How to Lubricate the Technics SL-D3 or Any Direct Drive Turntable / Record Player 

Thanks! Glad it helped you out.

You’re welcome!

You’re welcome! Thanks for watching!

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The Japanese say "Tekeneeksa"....Technics is an english translation of a Japanese word...Not every word is pronounced phonetically as seen...I've been around 55 years and I've only known one person to pronounce it teckniks.

If you were to listen to Technics commercials you would disagree with your own comment. tek NEEKS.

Is there any video around youtube showing this procedure?

@@MARTIN201199 Search for ViperFrank. Not the slickest presentations but he knows what he is doing. Another little tip (if you have one from the SL12xx series) is to get an aftermarket thrustpad from Kabusa.

Sorry I don’t. Let me do some research!

With regards to the pitch , you have to remove it from the PCB . You have to remove the base of the turntable. It needs to be desoldered . Once inside the slider you have to clean the brushes and regrease the tracks underneath. It's easier to just buy a new slider they aren't expensive.

@@djx-ray1876 Thanks, yeah., I won't mess with de-soldering the base from the main board. The pitch works so, I won't mess with it., Thanks for the reply!

@@randysookoo444 No probs mate - just to add though, it isn't on the main board it's a separate PCB at the bottom and easy to desolder and fit a new one . You can buy a pitch slider already fitted on a PCB but it's much more expensive . Anyway , glad your pitch is ok but if it starts feeling scratchy and not as smooth (depending on age) it's a simple fix 👍

@@djx-ray1876 Ok, thanks again for the help! My 1210s are more than 20 years old but, the pitch sliders are okay., I’ll be sure to reach out if they become a problem. Thanks again for the help!

You’re welcome! Thanks for watching.

Andy you are a treasure.

Sewing machine oil would work? Are you sure?

@@MARTIN201199 yup thats what I use, make sure its a good 3 in 1

@@420_LoganI've found 3in1 brand oil gets gummy. I'd use sewing machine oil, Hoppes gun oil, or Sturmey Archer bicycle hub oil instead.

im_a_ yes A

I've had it 13 years and it is great.

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@@StillSpinning3, Thank you

Thank you!

Jerod Carbonneau you can get the oil on eBay. A good synthetic oil is good.

That's odd. Hopefully it gets better!

Service manual available for free on the site below: www.vinylengine.com/library/technics/sl-d3.shtml

+Ricardo Rowland Gracias!

It’s very possible. Does the platter appear to be spinning appropriately despite the noise?

@@StillSpinning3 yes it's spinning at the proper speed

Well if it’s spinning okay and it doesn’t seem to be disrupted other than the sound, yeah this might help.

@@StillSpinning3 bad news. I bought the lubricant and tried it but it did not seem to resolve the issue. This is an SL-Q200 I’m talking about. I disassembled the entire thing just to get to the motor assembly and I found some plastic between the metal and the circuit board. I couldn’t tell if the plastic was originally there, and I thought that could definitely cause some static noise, but I couldn’t seem to open up the motor assembly without breaking it.

Oh no! When you say plastic do you mean you found broken plastic pieces?

The intro of my RU-vid videos has my tonearm auto playing the album. Is your tonearm lower than mine?

Yeah I replaced it with a cork mat.

Still Spinning get yourself an achromat by funk firm, is the only mat you need? doesn't matter what price of turntable you've got Really the bottom of the bearing is not getting any oil but really Grease is better lithium thick white grease or graphite.

Yeah it should.

@@StillSpinning3 I purchased one

www.turntablelab.com/products/pro-ject-lube-it-silent-groove-oil-for-turntable-bearings

I'm using a Shure M97xe cartridge.

Still Spinning do yourself a favour and get a Nagaoka mp 150 phono cartridge if you can stretch to the mp 200 even better. They supply it with its own headshell as well go with the pre-assembled with its own headshell. Or replace that headshell with a Auto technica. Don't forget to oil your bearings on your tonearm as well and on the motor.

I’ve never heard anyone use this so I really can’t answer that.

WD-40 is not a lubricant.

Isaac Temple the high-end turntable manufacturers use 80 gearbox oil, you should grease the bottom of the Burning not oil? with thick white lithium grease mix in powdered graphite one to one or two to one greece.

I think I need to make a channel t-shirt that says “Lube Your Spindle”

Yeah I'd say you are due :)

I followed the instructions of the service manual for my unit.

@@StillSpinning3aaaa okey! Perfect 👌🏻 bro

Whoa

I will create a terrible manicure video to explain.

@@StillSpinning3yes please

lamusicanuncamuere Let me look at mine. I'll get back to you.

thank you haha

lamusicanuncamuere To level the platter, the feet are not adjustable. What I do is cut some 3 x 5 index cards in half, and I put the appropriate number taped together under the feet needed. Are use one of those small plastic line levels that you can get at your hardware store. It’s about 2 inches long. Set it in the center of the platter and check for level both directions, from left to right, from back to front. And put the appropriate number of cards under the feet to get your platter level in both directions. When you were satisfied with the number of cards needed, I taped them together to make them as one unit so they won’t slide around separately.

Come on don’t knock my Texas accent and how i pronounce Techniques 😉

Come on don’t knock my Texas accent and how i pronounce Techniques 😉

The only people who pronounce it Tekniks are millennials who weren't even born when this turntable was made,and the British,who can't speak proper English anyway....Throughout the 70s and 80s radio advertisements pronounced it Tekneeks.

@@chipper2462 that’s one of the most absurd comment I read in RU-vid, when you said British, you also included English, aside from Welsh, Scottish, and northern Irish. ENGLISH PEOPLE are the one who invented English language, so this means they are the ones who should pronounced the English words right, and that’s right. Peace!!!

@@redbishop71 It's a Japanese word translated into English...The English didn't invent the word...Dum dum