Vinyl is having a renaissance. Thanks to our collective want to make whatever is old new again, and to the new masters of an erstwhile medium like Scott Hull, the world is awash in billions of grams of vinyl.

Merely records don't play themselves, practice they? No. So if you're one of the new audiophile elite, you no dubiety have yourself a record actor. A tape actor, it'due south worth mentioning, whose primary design dates back to Thomas Edison'due south 1877 invention. Sure, things take inverse since and then. But not equally much as you'd imagine. So it stands to reason that you're going to need a repair hither and there.

One of the most common repairs—and one of the few tin do yourself—is replacing the bulldoze belt. Like any good piece of retro music gear, the guts are filled with motors, belts, screws and wires. And while this may make the bits and pieces of your turntable that much more likely to wear out, it too makes information technology easier to repair.

What follows are some instructions. But we recommend clicking the source link below and heading over to The Audio Blog for a bang-up video that shows everything you need to know and so some.

  1. Unplug everything so that there is no power running to your player.
  2. Remove the turntable platter by slowly sliding out the c-clamp that is holding it in place with the rest of the actor. It is a small piece in the center of the player.
  3. Carefully lift the platter up so every bit to non lose whatsoever small pieces. The bulldoze chugalug will be fastened to either the bottom end of the platter or on the pulley located at the base of the turntable.
  4. Gently slide the chugalug off. If you have a closer look at the bottom finish of the platter, there are two posts on opposite ends of the outside band. If y'all're using the aforementioned drive belt, you can advisedly stretch the bulldoze belt around the inner circle of the platter and and so adhere the other end to one of the posts.
  5. Marker the expanse where the belt is attached to the post and slowly lower the platter onto the drive motor at the spot where yous marked the post that holds the end of the drive chugalug.
  6. Give the platter a few turns until information technology pops off, one time it pops off it will be connected to the drive motor.
  7. To test if the belt attached to the motor, you will want to plug the tape role player back in and actuate the motor.
  8. If the platter doesn't outset spinning properly, the belt didn't make information technology onto the motor and you will need to repeat the process again.

Source: The Audio Blog