Har købt sådan en smuk sag, men den der er lige et par småting som skal ha en kærlig hånd.

Motoren er i stykker, dvs. den kan køre rundt, men i nogle positioner skal den hjælpes igang. Der er iøvrigt en mislyd som kommer inde fra selve motoren.

Er ret overbevist om, at det er en vikling/anker eller noget i den stil som er i stykker.

Nogen som har erfaringer med den slags og som evt. kan anbefale en elektromekaniker eller lign.

venlig hilsen

 

Anders

 

 

Beklager mit plageri, men kender nogen til en Garrard ekspert eller lign herinde.

vh.

Anders

hej Anders
Du kan se hvordan Thomas Schick restaurerede sin 301 her


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her har du et link til bundplade og lejer m.m.

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her en 301 gemmen hele møllen

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her er en hel tråd om Garrard på Pink Fish Medie

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Mange tak R-l-b. meget godt links du kom med der.

Er på arbejde nu, men skal skille motor ad senere, er spændt på hvor mislyden er, og så skal jeg have den til at trække på alle 3 poler eller hvad det nu hedder.

Glæder mig som et lille barn til at få den op og spille.

Der følger en flot vintage plint med, men den er ikke så gedigen som jeg vil have det, så skal igang med at snedkerere. Endvidere har jeg luret på en Jelco 750 arm, og så må vi se om jeg har råd til en pickup. Hold op det bliver dyrt det her:)

Endnu engang tak for Links R-L-B.

Juhuu, problemet er væk efter noget vertikal-justering og den snurrer lystigt.

Var også nød til at justere den omdrejningsvælgerpal som sidder på motor, da motoren grundet stilstand var sunket nogle
milemeter.

Nu hvor jeg er igang kan jeg lige så godt få smurt den helt igennem.

Har tænkt at bestille sådan et kit til bundstykket som bærer vægten fra pladen: http://www.analogtubeaudio.de/index.php?
article_id=128

Skulle ifølge flere kilder være et godt tweak.

God aften

vh.
Anders

det var så lidt - smid endelig nogle billeder op når du har fået den i plint med arm og det hele

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Hej igen R-l-b.

Det skal jeg gøre.

Skal snart igang med en plint og smider nogle billeder op i diy når der sker noget.


Skilte motoren af og fandt ud af, at den ikke var centeret helt præcis, hvilket gav friktion og mislyd. Nu er motoren centreret
og smurt fra top til tå.

Mekanikken er faktisk ikke specielt indviklet og jeg vil anbefale andre at give deres Garrard en smøring, det lønner sig.

Her en lille fin historie om en 401 genoplivning, man bliver jo næsten rørt.



FEATURE - GARRARD 401 TURNTABLE - REVIVED
Spurred by growing interest in the famous Garrard 401 turntable, Noel Keywood dusts the cobwebs off his own and brings it
up to date.
I once bought a gorgeous new hi-fi turntable, the best there was - and it rumbled. I remember the disappointment now and I
never quite accepted that this wonderfully built machine, a Garrard 401, could really rumble so badly. It had an excellent
reputation even then, back in the early Seventies, and boy did I ever want to own one. The massive cast platter with its
machined-in strobe markings was incomparable and it has never really been bettered even now.

I collected a 'solid wood' plinth from a company in Peterborough. This, I was told, would cure the rumble. It didn't. That
massive motor and the huge rubber idler wheel looked far too purposeful to be compromised in their activities by a few bits
of real wood, I remember thinking - and so it was. All that was back in prehistory, when, in the naivety of youth, I thought
that life had just started when I got a job on Hi-Fi Answers magazine.

I could not bring myself to give up on that Garrard; it really was so beautifully engineered. Only years earlier I had been
crawling around the spectacular frame of Concorde, immersed in the finest engineering anyone could hope to see, and even
with that as a contrast the 401 didn't look like the duffer it turned out to be.

For some reason, I never did contact Garrard to tell them my 401 rumbled like an express train. I'm not sure I wanted to
believe it myself so hoping that one I might learn how to suppress the huge 25Hz tone it produced, I carefully put it up into
the loft.

It only just survived. Reaching the loft is preparatory to life in another world. When, after a few years, something has sat
there unwanted and unused, it eventually goes to the great tip in the sky. Then another item takes its place. Even in my most
brutal and heartless of moments, the Garrard survived, sitting there quietly gathering dust - wanted, but only just. One day, I
thought, I'll find time to fix that turntable, then it'll take pride of place.

