Platter stuck on your sl1200,or one channel not working?

0:00 Beg your pardon, right, I'll write it down anyway

Alright folks, this is a video going out to, I hope I get this right, it's Michael Zasuskansi. Beg your pardon, right, I'll write it down anyway. What he's saying is that he finds it very difficult, well he can't get the platter off one of his SL1200s. And also, one of the channels doesn't work on one side. Right, OK, now I just happen to have in front of me a turntable, so if we wang the old camera down like that, there is the turntable. Now the platter is this part here, it's basically the top where you will put the slip mat and on top of the slip mat you'll put your vinyl. Now then you'll notice two holes here. Now what I do is I will put my thumbs in the holes and then press down with the other fingers and lift. Ah, but it won't lift. Now that's stuck. Now that is a problem that happens quite often. How do we get away from it being stuck?

A piece of wood, anything, doesn't matter. Not a heavy object. You want something where there's just a tiny bit away. Ideally a piece of wood or, I don't know, maybe even a wooden spoon from the kitchen, a rolling pin, that kind of thing. Now what you need to do is just tap the middle and then watch. There you go. Now, that wasn't put on, OK, because I put just as much pressure on that platter as I did... First time with the second time, exactly the same amount. Now what happens is inside the middle there, sometimes it just sticks a little bit, just a tiny bit. So all you need to do, like I've said, is just tap that a little bit, not with your hand, it's got to be something that's relatively hard. Don't start knocking it with a hammer or something very, very heavy because you could ruin the mechanism, the actual motor inside here. Something, tiny bit of pressure on there and then...

1:59 It should be able to lift up

It should be able to lift up. Once you've done that once or twice, no problem. Now also he said that one of the channels isn't working. Now then, right, it could be quite a few reasons. One reason it could be here because the connections, especially in old turntables, you have four connections there on your cartridge and those four connections are connected into here, into the middle. Now then, what I do, I mean yeah you can lick it blow it and God knows what but I suppose ideally the best thing to do get your jeans and first of all the connections there on the actual cartridge just rub it because what will happen over a period of time the connections here will deposit tiny bits of dirt so of course then you may lose the connection inside there and then what I do I tend to blow in there just blow and then replace it.

Put it back in. Now then, if you're still having problems, then it could be these guys, the actual connections. Now, if you can see, this one here has been redone. There's the connection. Because what happens is these tend to pull and over a period of time they'll wear away and then you will have a dodgy connection. So, this is what you do. Plug those two in to your connection in the back of the mixer. If one side is working but the other side isn't, then swap them over. Then if all of a sudden on your speakers the other side's working and the other side isn't, then it's one of these connections. So go back, take one out, listen to one, say just have the white one in. If that one isn't working, then you know it's this one, but just to make sure, connect the red one in. And then if the red one's working, then try to double make sure.

3:51 Put the red one in the left channel, take it out

Put the red one in the left channel, take it out. Left one in the right channel, take it out. So when it's in the left, if the left speaker is working, fine. Put this one then in the right speaker, if the right speaker is working, fine. And to check again, put the white one in the left and right. If you've got no sound, then you will know that there's a problem here. Now then, it's up to you if you want to do this, but if you cut somewhere along here... Anywhere along here, what you'll have then is you will have two wires. You will have an earth wire that goes around the centrepiece. Now this one here, the centrepiece, here you've got the black plastic. It's like rubber that fits around the wire. Then underneath here you'll have wire that wraps all the way around a white piece of plastic.

And then inside the white piece of plastic you've got another wire. What you need to do is you need to connect the white wire, sorry not the white wire, the wire that's inside the white plastic to another one of these guys. Then you need to wrap tape around that to make sure the outside wire does not connect at all. Thanks for watching. is a way of making sure that you know both channels work so I hope I've been a help there don't forget practice and enjoy thank you for watching

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