10:28 "I declare myself to be qualified"... amazing.

It's hard to beat the price of free!

"This may look like something Shango66 would pull out of an abandoned mining town" Utterly brilliant!

Vwestlife slogan "change trash to be gold". I respect to you.

Well done sir. I like that you have saved this from the trash and made it into a very respectable and serviceable record deck.

That really cleaned up well! You did a nice job.

This is a real Garrard machine hahaha I got a Garrard one and its mechanism and appearance is almost the same

I watched this again and I am taking notes of what you are discovering yourself. Thanks again and a warm handshake from my humble country the Philippines 🇵🇭.

Good job! Orphan turntables and amps are like orphan records that are still playable. They need a good cleaning and a good home.

I remember when I was 12 (1982) and around a lot of apartment complexes dumpsters I would find good TVs, stereos, and an ocasional clock radio that worked perfectly good.

The trash of some is the treasure of others

Hi Kevin I had a new Garrard SP25 Mk3 with a Goldring cartridge in 1975 which was also idler Drive.

Those Shure M75 series cartridges are great. They later changed the design of the housing when they created the M75 Type 2; the original M75 (the one you have) is quite versatile because you can fit literally dozens and dozens of different Shure styli on them.

We want the whole "Today's Hits" vinyl uploaded here. British made.

It's a Garrard. They sold tons of these here in Brazil throughout the 80's. It came with a Pickering V15 cartridge and DAT 2 stylus.

It's definitely one Shango066 would have grabbed since he loves his Zenith products!

As they say - One man's junk is another man's treasure!

Really cool. Thank you for showing how to go about restoring a record player. I wish you the best, man.

Also kind of reminds me a little bit of Radiotvphononut where he also sometimes finds some of the most beat up turntables from the most unusual places and then fully restores them like new again. I always enjoy these electronics restoration videos.

This looks absolutely identical to a Garrard turntable I had as a kid. The level for speed/size and manual/auto are identical. Even the Zenith nameplate on top is the same location as the Garrard one was.

Wow. You did a good job. Really amazing to see stuff like this to be thrown out. Glad you found and restored it the best way you could. I wish i could find stuff like this.

That's a really nice find. Great job with the cleanup!

So cool man, nice job. Such an awesome thing to be able to do

As you mentioned in your video, This turntable is actually made by Garrard in the 1970’s. I have a couple of them. I had sent the idler wheel out to be rebuilt and bought a new Grado Green cartridge

not sure how i missed this video wow what an amazing Restoration

Nice! I found a realistic lab 430 on the curb not long ago. It's from 1985, and is a direct drive automatic turntable. It was likely thrown away because a single screw on the inside came loose, preventing it from working entirely. I bought a stylus for the R47XT cartridge, a preamp, fixed the one small issue, and cleaned it. It has replaced my modern Pro-jet primary turntable, and months later, I have no plans on going back.

Love the vids, I have the same love and passion to give life back to unwanted items, keep up with the awesome videos for sure ✌️ ❤️ 🎶 😃

Great video, very informative. Shortening and re-forming the spring that holds the idler tire against the spindle can help with the slowing-down during automatic operation problem. Keep up the good work!

Nice job there! It's great to see an old turntable that was considered as just 'ordinary' and nothing special, still working well after a good cleaning, some 30 or 40 years later! :-) I have a lovely old BSR P128R/MP-60 from around 1972 that looks and performs flawlessly after I've spent the last couple of years tinkering here and there with it, and just doing little extra bits to it! It too is running a vintage and period Shure M75-6 cartridge with conical stylus, and it sounds incredible (even compared with modern turntables (Rega RP1, AT-120USB, Pro-ject Primary), and another vintage favourite of mine; a Technics SL-QX200 quartz direct drive. I'll always have a place in my life for a good vintage Garrard or BSR turntable... hey, they were in the music centres of my childhood back then, and even when fitted with ceramic cartridges, they sounded good (because the manufacturers knew how to impedance-match back then!!), and so it's wonderful for me to still see and use some of these classic old turntables from my youth (which 'audiophile' people derided back then!), and yet you find that those decks are still going strong today, if they've been looked after, and can actually sound better than many back then (and still today-based on old 'urban' legends) would ever believe! :-)

Wow! I bet that record player was happy you came along!

...Very good!...Ahh Pete Townshend...and the copy-write police didn't come after U...I love it! 😎

Great video! Really enjoyed watching it!

If this is from 1979, this must be one of the last UK-made Garrard changers. I think earlier Zenith changers/turntables were Voice of Music designs.

