Thanks Alex. The next update will be something special.
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401 finished. Plinth being made. Nearly completed. Now excited. :eek:
One week and then the presentation of the restoration. Phew!!
Great thread, any update/photos on the finished 401?
Hope its exciting & not like all the other same old same old we see, Been on a knife edge for nearly a year now
:D
Ok I will see what I can do tonight over a whiskey
The Garrard 401 (39432) Restoration Pt X - Finally....
OK, so rather embarrassed I decided to take a few shots and write a little about the 401 project. So this is what it looks like.
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It has 2 arms. An Alphason HRS1000, silver rewired , this take care of MM cartridge duties. The second arm is the SME V-12 which takes care of MC cartridge duties. I've yet to order the Phasemation PP500, but I shall at the end of the month. Vinyl playing duties are being taken care of with either my Garrard 301 or Technics 1210. The plinth is a 25KG Martin Bastin birch ply construction. The Martin Bastin plinth enables 9" and 12" tonearm boards to be mounted quite easily. I've included a close up of the tonearm board for good reason.
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If you look closely you will see that the tonearm board design enables good coupling to the plinth. You'll also notice that you can add decoupling rubbers under the screws if you want and even bugger about with different tonearm board materials. I gave the 401 a new paint job. As you can see everything (and I mean everything) has been cleaned, polished, ultrasonically cleaned and re-assembled. The bearing is the original 401 but with Martin Bastin modifications (TOP SECRET)!!!
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If you look very carefully you'll notice that the screws holding the motor cage are missing. That's because we have decoupled the motor!
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Finally a quick shot showing complete speed stability at 33.3 RPM!
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The 401 is silent in operation. It sounds fantastic and has oodles more detail than the 301.
OK, that's it another resto complete!
Andy why has it took a year to do that?