The refurbishment of my Pioneer PL-6A is almost complete. So far stripped, oiled and painted, new genuine stylus, new dust cover. She's looking lovely in my eyes, (sounding pretty good as well) but I'm battling with the tonearm elevation damper. This is a pretty common problem with tables seems like, but there's nothing much specific to the PL-6A on the web.
The manual says: "When the arm lowering system operates too rapidly, the grease provided with the PL-6A should be fed to the cylinder section of the arm elevation system in the following manner. When observing the arm elevation system from below, a cylinder with a grooved cap will be seen. This cap is removed with a coin or a large screw-driver, and the grease applied to the felt attached to the inner rod."
We stripped the mechanism and I packed the little brass damper with grease, but that didn't help. This cylinder doesn't have the grooved cap, probably a different model. The main problem seems to be the lack of felt they mention. This one is just an inner rod, no felt.
Anyone with experience on the PL-6A?
Some pics will follow...
The manual says: "When the arm lowering system operates too rapidly, the grease provided with the PL-6A should be fed to the cylinder section of the arm elevation system in the following manner. When observing the arm elevation system from below, a cylinder with a grooved cap will be seen. This cap is removed with a coin or a large screw-driver, and the grease applied to the felt attached to the inner rod."
We stripped the mechanism and I packed the little brass damper with grease, but that didn't help. This cylinder doesn't have the grooved cap, probably a different model. The main problem seems to be the lack of felt they mention. This one is just an inner rod, no felt.
Anyone with experience on the PL-6A?
Some pics will follow...
