come up with innovative, one-off repairs to a finish of an out-of-production tt, or even do a complete refinish. They no longer carry the plinths for this deck. If you had a tt that they had parts for, I'm sure they'd be more than happy to ship you an entire new plinth. This is a problem, however, that could easily be sourced out locally, or even done diy.

Tonearm base scratches? I'll assume you mean the armboard. VPI no longer carries armboards for the HW-19 series. However, again, this is a project that could be easily sourced out locally. Are the scratches actually on the "tonearm base"? If the tonearm is JMW, I'm sure VPI would send you the appropriate part. If not a JMW, VPI does not have access to the many, many tonearms that might have been mounted on the decks.

There reaches a point, especially with outdated products, where a person has to do more legwork than simply calling a manufacturer and dumping the whole mess in their lap. A belt-drive turntable isn't an artificial heart-it's a simple machine on which anyone can learn to do simple repairs. You can 'be discouraged' if you must, but if you reach that point from a few cosmetic scratches, maybe vinyl isn't for you.

Once again, all conjecture-no info.

Is it the Piano finish? You may want to check with a piano shop, I'm sure they have the expertise in repairing such matters.

If they cannot repair it (it sounds like you may be in the Seattle area), if you absolutley cannot stand it, I'll take it off your hands. Just think of my pain, but I'm that kind of guy, I'll suffer so you don't have to. : )

Seriously, give the piano experts a look.

By the way, I believe the plinth on your model is acrylic.

Mofimadness: To give credit to the seller , he has offered to take care of the repaires but the problem is I can't seem to get it repaired..If someone would have just told me when the repairs can be completed I would waited for that to happen....I have spent quite a little money in this project at this point with a VPI PLC and Audio Research Phono pre-amp and cartridge.....Plus building a special stand for it......This has been going on since before Christmas... I sent it to VPI in the first of January.....If I knew what the Plinth was made of I could repair it myself.....The parts on the base I could make, but I'm losing interest at this point and I don't even have it back yet.....Will