Awesome, I love old turntables.

the introduction description was spot on what i had in my head when i started the video.

Automatic function, decent stylus, 2 tracking force adjustments... nice find. Good music choice, one of my favorites.

great work vwesstlife.also l love me some maria muldar.and yep,your a very great qualified service personel...one mans trash,another mans treasure. great luck in your furture too.

...one person's junque is another's treasure...i'm jealous...…...great find!!!.....

God I had that mixer when I was a kid ... thanks for the video

Awesome save, Great work 👏.

Nice work. usually when I find the problem of the idle wheel I use a small dremel adapted to a lathe, I turn the wheel and with a small blade or sandpaper on its diameter, I remove some material until it has a "

Really enjoyed the video ,thank you.

I picked up a Fisher 230-XA at a goodwill, it is visually and very mechanically similar. the drive system is identical to this one. I also have the same issue you had with it making a bit of noise. Mine has a Pickering V15/AT-2 cartridge, which is apparently the same exact thing as a Stanton 500. I got a new Kyoma stylus for it, for my first turntable and it being under 5$ it sounds amazing!

You did a great job. I've done two videos showing people how to restore their dust covers. Lots of people viewed. Sadly that tells me lots have bad covers.😬

You just inspired me to finally work on my Zenith Micro-Touch changer. I'm still waiting on a new stylus, but at least I seem to have the changer mechanism working now!

Great find. Great vid.

Thats really great man.l had a garrard just like it back in H.S. Stackable as well... great find..

That cricket in the background convinced me there was a cricket in my house for a good minute

Beautiful restoration job!

Old record players are the best! Good strong powerful motors that basically never die. My 60s RCA Victor Garrard changer model VS-14 has such a good motor in it. I’ve stacked like 6 78s and that didn’t faze it. Although i don’t wanna test how much it can handle cuz I don’t want to wreck the motor. Mines the suitecase style and the speakers in those changers sound f*cking fantastic. Speakers today don’t have that clear sound like the old speakers do. Thanks for this vid btw good save with that record player. Looks really nice!

Well done.I.m very slowly doing up an AWA-Thorn rim drive.Trawled through 100s of pictures to find it. Sent the idler wheel off to Russell Industries in NY for rebuilding.Lovely people.Thanks.

wow it's tha best free soundin' record player i've ever herd so far :P

Sounds Awesome... I remember Zenith from when I was a teenager ... they were always a solid brand, and that had been in the "proof" for at least over twenty years (?), but nobody ever wanted to admit it, for some strange reason. Maybe the word "Zenith" didn't sound "cool" or "good enough?". Maybe people still weren't ready yet, for that horizon? (heh-heh), They were always of solid and reputable quality products, and which were fairly and reasonably priced, from what I can remember. Great Job! Kudos to you Sir!!

There is no way to repair a hardened idler wheel, other than what you did, and that will be temporary. I have even tried buying the extremely expensive rubber renew stuff, (which smells mostly like xylene, a common aggressive solvent)...it works for a short time, but fails in the end. The only answer is to buy new rubber... a new rebuilt idler wheel with new soft rubber. Btw, Duel turntables from the very early 1970's often still work because of whatever rubber they used on their idler wheels is still somewhat supple, even after decades.

Come for the turntable restoration, stay for the Steely Dan cover band music.

No doubt about it. I had these models in times past. It may have read ZENITH for their STEREO units, but that was a GERRARD. Many were sold in the United States under many names such as Lloyds GERRARD. What annoyed me with them when the record was finished the tone arm instead of going back to its rest stand it kept on going back to the 💽 disc. The stack record overarm was not adjusted mechanically correct, which made this happen when i had them. Only one model GERRARD I had that was successful in those days that didn't have that defect. Otherwise not a bad model it had a metal platter very fancy. Very nice clean up & Good video.. 🎥💽✅👍

Wow! Great job!

VWestlife, nice trash find. Clever idea with the rubber band around the idler wheel. Once rubber dries out, the chemical remedies only last for a short time. It's good that there is a place that you can get a replacement idler wheel.

Automotive brake fluid used to be used as a shade tree trick to swell and soften rubber seals, in an engine (wouldn't recommend that). It definitely softens rubber, but it takes some time to work. It will also strip paint. Though not after 30 minutes. It takes a while to work, but it does.

Nice video. Thank You. I always use test reference material that I am very familiar with.

That's a decent tonearm.... Good find.

Very nice. What a find, I wish people in my neighborhood threw out stuff like this lol. Anyway cool video.

