Guys,
Every Xmas I like to do a little restoration project this year its a Garrard 301 i paid £175 for. Has anyone seen a garrard 301 like this before?
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Guys,
Every Xmas I like to do a little restoration project this year its a Garrard 301 i paid £175 for. Has anyone seen a garrard 301 like this before?
Just a few quick pictures. I have recieved the chasis for the 301 and its in very good condition, I'll be putting the bearing in there pretty soon. You'll also see from one of the pictures a nice chunky Isotek elite screen mains cable, this will be going in instead of the piece of 30 year old crap that was attached to the 301. At the moment I'm in the process of stripping down all the idler drive and doing an inventory of whats needed. It looks like a set of new springs is needed as well as a set of new knobs and faceplates of front of the chasis. This is a job that will have to wait after Xmas :( Bewteen now and then I'll be getting the brasso out and cleaing over 30 years worth of crap away from the idler drive. There is also some damage inside of the platter where the brake has worn out it also looks like some mat black spray paint might be on the horizon to smarten this up.
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I love a good restoration flick.
Matt at Audio Grail does nice restorations. look at the ebay ad & short films to see which aspects can be addressed. I think the linkages are stripped & zinc passivated because the original cadmium plating is rather toxic.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/190572236765
Good luck Andrew - great to see an old 301 get a new lease of life. :)
Yeh good luck, a proper turntable at last
Very Nice Andrew keep the pics and updates coming :)
Thanks for the nice comments guys. Some more info on how its going. Well today I bought some matt black paint to refurb the inside of the platter. I also fitted the bearing the chasis, nice and easy, altough I may upgrade this to the Kokomo II bearing, will have to do some research, it all depends if the things rumbles when I finally get it working again. I also took time to have a good look around the springs and rubber components. Well bugger me several of the springs have warped and the vast majority of the rubber has either crumbled or gone hard :( So on my shopping list I've added a new set of faceplates, a full set of new springs, a brake pad, new set of levers, some isolation grommets and some isolation washers. This little lot will cost about £130 but should be worth it. I also cleaned up the copper work in the 4HF switch assembly (Pics included), I'll also be resoldering this with silver solder and probably replacing the crappy instrinsic wiring with either silver or some newer better insulated copper. Right my missus is complaining so i better get lost for another night!
just a few more pics.
Have you dismantled the bearing assembly yet, Andrew? My 401 bearing was fine, but it rumbled like a basterd, it was actually the idler wheel and inside of the platter that once cleaned up cured it - I'm a bit suspicious of the aftermarket bearings, to be honest - lots of contradictory stories out there, and provided everything is sorted on the standard one I don't think it will the the source of any rumble. I'm no expert on these matters, though - just my personal opinion/experience. :)