heres a little thread about my sl-10, ebay find a few months back, cost a little over 125, which was ok, when i recieved it, it was more heavily knocked about than i first thought.

With lots of marks, and most annoyingly a broken catch that meant the lid wouldnt close properly. u can see its sitting proud on the left hand side.
The original 310mc cart had unfortunatley been damaged with a broken needle, but i had sourced a new old stock 310mc from the usa, which was alot more than the table itself.

Hooking it up an ortofon OMP10 it did play however, and didnt sound to bad considering, it wouldnt get to the end of the record however, which pointed to a worn arm drive belt. other than that here's what it looked like.


By rabid1981 at 2011-09-27

By rabid1981 at 2011-09-27

By rabid1981 at 2011-09-27

starting disassembley of top cover.


By rabid1981 at 2011-09-27


By rabid1981 at 2011-09-27

here you can see the drive belt, and where its gone oval due to age.


By rabid1981 at 2011-09-27


By rabid1981 at 2011-09-27

lifting the plastic strip to uncover the top screws for the acrylic window.


By rabid1981 at 2011-09-27


By rabid1981 at 2011-09-27

after removing platter and bottom shroud, heres the main pcb.


By rabid1981 at 2011-09-27

some of the electrolytics on the phono amp side.


By rabid1981 at 2011-09-27


By rabid1981 at 2011-09-27

here's the bare metal chassis, with pcb, and bearing etc removed.


By rabid1981 at 2011-09-27

ordered up a new drive belt and electrolytics for both the main pcb and the arm control board, nothing fancy, just nichicon series.
also some vw satin silver paint and a some sundries like isopropyl alcohol and some 400grit wet and dry.

had to make a mold for the latch assembley as its so small i cast it in two stages with latex forming the two halfs and a Polyurethane casting resin, with some black paint to spray up the finsihed part, as i ddint have a suitable dye.

will post the recap next, and reassembley.