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Introduction |
| After many years of storage in the garage, the tone arm of my Technics SL-1900 turntable would no longer rise and fall when I worked the tone arm control lever. It stubbornly stayed in the full “up” position. | | | I decided to disassemble the device to check the condition of the grease in the tone arm lift mechanism. If the grease was hard, I would clean it off and apply new grease Fortunately for me, the grease was still fine. | | Fortunately for meTherefore, the grease was still fine. Toto fix the problem, I simply shot some WD-40 into two key moving points, and gotthat was sufficient to get the lift mechanism working again. This lubrication did not require any disassembly at all; however, since I went through all of the disassembly I figured, why not turn it into a guide? |
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