Recent content by vince666

Welcome to Phoenix, Chris :)

Happy Easter to all of you guys

This is one of my own very favourite movies ever! Watched it back in mid 80s and, then, again and again and again.... And he is one of my favourite actors. R.I.P. Val. Anyways, I think "Top Secret" is far better humour than "Naked Gun" or "Airplane".... basicly, the two movies I do consider the...

Ah, sure, we all have also some specific music records which are good for testing. Here, as a tracking test (but it's not too bad to also set antiskating) , I use the 7 inches of this italian press of a famous early 80s song which was mastered/cut in a way that's definitely difficult to...

being that one tuneable, it's nice when you can adjust the resonant frequency just in the sweet spot with your cartridge of choice. yes, there are also other test records which are good to measure resonance, i own a Shure Era V test record which can do that as well but in the end I often go with...

interesting tonearm system! They used to include a suitable test record with that turntable, which is just great to measure resonant frequency of tonearm/cartridge combo. I own that same kind of Test record which does also exist as a standalone test record where only side A is the exact same...

First off, sorry if this isn't the right forum section to post this kind of request... if needed, please, move it where it belongs. There is a good friend of mine, here in Italy, who has an Alpine AL-90 cassette deck with broken needle meters. He asked me if I know anybody who repairs such...

exactly so

i am using the blue kind or erasing rubber, which is more abrasive than the others and cleans just so easily

indeed eraser rubber is what I use to clean the contacts of the switches quickly and easily and it works a lot better than alcohol.

realigning properly is another point I didn't mention (or that I had taken for granted)... anyways, if the head has the simple 2 screws plate where one screw is fixed and only the azimuth screw is spring loaded, the head height and tilt angle are just automatic and, since the holes on the head...

@J!m : Here at this post, you can see that same kind of yellow corrosion/oxide on the sendust head of my own Telefunken TC750 which I've lapped and now works just like new... there is a before/after picture...

that's corrosion/oxide too... i've seen it more times and I guess certain alloys used to make heads produce that kind of yellow oxide, rather than the good old classic red rust. unfortunately, I doubt cleaning with any kind of solvent would remove it... usually, I've solved by lapping the head...

of course, Nando meant Sacco with the o... but your teacher's name isn't new to me... surely I heard it there at the University in Cosenza, even if I wasn't doing your same kind of studies but mechanical engineering... anyways, I definitely heard his name, several times too. At M.E. we had only...

a hystorical side note about the ancient Greek... Calabria, Sicily, Puglia and Campania regions have lots of towns founded by the Greek starting about 3000 years ago. Also Vibo is a Greek town, with ancient name of Hipponion. And there was also Terina, located somewhere inside the Lamezia Terme...