Restoring Technics
Restoring Technics Posted on: 27.05.2012 by Jenise Kryszak So I'm on a mission to get my pair of mk2's looking great. I've been looking up videos on taking them apart, but I just don't know how to clean cabinet and tonearm base/height adjusment thing properly. There's a whole lot of gunk/dust in the crevices and I'm not really sure how to approach it. I was believeing of just taking it apart and using windex or soap water on it to see what I could scrape off. Anyone have some experience in restoring technics? I don't really want to buy new cabinets for them because they're around $150 each. | |
| Howard Roytman 13.08.2012 |
Originally Posted by djlotus
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| Howard Roytman 13.08.2012 |
Originally Posted by Luconia
As you can (hopefully) see, one of them is just starting to go. The other one is f |
| Howard Roytman 13.08.2012 |
Originally Posted by djlotus
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| Howard Roytman 13.08.2012 |
Originally Posted by Luconia
As you can (hopefully) see, one of them is just starting to go. The other one is f |
| Howard Roytman 13.08.2012 |
Originally Posted by djlotus
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| Howard Roytman 13.08.2012 |
Originally Posted by Luconia
As you can (hopefully) see, one of them is just starting to go. The other one is f |
| Howard Roytman 13.08.2012 |
Originally Posted by djlotus
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| Howard Roytman 13.08.2012 |
Originally Posted by Luconia
As you can (hopefully) see, one of them is just starting to go. The other one is f |
| Delila Vandommelen 15.08.2012 |
Originally Posted by milltown
Judging by the pics, that's a lot of sanding, kudos for pulling through. Good luck with the dots... how is that even taken care of? |
| Howard Roytman 13.08.2012 |
Originally Posted by djlotus
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| Howard Roytman 13.08.2012 |
Originally Posted by Luconia
As you can (hopefully) see, one of them is just starting to go. The other one is f |
| Romelia Stankard 31.07.2012 |
Originally Posted by Patch
I had considered powder coating a few times since im lazy and painting is time consuming but i didnt to save cash. Curious what a bad powder coat job looks like. Lots of powder coaters seem to just do stuff like metal furniture and Industrial stuff and not detail work. |
| Savanna Perimutter 31.07.2012 | Heres a photo of how mine turned out, sorry, just crappy iphone photos. I learned a ton… I made the mistake of using to large of RCA cables, so I wasnt able to attach the stress relief clamp, I just zip-tied them in… so I wouldnt really ever feel comfortable ever selling them unless I redid the RCAs. All the other mistakes I made reassembling where fixable, ha. Now I have the fever… I want to do another set to re-sell… IMG_0819.jpg IMG_0820.jpg IMG_0823.jpg |
| Jackelyn Pluim 31.08.2012 | Problem with restoring computer to factory settings? |
| Karolis Petrauskas 27.08.2012 | I agree, the tone arm sucks to take apart. I cleaned mine up pretty well with some toothpicks, q-tips, alcohol and an air can. As for taking apart the decks, check out viper franks videos on YouTube. He walks you through the entire process in 4 videos. I used it as a step by step for fixing mine. |
| Delila Vandommelen 15.08.2012 |
Originally Posted by milltown
Judging by the pics, that's a lot of sanding, kudos for pulling through. Good luck with the dots... how is that even taken care of? |
| Emely Metz 14.08.2012 | Nice, glad to know it was working for you I have scrapped mine to bare metal around the dotted area since the black paint has been peeled off badly, no corrosion though. leaving it bare would not affect the performance at all....just it looks unfinished. i agree with people working on the paint job of the platter...just take your time. |
| Howard Roytman 14.08.2012 | I sanded them last evening
and I have to say the results were much better than expected On the worse platter I ended up taking it all the way back to pretty much bare metal. It took 320 grit paper to remove the worst of the corrosion, which obviously took a lot of the surrounding paint. Trying to feather it would have been a waste of time and still left it uneven, so I continued with the 320 and took all the paint and corrosion off. A good rub of wet 1200 grit left it ready for the Autosol and, after about three hours, I had a platter that would let a slipmat slip. The other platter still took a bit of 320 action to remove the corrosion, but where the first one was left maybe 20% paint and 80% metal after the corrosion was gone, on this one it was the opposite. The wet 1200 did a decent job of feathering the edges of the paint so I was happy to be able to give the Autosol a miss after the effort the other one took. I just want to get to using these decks as soon as I can (still waiting for a few bits, like slipmats and a power supply for the mixer) so I'm not planning on giving them a coat of paint. They'll be hidden under mats the whole time anyway and won't spend any more time in an environment that's conducive to that type of corrosion. I'll try get the "after" photos up tomorrow if I get a chance. |
| Emely Metz 13.08.2012 | hmm looks like corrosion but i can't tell if it's bad...Nicadraus has the same condition platter, only much worse in his latest project. I'm not sure what would he do about it. try sandpaper them down & see what happens ^^ |
