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840AM Classic Country on this 1961 Silvertone 2222a radio. I tweaked the trimmers/IF slugs and it woke right up and is hot AF. It ought to be with its 8 transistors, RF stage, 3 gang banana slicer, and ferrite bar antenna....

Wha? I thought Fuji pulled the plug on FP-3000b back in 2015.....

Oooof glad I'm not shopping for a TV right now

Interesting that an inline HDMI audio extractor wouldn't work. I have one that I used with a projector for many years, kinda flaky but it did the trick. Does the TV have a digital out? HDMI ARC? I switched back to a direct view TV and am using its optical digital audio out and a DAC (basically)

I've seen the tape cleaners for video tapes (1/2") i didn't know they had em for audio cassettes. I was researching video tape transfer methods a couple years ago and learned some neat tricks

That's the Papst

Yep. "H" stands for Hysteresis motor aka Papst.

This guy here, should have a 4 uf phase shift capacitor

Yep the Papst, So technically its an B-12H, I added it later, it originally came with the round induction motor. The Papst runs a little fast.

Mocked up with the RB300 for testing. Sounds pretty good like this. I jumped on an Audiocraft AC-400C oil dampened unipivot tonearm. Should be here from Japan mid month

Joe was right. Kinda hard to see but that AC is not okay.....

Belt drive Reks are single speed, also Idler drives have a sound of their own.

If you really hate yourself get an idler drive motor unit (rek o kut, Russco but forget Garrard) and a separate tonearm. Or a Technics SP-10/15/25 and separate tonearm. You'll have to come up with a plinth. If you get a Rek avoid the General Industries death cube motor, you'll never get rid of...

Yeah i was gonna check the waveform before plugging the motor in. Maybe just need a smaller diameter capstan.

Okay the VFD might be a dead end, it was advertised as being for 120 volts but won't run on that, gonna plug it into 240 later for the lulz. I figured out the arm board, had to notch out. not real square but close enough. 60 mil roofing EPDM for decoupling.

I'm also considering a SAEC WE-308L arm, should be 265mm spindle to pivot distance. We'll see if that lines up, I shoulda put the motor unit closer to the right hand side. I guess I could notch out the plinth some more for a longer arm board lol

So the Benchmarks aren't the benchmark anymore?

I may look into that, the original plan was to just have long bolts thru the arm board into the plinth. My ability to make things square/level/straight isn't great.....

I'm not sure yet, I had to re glue last night, didn't sand off the finish where I glued it, it came apart....d'oh. I also screwed up the arm board. Once I have the arm board fixed I'll probably put the RB300 back on it to check for rumble. Obviously I don't need the arm board to mount a 9" arm...

Shot of the acacia strips between the cutting boards