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Hi,

I got to longing for some of my old LPs, especially those that were
never reissued on CDs. I dug out my old Pioneer PL-X100 linear
turntable. It's been sitting on a shelf in the garage for 10 years or
more. I've got a battery operated pre-amp that seems to work pretty
well.

It works, except... The mechanism that moves the pickup across the LP
seemed slow and balky, and eventually got stuck.

It looks like the lubricant got thick and sticky. I don't know what it
is. Silicone, maybe. It looks like some of it dripped off the
mechanical parts and oozed onto the the underside of the lid.

I reached inside as best I could and tried to clean up the mess with
WD-40. It seemed to dissolve the old sticky stuff, but the mechanism is
still slow and gets stuck at times. It appears that the drive motor and
belt or cable are okay. Seems like the sticky stuff is the problem.
There's probably more sticky stuff in places I can't reach.

I'd disassemble the turntable to clean it up more, but it looks like
the upper part doesn't come apart. It looks like the dust cover is
connected to rest of the the lid with plastic rivets. The dust cover
prevents access to the sticky mechanism. I'm thinking about drilling
out the rivets in an attempt to get inside.

Suggestions?

Thanks in advance,


Tim