How to replace the arm rest on a Technics sl1200

Alright folks, quite a few people have emailed me and they've told me that the actual armrest, the plastic thing here, on their Technics SL1200 is broken and they need to replace it. Now then, this is my way of doing it. Now then, very quickly, this here is a screwdriver, this is not a Phillips screwdriver, the screw underneath there is a Phillips screw and it's a star shape, ok, it's a cross. Now this is what you've got to do. Have you seen the set of Phillips screwdrives you can get? is grab the end of your Phillips screwdriver, okay? Now bear in mind get a cheap one, don't get an expensive one. And you need to turn it so it's 90 degrees. So in other words, 90 degrees is basically like that. Right? That is a 90 degree angle, if you can see there, okay? That is 90 degrees. That's how you want it, alright? Now also, you only want the tip to be a tiny amount. About, say, a quarter of an inch.

We'll say half a centimetre. So you turn it, now if you think about it, if you look under there, if I try and put that screwdriver under there, I can't do it. But, if I've now got the screwdriver under here, and there's a 90 degree angle, this screwdriver can actually get up into there. So, bearing in mind we're talking about a Phillips screwdriver as well. So the procedure is as follows. If you need to take the broken arm off, what you do is you'd have your screwdriver like so. You would then get your pliers and hold, okay, the area which you've actually twisted at 90 degrees and you move like so. You're twisting, you're twisting this off. So eventually this should come loose and you should take the old one off. Then what you do, again bearing in mind this is very fiddly, alright, you put your new one on, you screw back in, you fit your screw up there.

And then this is where it gets fiddly because you need to actually have pressure on this, so you may need a third person. Screwdriver underneath there, hold and screw like so. Now that is one way of actually refitting a new armrest, alright, the armrest here. The only other way I'm afraid is to take completely away the whole Arm housing, which is an absolute nightmare. So I hope that's been a help. It's just a little bit of an insight into how to replace one of these. If you want to know any more information, post a comment underneath this video and I'll try and answer it for you. Thanks for watching, practice and enjoy.

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