Hi folks,
I'm trying to give a second life to this Toshiba SR 300c which has been in storage for decades. The original belt disintegrated into a gooey mess. (A new one is on the way). The spindle is very difficult to rotate - I suspect the original grease/lubricant has muddied up and needs to be removed and replaced. The problem is there's no immediately obvious way to get the top cover off and get inside the mechanism to give it a good cleaning. It's sitting on a spring base. I removed three small bolts (circled in the image) but that didn't help. The only screws on the bottom of the unit are there to hold the feet in place. So I'm kind of stuck here. There are two tiny little pipes which are labeled as oil intakes (??). I put some 3 in 1 oil in there but that just made a mess and didn't help.
I can't find a service manual for this turntable anywhere. it's a 1973 model and has an attractive wooden base so if it's possible to save it I'd like to try it!
Any advise on how to get this thing apart would be very much appreciated. Any other advise would also be welcome - I don't have any formal training with this sort of repair work so I'm just trying to figure it out one step at a time.
Thanks in advance!
I'm trying to give a second life to this Toshiba SR 300c which has been in storage for decades. The original belt disintegrated into a gooey mess. (A new one is on the way). The spindle is very difficult to rotate - I suspect the original grease/lubricant has muddied up and needs to be removed and replaced. The problem is there's no immediately obvious way to get the top cover off and get inside the mechanism to give it a good cleaning. It's sitting on a spring base. I removed three small bolts (circled in the image) but that didn't help. The only screws on the bottom of the unit are there to hold the feet in place. So I'm kind of stuck here. There are two tiny little pipes which are labeled as oil intakes (??). I put some 3 in 1 oil in there but that just made a mess and didn't help.
I can't find a service manual for this turntable anywhere. it's a 1973 model and has an attractive wooden base so if it's possible to save it I'd like to try it!
Any advise on how to get this thing apart would be very much appreciated. Any other advise would also be welcome - I don't have any formal training with this sort of repair work so I'm just trying to figure it out one step at a time.
Thanks in advance!
