Garrard 3000 MP4
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Just repaired and restored Vintage Garrard Model 3000 Auto Record Changer. Four Speeds. Has had old oil and grease removed, and relubricated. Idler wheel has been restored. A new magnetic cartridge and stylus has been installed. A new base was made, with walnut stain sides. The deck has been painted flat black. The demo shows that it works very well. Cosmetically in excellent shape
Nice restoration! Marvelous mechanisms. Engineers were geniuses!
These mechanisms that Garrard built after the Type "A" series were the most reliable and easiest to repair. Unfortunately Garrard's idlers did not age well, and most have to be rebuilt, which is very expensive. The contemporay changer brand of "Dual" I have found that most of the idlers even though over 50 years old, can be resurfaced and ready to go for another 20 years or so.
Nice, it’s like the one in my KLH Model Twenty stereo system.
i remember them. mostly in crwam colour
@@dontheoldradioguy7180yes, with turquoise highlights on the headshell.
Question for you - I’ve got two concerns with my Garrard 3000.
1) when the needle gets towards the end of the record, it starts skipping. Happens at the same point on every record. Suggestions?
2) When I click to “auto”, nothing happens. The tone arm doesn’t move at all. Any suggestion for this??
I'm very aware of this problem. You have to tread carefully here. On the auto chang gear there are 2 pawls. They must be carefully disassembled and carefully cleaned and reassembled. Under no circumstance lubricate them. Sometimes you need to carefully burnish the hole that these gears mount on by using some fine emery cloth wound on a screwdriver or drill bit that barely fits the hole. Use some light grade oil then completely clean the debris with q tip and alcohol. Reassemble and try again. Sometimes I've resorted to grinding away some of the surface of the bigger Pawl. Unfortunately these garrard trip assemblies were not designed for light tracking situations. I hope this helps
Hello, Do you know how to change the belt? How to get to it? And what size?
@@ClareRollo there is no belt. It is an idler drive changer. Access to that is accomplished by removing the turntable clip and lifting the platter off.
I have this exact player in my old record console. How did you go about swapping the original ceramic cartridge with a new magnetic one and how did you add the counter weight at the back of the tone arm?
Well it wasn't rocket science, that's for sure. Since magnetic cartridges weigh usually substantially more, a counter weight is necessary. In my case I found an old steel ferrule that with a hole drilled into the back of the tone arm and a bolt and nut to attach, it wasn't much of a problem. The spring tracking pressure adjustment can be adjusted with the aid of a stylus pressure gauge to set it to, in this case it was 3.5 grams. The changer now tracks flawlessly and the trip mechanism works as it should. The only other concern is that the motor should be a 4 pole shaded motor and not a 2 pole. 2 pole motors usually radiate too much ac field and the result is excessive hum in the output. Check online for the difference in how a 2 pole phono motor looks as opposed to a 4 pole motor to figure out which you have. Don't forget that if you change to a magnetic cartridge, you will need to add a preamp
@@dontheoldradioguy7180 Thanks for the quick reply. I appreciate it.
Hello! I too have this model and dont know what needle/stylus it needs it worked perfectly but then tried to change the needle and it doesnt anymore, please help :)
There could be many different cartridges used on this model. You need to have a lose look at the shape of the stylus and go to a stylus supplier like my needle store and find one that looks exactly the same
Hi, Can you please show how you have wired the system? We have the same unit. However we don't know how to set it up.
Send me an emailto donsaudioservice@gmail.com with a picture or 2 and I'll try to help
I have one in a sylvania portable unit. What cartridge did you use? Mine has a disfunctioning astatic 181d.
Sorry for the late reply. My unit has a magnetic cartridge in it. Most of those changers came with ceramic cartridges like the astatic 181. Getting quality replacement ceramic cartridges are getting difficult. Those cheap Chinese cartridges with the red stylus are to be avoided at all costs. They are cheap and poor quality and don't fit the standard 2 hole mounts of ceramic cartridges of yester year
@@dontheoldradioguy7180 I've picked up a turntable with a pickering v15 cart, which I find to be pretty decent with an elliptical stylus. I feel that would go well with this turntable. Your thoughts?
@@andrewdmandru3756 HI. In a word no!. That cartridge is high compliance and meant for tone arms that have better "trackability" The fact that it has an eliptical stylus means it would need anti skating compensation which that Garrard doesn't have. Get a basic mag cartridge, the lowest price one from China would do. It will need to track at about 4 grams, much higher than the pickering.
@@dontheoldradioguy7180 thanks
i have the exact same model but i dont know how to change the stylus
There could have been any number of choices for cartridges for that model. Some were ceramic and some like mine have magnetic cartridge. If you're looking for advice, you'd need to send a close up picture of the cartridge in question
@@dontheoldradioguy7180 i saw the stylus number N50SD needle
@@dontheoldradioguy7180 i think i found it from Amazon thank you Sir
@@bobetization If I'm not mistaken, you lift the tone arm as high as possible, take the stylus by the lp/78 flange twist it gently forward and release it from the brass clip that holds it in place
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