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Honestly, I'm to the same point with these old machines that I am at with my classic cars. Just go through- EVERYTHING- once and be done with it for the next 100 years.

As for resealing a metal horn- solder and a small butane torch is the ticket. Wear a respirator.

Thanks to everybody for the suggestions. When I feel like getting my hands dirty again I'll pull the changer and adjust the tone arm like Sean said. The horn seems to be in pretty nice shape so I'm not too concerned that anything is majorly wrong, but it is possible I've got leaks there as well. I'll update everyone when I get it done. At the present time, it does have a sharper sound than my credenza, but the credenza has much more bass. This is with the same reproducer.

I worked on all the seals and it sounds much better now. The changer, well that’s still a work in progress, but the machine sounds great now. All I did was apply grease to all the tone arm seals and it was good as new. Thanks everyone for the guidance!