Technics 1200 Tonearm Height and Cue Lever

[CageyH]

I'll be interested to know if the oil works.

[ktsimikos]

Hi Kevin,

The good news is that I re assembled the turntable, the tonearm height adjustment works fine and no damage has been done to anything!
Unfortunately the cue lever still doesn't seem to work.

I used this as my guide and disassembled it internally, applied the silicone oil generously and hoped it would work.

http://www.vinylengine.com/turntable...p?f=16&t=73987

My problem seems to be that the tonearm, when the lever is down does not lower at all. That's with the vta adjustment and the cartridge on it. When I apply pressure on
it with my finger it lowers and when i pull the lever up it rises but it does not go down on its own.

I read that I can try and damp it from the top by removing the screw on top and putting oil in there and maybe I ll try that too.

Any thoughts are welcome.

Thanks again!

[CageyH]

My thoughts are that the silicone oil is too thick, or there is too much of it in there.

[ktsimikos]

I don't think so because it didn't work on the first place and when I opened it
there was hardly any oil in there. Anyway I'll try and unscrew it from the top as
well and let you know if I see anything interesting!

[CageyH]

Have you tried oiling the spring/damper assembly?

[ktsimikos]

Hey Kevin, I'll try that tonight and post some pics. I'll unscrew it from the top and see if I need to clean up anything in there and add some oi. Hopefully it will work!
That's the last thing that I can think of since everything else seems to work fine

[CageyH]

I think you need to access it from the bottom.