Update pg3 motor out. My first machine. Need advice and help!

[Curt A]

The wood (quarter sawn oak) in your cabinet is beautiful. You may not need to change the spring - it may have just unhooked, an examination will tell. Sourcing a tonearm and reproducer should be easy. Once you find the parts, re-lube the motor and replace the reproducer gaskets, you are good to go. A worthy project with great provenance... Have fun and good luck.

Curt

[JasonK94Z]

The wood (quarter sawn oak) in your cabinet is beautiful. You may not need to change the spring - it may have just unhooked, an examination will tell. Sourcing a tonearm and reproducer should be easy. Once you find the parts, re-lube the motor and replace the reproducer gaskets, you are good to go. A worthy project with great provenance... Have fun and good luck.

Curt

Thank you Curt. I’m looking forward to digging into this thing. I’m very excited about this.

[JasonK94Z]

New life furniture masque has been ordered.

I will probably use Howard’s restore-a-finish afterwards (looks close to their walnut color), then go over it with Howard’s feed-n-wax afterwards. This should get the finish back to looking even better.
Will pull the table and motor out this weekend and post pics.

[Curt A]

Where did you find New Life?

[JasonK94Z]

Where did you find New Life?

https://www.ramaxnewlife.com/

[jamiegramo]

Welcome to the forum! It always exciting to have a machine since new in one family. Perhaps you’ll find an old family photograph with the machine in it.

[BigC]

If you take a couple of more pictures and measurements I have a couple of tonearms that look a lot like the one you have. I fixed a couple of mine with JB Weld and a donor base I got from Ebay. It took a while and a lot of experimenting but in the end the are working perfectly now. I was a machinist in the military so fixing things is my way of keeping busy. Anyway just need some pictures and the diameter of the base on top and bottom.

[JasonK94Z]

If you take a couple of more pictures and measurements I have a couple of tonearms that look a lot like the one you have. I fixed a couple of mine with JB Weld and a donor base I got from Ebay. It took a while and a lot of experimenting but in the end the are working perfectly now. I was a machinist in the military so fixing things is my way of keeping busy. Anyway just need some pictures and the diameter of the base on top and bottom.

BigC, thank you! I will get lots of measurements and pictures this evening after work and post them here.

[JasonK94Z]

If you take a couple of more pictures and measurements I have a couple of tonearms that look a lot like the one you have. I fixed a couple of mine with JB Weld and a donor base I got from Ebay. It took a while and a lot of experimenting but in the end the are working perfectly now. I was a machinist in the military so fixing things is my way of keeping busy. Anyway just need some pictures and the diameter of the base on top and bottom.

Here you are. If you need anything else, let me know. Apparently that chunk out of the base of the tone arm is cut internationally. It rides on a tab in the mounting base that acts as a stop. The mounting base itself is missing a web with a hole in the center that that bolt rides in. The web is busted out and gone. It’s not anywhere in the phonograph either.

[BigC]

Here is the only thing I have that would come close to what you have. The reproducer needs to be rebuilt and it had a crack in the elbow that got fixed.