| Howard Roytman 13.08.2012 |
Originally Posted by djlotus
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| Ira Alsadi 13.08.2012 | If you have any kind of corrosive build up on the chrome part of the platter try using a very fine sand paper to remove then 0/0 steel wool to smooth. If it is too deep in the aluminum, you may just new to opt for new platters. |
| Howard Roytman 13.08.2012 |
Originally Posted by Luconia
As you can (hopefully) see, one of them is just starting to go. The other one is f |
| Emely Metz 13.08.2012 | ^ mind to post some pics? so that we or the more experience person in here can guide you |
| Howard Roytman 13.08.2012 | Is it OK if I hop in here? I just picked up a pair of 1210s. Bargain price but they look like they have had a hard life and might have been stored in less than ideal conditions for a while. The platters are quite corroded, one is particularly bad and covered almost entirely in that white "bloom" type stuff. What's the best way to get these back to a smooth finish? I see Autosol mentioned earlier in this thread. Is this the safest way? Time, elbow grease and Autosol? Presumably using one of those plastic wool dish scourers is the way to go? Thanks in advance! |
| Claude Koveleski 08.08.2012 | ebay is your friend for parts. It's fairly easy just take your time. Maybe take some pics before you pull it to bits. Youtube also has quite a fe videos of SL1200 repairs. |
| Kandi Odom 08.08.2012 | Hi all, just a quick question i found a great deal on a pair of sl1200 mk2 US$250 one of them is working somehow properly (the antiskate is not working and the pop up light is burned) the other one its skipping a lot and when i check the tone arm is stiff as hell!! So my question is was that a business?? what would be the cost of a new tone arm and arm base??? and how difficult is to set it up??? Thx in advance |
| Brunilda Kora 01.08.2012 | I'll put some pics up toevening
if I can. The quote said they would: Strip (shot blast) Etch Prime Powder coat Bake Laquer (Bake?) Looking at the finish, I'd say they: Light sanded Powder coat Bake Loads of imperfections... Pics will probably be 5.0mp from my Xperia phone. |
| Romelia Stankard 31.07.2012 |
Originally Posted by Patch
I had considered powder coating a few times since im lazy and painting is time consuming but i didnt to save cash. Curious what a bad powder coat job looks like. Lots of powder coaters seem to just do stuff like metal furniture and Industrial stuff and not detail work. |
| Brunilda Kora 31.07.2012 | I know I did. The finish on the deck plates is crap. Looks like they didn't clean off the plates first. Bubbles, lumps, craters and even a couple of scratches!!! I'll be straight in the phone tomorrow... |
| Savanna Perimutter 31.07.2012 | why thank ya. Im pretty happy with the way they turned out, even tho the all white/storm trooper thing has been done a million times. but yeah, i powder coated, it was def questionable if doing the tone arm stuf was worth the trouble… because it is A LOT of trouble. Finding a good powder coater is half the battle. I replied in your post with a lil info about my experience, it sounds like u got some lazy powder coaters! |
| Brunilda Kora 31.07.2012 | Those look AWESOME, mate. I had a bit of a evening
mare at the powercoaters - they've ruined 4 sets of tonearm pieces (thread HERE). How was your painting/powder coating experience? Did you paint or powder coat? Who masked off the tone arm bearings/points, etc..? |
| Savanna Perimutter 31.07.2012 | Heres a photo of how mine turned out, sorry, just crappy iphone photos. I learned a ton… I made the mistake of using to large of RCA cables, so I wasnt able to attach the stress relief clamp, I just zip-tied them in… so I wouldnt really ever feel comfortable ever selling them unless I redid the RCAs. All the other mistakes I made reassembling where fixable, ha. Now I have the fever… I want to do another set to re-sell… IMG_0819.jpg IMG_0820.jpg IMG_0823.jpg |
| Ira Alsadi 30.07.2012 | Dielectric grease for everything but the spindle. Your clipper oil should work for that. |
| Kandi Odom 30.07.2012 |
Originally Posted by thedeejay
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| Dagmar Cookston 30.07.2012 |
Originally Posted by Xonetacular
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| Dagmar Cookston 30.07.2012 |
Originally Posted by Xonetacular
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| Romelia Stankard 29.07.2012 | Yeah- check ebay for the decals http://www.ebay.com/itm/custom-techn...ht_2117wt_1398 |
| Dagmar Cookston 29.07.2012 | Nice white tables. Those are stickers on them right? The Technics 1200.... etc. I got mine painted recently but no decals on it at all. |
| Brunilda Kora 27.07.2012 |
Originally Posted by Xone
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| Romelia Stankard 27.07.2012 |
Originally Posted by Patch
I had gotten some cheap HOSA brand RCA cables and just cut them up and put fancier looking connectors on. I also put white power cables on both tables. A past owner had spliced two cords together on one table with solder and electrical tape and I couldn't find a two prong black cable/extension cord locally to replace it with so I just got two $1 white 6' extension cords, cut the end off and replaced them both and called it a feature. |
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