Pioneer PL-7E idler - They're Stacking Up Now! My Next, Next Project

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Thanks Colin!

Well, Sarge laid claim to this one this afternoon. She really likes it.
She's in there clearing out space for it right now.
She has a nice little compact stereo system in the bedroom (phillips class d t-amp, little electrostatic speakers, cute little sub, solid rosewood veneer speakers, multi-binding posts, $150 at Costco); but it doesn't have any sort of phono-stage into it, just an aux. input. So, I just ordered an Audio Technica preamp for it at needledoctor. Its on closeout for $44. So, I'm going to use that to get us into the bedroom system.
Its really interesting to hear the transition of the old Shure M44-7 that came with it, which has been dormant for a while. At first it was stiff as all heck, and has loosened up considerably throughout the day.
The arm mods seem to be holding well - no error anomalies. Yea,.. good old garage retro-engineering worked.

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Gene,

thanks.
this has proven to be a good fix to the arm bearing issue, so far.
I've been spinning it all afternoon. Right now, I'm spinning a baroque recorder ensemble lp, and Sarge is flitting all over the room; that can't be a bad thing.

oh yeah,... the headshell - what a friggin mess of incorrect wiring. At least they made sure that each tap had a wire going to it, and none were left without something on it.

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Somewhere around the time that turntable was built, the color coding of the headshell wiring got changed to its current white/blue, red/green.  Prior to that there were several different schemes.  That kind of thing could get very confusing!