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damn UPS
So i pack up my Turntables (SL 1200's) and put them in a coffin to ship back from school (Los Angeles) to home (St. Louis). I ship them back via UPS
they come home and i notice that the coffin is open. The walls seperating the turntables from the mixer are broken, and one turntable is smashed up against the mixer.
Luckly one turntable comes out just dandy. the mixer is fine (except for a piece of one of the nobs chipped off. The other turntable is another story.
it spins fine, but the tone arm is all out of whack. no matter home much weight you put on it it keeps floating back to the position where it locks (to the right, away from the center of the vinyl, its resting positon). THe turntable can still hold the groove ok when it is playing a vinyl, but it is one hell of a bitch to use when you are cueing up a vinyl on the first groove (especially a vinyl that is 45). The needle keeps sliding off the record. I can't hold the first groove to push start a record for the life of me.
I have done everything possible with balancing and moving the weights around. I've tried different needles, moved the needle around, added more weight, shifted around the height of the tone arm, shifted around the height of the legs on the turnable and i still can't get the tone arm from floating back to the right.
Also the metal shaft of the tone arm will also twist a couple of degrees counter clockwise which it is not supposed to do.
Any body have any suggestions on how to fix this? cuz i'm dieing. its been too long without mixing.
Luckly i got the tables insured, so now i have to deal with UPS and getting them to pay. It's be nice if i could get a new TT out of them, but thats wishing for a miracle.
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