Your video is informative. I had exactly the same problem and instead of free sanding the grooved wheel I took it off and put the armature in my cordless drill and spun it while lightly touching the rubber with sand paper. Made it perfectly round and smooth. Did the trick
Please help me, I’m wondering if I can just replace the whole turntable part with a new one and just connect the rca cables to the console and plug it into an outlet
Can you just throw in a modern turntable? I have this same unit, dead turntable, but it has a plastic power connector and the two RCA's and im unsure if modern record players can drop right into the zenith console box?
I have retro-fitted turntables into other consoles before with minor modification. The tricky part is usually the RCA connection to the receiver - some require the use of an adapter that you may not be able to find (I built an adapter for the Nivico I worked on).
@@MamaGreenEyes29 Thank you for this tip, was having the exact same issue and I thred a small rubber band through the middle part of the stacker spindle and that fixed the issue. Now to figure out why/how to fix the record playing too fast (high pitched).
My guess the reason why that idler wheel had that little gap or cut on the dried-up rubber was due to a kid back in the day was fooling around forcing the platter not to spin while the parents were playing a record and so while the platter was force-stopped by the kid, the motor shaft axle while spinning tore a spot or area of the rubber of the idler wheel causing that annoying 'thump, thump, thump, thump' sound!!!!
