Posted by HereKittyKitty [ 4.245.40.61 ] on January 08, 2005 at 21:49:05:
In Reply to: Re: Marantz TT440 Linear Tracking Turntable posted by Wayne Parham on January 02, 2005 at 18:46:31:
Yea !!!!
The stupidity ends (whether it is mine or of some sort of cosmic relation I will leave in the hands of the viewers and doers....)
This turntable does not even have a retaining ring holding onto the turntable. The phantom ring, if anything, appears to have been some time-accumulated sludge. Gosh... what work a little technical manual might have saved this guy!
Of course, everything (once the turntable was removed) was easy from there on out.
I did want to say, that regardless as to whether your feedback (Wayne) was right on line or not (in this case not) it was indeed useful in ways you might not have imagined. One day I started to play back some of your thoughts regarding this in my head, just to make certain that something you had mentioned might not apply to this situation. Looking and handling the turntable in that manner made me decide to consider if in fact I might not be being close-minded in my approach to solving the problem in the first place. I looked at the situation from a few other angles and decided that perhaps I was limiting my perspective to my original approach. (Perhaps deep down I was actually prefering the thought of axing this turntable to finding a legitimate solution that would be bloodless! 
)
Instead I picked the turntable up and progressed carefully probing to see if I could learn anything which I had missed in my first pass at the job, and after a bit of sweat and steam I pulled the turntable platter off. Zounds!
Fixing something coming from this sort of perspective (a, duh, total ignorance) often is some kind of miracle, and your response helped in that, so I thank you.
For all future fiddlers.... This turntable, simply pulls straight off. It may adhere to the spindle quite tightly, but at least this time around, there appears to have been no retaining ring involved in holding this turntable in place at all.... Ahhhh. One less realm of ignorance for this tinkerer. So many more to fall into tomorrow?
Best!
Dan
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