Everything is cleaned, polished, rebuilt and lubricated on my Sonora wind-up phonograph and I’ve started putting it back together. I took lots of pictures during disassembly, but apparently not enough. I knew there were three fabric washers that fit between the top of the motor chassis and the bottom of the motorboard, but I have three ADDITIONAL washers I don’t remember!
The first three (on the left in the picture) are thinner and have dried glue on one side that corresponds to dried glue marks around the three screw holes on the motor chassis. The second three are thicker and I can’t figure out what else would vibration protection- maybe underneath the base of the tone arm? Or stacked together with the other washers? The holes on the motorboard where the motor mounting screws go, have marks the same size as the screws’ flat washers, so I don’t see how they could go on the motorboard under the platter.
Ready to reassemble my Sonora portable, but where do these washers go?
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Re: Ready to reassemble my Sonora portable, but where do these washers go?
I would guess that they stack. If it were mine, I would check where the brake makes contact with the turntable, if there's plenty of extra room I would go with stacking.
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Re: Ready to reassemble my Sonora portable, but where do these washers go?
One on the top and underside of the motorboard at each mounting screw- for isolating motor noise.
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