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Looks very nice Those VV-IVs are work horses and extremely well built. Just grease them once in a while and they run fine Tom B

hearsedriver wrote:

CharliePhono wrote:Great job, HD. What did you use to clean and reattach the turntable felt?

I just sprayed it with Spray & wash, let it soak for 20 minutes, and rinsed with hot water in the sink. I did it with the felt still attached to the platter.I set the platter upside down for the night and peeled the felt off the next morning. After cleaning the platter, I sprayed it with 3M Super 77 Multipurpose adhesive. Let that dry for about 5 minutes and then attach the felt. really pretty simple.

Good tip... It's important to note that the felt was cleaned while still attached to the platter. I did one awhile back and removed the felt before cleaning it... not a good idea. The 10" felt shrunk to about 8" and couldn't be reattached.

So, here is my temporary fix for the missing winding crank until and original can be found. I had a spare late model VV-IV crank on hand that had some damaged threads so, I didnt mind sacrificing it for this repair. I bought a 1" long, 5/16-24 Threaded coupling, drilled and tapped one end to ⅜-24 using a bottoming tap, and installed a 5/16" nut on the winding arbor followed by the modified coupling to lock it in place. I then cut 1 ⅛" off of the crank and threaded it. It works great. Once I find an original crank, I can simply swap them out plus, I'll have an extra crank for the work bench for testing motors.