Nice find!

Cool. Good work!

... enjoyable video 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

I thought I have seen most of your videos…Bonus to find one recommended to me from 5 years ago that I haven’t watched!

Looks and sounds good!

Nice find! Lucky you.

I hope you bought it back to life !

Wow, I am really early. Also, great video! I enjoy looking at what people set out for trash delivery. :)

Some hardware shops sell loose O-rings and you can choose the best diameter for your needs...possibly even to rescue something like this idler wheel. Brilliant repair tho. Nice job....

Excellent video, for the clear cover you can try to use CD polish paste. Used it once on a helmet visor and it worked surprisingly well.

Hey bro... Happy 2022 to you from my humble country Philippines. We love your videos especially the phono ones! Keep safe as we do the same.

You have to take the phono motor apart degrease it and clean all old grease off the shafts and bearings and lube them with zoom spout oil or Motorkote hyper lubricant which will never gum up. Also clean the inner rim of the platter to help get more torque from the idler wheel

I just bought the MC9035 from a resale store today.Looking forward to hooking it up tonight. Paid $8.00

I love the Lakewood mini box fans! I have a KMart K14X cooling me off as I write this.

Love trash picker day. Found a working smart tv on one of those days.

Two things, isopropyl alcohol is the best solution to clean the old rubber residue off the motor's pulley, just don't let it get into the motor from the shaft. And also clean the inside rim of the platter where the idler contacts but don't remove the finish that supplies drive adhesion. Tried servicing a BSR once and could not correct the squeaking, but realized the tack finish was worn off completely. Realized later that if I had re-coated that rim with the correct tack it would have solved the issue. Good Luck.

That's a pretty good record changer. After Zenith gave up its in-house changer for their Micro-Touch 2G tonearm in 1969, Zenith went on to make changers for BSR and Garrard instead of the Zenith name.

nice sound for a road rescue. hey , i got that same mixer , except 1 of the stereo channels was fried by the prior owner.

Such an amazing find and you always dish out great videos. Your collection keeps growing more amazing each day and your such an inspiration too all collectors around the globe. 🎃

Good stuff. Thanks!

Outstanding!

Nice FREE project!

Has a really good sound

Also Anti skating is not related to the weight. Or well, it is, but not directly. Setting it to two grams is as good as anything else. The proper way to do anti skating is using a test record and an oscilloscope, but a neat little trick to get it 'quite allright' is to drop the stylus on the beginning of the record a few times and see what it does. If it skids inside every now and then, anti skating is too low. If it seems to be 'searching' for the first groove to fall in to, it's too high. Definitely not a scientific method but it gets you somewhat close to the desired anti skating.

A true labor of love !!!

Fantastic!

omg those 70s records were so corny. thanks k tel! i just got one of those turntables on ebay. i am anxious to see how it performs

sweet find!

You can make the dust cover look like new by using a car light lens restore. Works very well : )

Nice find and fix. I have an old Kmart record player which still works, Just got a new needle for it. I need to find a good preamp. I have the tiny radioshack amp, actually two, but they are mono. I'm going to try those one on each channel as a temporary method. Lots of good tunes on that greatest hits record, save that one.

You got the Magnet Cartridge Preamp too. Nice.

Very good sound

Yeah, it looks like those TVs that shango066 picked from the abandoned houses.

What I've found that works wonderfully - in most cases - is a broccoli rubber band. Since it's usually much smaller in diameter than the idler, it will wrap around the top and bottom of the idler. In some instances there won't be enough clearance on the bottom part of the idler on the motor shaft, and the broccoli rubber band will rub on that higher speed which sits below the idler [not an issue on single-speed machines]. Trimming it down takes care of that. YMMV.

I have an idler wheel table that I got for $1. I had it going good for a while. I have to figure some things out with the tone arm wires. They are so fine that they just break when I try to re solder them when I recently went at it trying to get it going again. It had a bit of a problem wanting to spin at correct speed. I had a can of belt dressing and sprayed a little bit on the edges of the idler wheel and that fixed it immediately.

I have all three songs, on a blank 90 minute tape, that you just played !!

If memory serves me correctly, all of those early wheel driven turntables had that problem of slowing down as the automatic mechanism engaged. Sometimes it could be helped by taking alcohol and wiping the inside edge of the platter itself to clear up minor film buildup but most of the time it was just the power of the motor.

i have a bsr mechanical record player with the same type of mechanics sytem, i have totaly repared this issue, with a total clean and oiling all part