Author Archives: Mickey Cummins

Busy Week It’s been a busy week. I pulled the SMC3 mechanism, dis-assembled it in a little over an hour, and washed it with Oil Eater and a toothbrush. I removed the tonearm assembly as well. The whole mech looked greasy and dirty .They’re usually the ones that clean up best and this one wasContinue reading “April 20, 2024”

I got back on the SMC1 mechanism very carefully cleaning and adjusting the vertical stack of switches and the two horizontal stack switches. Not much improvement. I decided to pull the tonearm assembly and see if anything was sticky, perhaps delaying the right/left switching. I carefully lubricated it and operated it by hand once pulledContinue reading “April 14, 2024”