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Hi Jon. No, I'm afraid I've never got round to it yet - I had a new hip in May and that kept me out of the workshop for a while; now I'm catching up on the backlog of repairs for customers. One day I'll have time to finish my own projects!

Hi Sean. There aren't any workshop manuals as such but yes, all gramophone motors work in much the same way, although some of the early ones are a bit more delicate! Fortunately the motor inside a 112A is a Garrard, so nice and robust. It'll probably benefit from cleaning all the old grease and accumulated dust off the gears before relubricating with medium grease and gear oil on the fibre governor drive gear. The secret to doing this properly is to note carefully where the spacer washers etc. come from as you dismantle it, to make sure you put them back in the correct places!

Thank you! Springs I source from Ko Notenboom at www.zwarteschijf.nl in Rotterdam. He's the biggest spare parts supplier in Europe, and sends things out all over the world. HMV originally used graphited grease in the spring barrel and medium grease on the other gears. However, since you can only get graphited grease in 15 litre tubs these days (it's sold as 'fifth wheel grease' for lubricating the connection between lorry cabs and trailers) that's rather a lot if you're only doing one machine! So in practice you might as well use medium grease in there as well, Garrard did as standard and their motors survive pretty well. I buy grease by Morris of Shrewsbury from Sussex Engine Supplies in Bognor Regis, but there's probably a specialist car parts supplier on an industrial estate near you. Good luck!

No, it's an HMV 5B, fitted as standard.