It didn't quite turn out like that. As Hi-Fi World got underway I began to find others who thought the 301 and 401 were under-
rated. Then I saw a warehouse full of them awaiting export to Japan; then I heard that Loricraft restored and built plinths for
these turntables; then I was told that if I phoned a number a man called Martin Bastin would be able to help me with a new,
even heavier plinth for my 401 and - amazingly - an improved main bearing. Together, they might just cure the rumble.

Would that be possible? I doubted it; mine was too badly afflicted. All the same, I decided I was prepared to spend quite a lot
of money on the off-chance that my 401 would at least become useable. No one, I noted, actually made any firm promises
about this, but then it isn't something that you can promise. Off went the 401 for major surgery, on a prayer that it would
return in full health .

TWELVE INCH TUBE
During our visit to the SME factory some months ago I spotted an awesome looking 12in arm. It wasn't the lightweight classic
3012 used by jocks at radio stations, but a new 312 with tapered arm tube and solid headshell. But surely, I thought to
myself, no one is interested in vinyl any more, so it'll never see the light of day.

People wouldn't even know why you might want a 12in arm these days. Even SME seemed a little non- committal about this
fine looking piece of engineering. Rather than let it get passed over by progress, I thought the 312 would be in a perfect
setting if paired with the upgraded Garrard before being exposed in a review.

After all, both are part of an old technology, yet both also incorporate modern ideas in an effort to advance that technology.
Neither unit has turned its back on development; neither is an anachronism, nor a worthy veteran. Together, I suspected,
these two components, made for each other a long time ago, might show just how well they can perform together today.

AWESOME AND MASSIVE
A massive drawback of the 12in SME always was that - it's massive! Awesome it may well appear to be, but then so is any
plinth big enough to accommodate it. Martin Bastin had to make a specially large plinth and he brought the arm forward
(clockwise around the Garrard in effect) in order to limit front-rear depth. This means the arm sits at an angle when in its
rest and the plinth is wider than it might be, but it is more likely to fit onto a shelf or wall bracket. I have a bay window, with
a firm and wide sill. It just manages to accommodate this 52lb plinth, offering a firm, vibration- free horizontal location for it.

Did it work? Yes - and better than I dared imagine. I admit to fitting a Goldring 1042 cartridge in some haste, bothering little
with fine alignment, just to test for rumble. I thought it unlikely that the mods that had been performed would be adequate. It
seemed more likely that the motor or idler wheel of my unit were at fault, meaning a new main bearing and plinth might
have precious little effect.

It was great to be proved wrong. The Garrard had miraculously become very quiet. Even vinyl roar seemed in good check At
enormous volume I could hear the speaker cones flapping hard, stimulated by record warps, but there was no sign of
feedback into the plinth, from loudspeakers about six feet away. Only the spectrum analyser could tell whether a hint of that
25Hz rumble remained. But if it did, I couldn't hear it

I wasn't expecting miracles, and certainly not this degree of improve- ment. The 401 hasn't just been rejuvenated; it has
been transformed, entering the mainstream of hi-fi life splendidly after twenty years of idleness. It is effectively new, having
never been used in earnest before, of course. But from the moment I found it fully useable all this changed. The cartridge
was installed, the arm carefully set up and LPs started to build up in little, vertical groups around the lounge as I set about
enjoying them again.

It's not that I haven't been able to enjoy them before, but solid-plinth turntables are very easy to use, especially if you hand-
cue, like me; I just cannot use a lift/lower. With a rock-solid plinth offering a firm foundation, and with a beautifully
machined, magic-wand of an arm, the 401 finally proved what I had always suspected: it is a superb machine to own and
use.

A GOOD RAFT OF STRENGTHS
I'm not going to claim at this point that, with the improved bearing, it is unequivocally better in its sound than good,
suspended sub-chassis turntables, although I believe it has firmer, more tuneful and better resolved bass than most of them.
What I would say is that, when mounted properly and fitted with a good arm it is up amongst the best, with a good raft of
strengths, some of which are quite a surprise, subjectively.

The huge, high torque motor and no-slip idler drive give it some impressive advantages. There are also a few small
blemishes, minor colourations we might say, that could usefully be expunged, but then this is always the case. A perfect hi-fi
product hasn't been invented.

Such a beautifully engineered turntable was built to have a use in this life, and now it has. Not only does it sound superb but
it is a delight to use. The gorgeous new turntable I once bought has finally entered my hi-fi system after twenty years - and it
was worth the wait.         & nbsp;