Turntable Spindle repair 

Side note: acceptable lubrication for this repair, oil. Whether it be sewing machine oil, 3-in-1, mineral oil or even 5W-30. Just apply it sparingly onto the spindle and place it back into the brass piece. Don't use silicone grease! Be nice to one another in the comments folks!

Hey thanks for this video! Recently got myself a JVC JL-A20 and the spindle was absolutely stuck, couldn't even spin it. Took me an hour or so of trying to pull it out after heating and applying degreaser to the screw hole. I wouldn't have known pulling out the spindle would be so easy like the video, it definitely helped me persevere on my own unit. Now I'm just waiting on the belt and cartridge to come in, in the meantime I guess playing around with a free spinning spindle will do lmao

Mine stopped working the other day, found the belt had stretched out. But your video helped me with the spindle. Probably never removed since the factory. It was a fight to get it separated! But now it's clean and lubed, the platter spins super nice. Just waiting for the new belt.

Hi Davey, thanks for putting this up. I bought my deck in Japan in 1971 when I was in the British merchant navy. marvelous piece of kit. However, it was put away in the attic in about 1992 along with the Sansui AU 666 amp, Akai X200D tape deck, Sansui SP1200 speakers and Sony TC 127 cassette deck. finally got them all out and fixed up and guess what, they all work great except for the record deck. Yes the spindle has seized. I undid the nut as per the video, however, the nut will not allow the tapered part of the spindle to pass through as it is of too small a diameter. I do not understand this. as on the video it just falls through. Any comment on what I can do would be most appreciated.

Thank you! My Teac turntable started to rotate slowly, ~25 rpm instead of 33 rpm. I changed the rubber belt, but it didn't help. Turned out it was the spindle. When I opened it, the greese (lubricant) was sticky. I removed it with some dish soap and applied new lubricant, and now it's 33 rpm! Yoohooo!!!

Thank you! My Crosley C62 was constantly making a rocking/clicking noise and eliminating all elements to diagnose the noise it was the sticky residue from the spindle. A quick clean solved all the problems which were driving me nuts!

Davey - Thanks for this repair video. I have an old Sansui SR-212 that was I'm bringing back to life. This has an auto return mechanism with a gear on the spindle, which caused a bit of challenge with replacing the set screw. But - back together and so far so good. Also the bottom cover was stapled, so took a while to get it off. Replaced the staples with wood screws. Again, thanks.

Awesome video. Jusr what I needed and exactly what my problem is. Any idea where I can get a replacement? Mine is completely seized up. Thanks.

Thanks for the post. Mine was doing the exact same thing, and this solved my problem. I love this turntable, and never want another. It's so basic, and it looks awesome. Thanks

Nice turn table. It's one repair I've never had to do.

You need a Rubber Platter Mat

Thank you.