Garrard 301 restoration project

[Wakefield Turntables]

Another day and another update. Done quite a lot today. The platter has been repainted internally and externally (which i may do again as i'm not happy with the finish). The strobe marking on the periphery of the platter have been polished. Prolly 1st time ever The bearing had a good degrease and poilsh with good old brasso today. Even the nuts and bolts got a cleaning. Today I also managed to get some measurements in for the plinth (see photo included). The stone I have may be large enough for a 12" arm , its 75mm thick and I have no idea how much it weighs. I'll have to start and look for a workshop that can work with it. I also managed to make some custom 85mm threads so i can mount the chasis on the plinth. Over the next few days I'll be looking for some small nuts and bolts for the faceplates on the plinth. I'm not going to rivet these as I dont have the gear and I dont want to spend the money on rivets and a river gun (well I might, depends on how expenisve they are??). I think the next stage will be to clean and rebuild the motor unit and maybe some resoldering OK, enough for today hope you enjoy the pix.