A customer recently brought in an old Pioneer PL112D turntable to get sorted. He had put a new drive-belt on, but it refused to play anything.. a quick check revealed that the stylus was destroyed & he opted to replace the old cartridge with an Ortofon 2M Red. This was duly fitted, however we noticed that the arm-lift mechanism wasn’t working. On investigation we discovered that the small plastic lever that transfers movement of the arm-lift lever to the bottom of the arm lift had broken.. Of course obtaining a new one was out of the question due to its age, however 5 minutes of measuring and design on TinkerCad, plus 30 minutes of 3D printing, and we had a new cam follower lever which only required a small amount of adjustment to make fit, fixing the problem.
This isn’t one of our normal turntables we focus on, however it seemed like a simple fix, so we went for it… Bringing life back to an old turntable from the late 1970s.
A very satisfying result and a very satisfied customer..
